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Perestroika
A political movement for reformation within the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Associated with Gorbachev's Glasnost reform.
Glasnost
A policy that called for increased openness and
transparency in government institutions and
activities in the Soviet Union.
Warsaw Pact
Sputnik
Hydrogen Bomb
The explosion of an atomic bomb by the Soviet
Union in September 1949 ended the U.S. atomic
monopoly and led to a nuclear arms race. The
development of more powerful weapons such as
the H-bomb and of new methods of delivering
nuclear bombs, such as ballistic missiles, were
primarily a result of the Cold War conflict and
concomitant arms race.
Chernobyl Disaster
SALT I
SALT II
Soviet-Afghan War