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Europe, The Cold War, and Chess Warsaw Pact: Soviet Union’s Cold War military alliance. Included Soviet Union and it’s seven satellite states. NATO: U.S. Canada, and nine Western European countries. Formed a military alliance- North Atlantic Treaty Org. Détente: relaxation of tensions
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MAD: mutually assured destruction War by Proxy: when two powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.
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Cold War divides Europe for 40+ years Europe split into two armed camps NATO Warsaw Pact
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Nuclear peril Both sides produce huge arsenals, including large stockpiles of nuclear wpns Europe caught in the middle MAD “stalemate”
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War by proxy We can’t fight, let’s each get our friends to fight Korean war Vietnam Afghanistan El Salvador
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Chess A model for political and military confrontation Soviets adopt chess as “mental gymnastics”
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Soviet communism and chess linked Invest millions into developing a world class chess program Produce dozens of “grandmasters”
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East v. West B. Spassky v. B. Fischer 1972, “Match of the Century” Two meet in Iceland Fischer wins, strikes a psychological blow against communism Is this the beginning of the end?
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