Module #7 Review

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Communist governments in Eastern Europe and the USSR collapsed resulting in a lessening of tensions between the US and the USSR

Americans feared that the Soviet Union hoped to spread communism all over the world, overthrowing both democratic and capitalist institutions as it went.

A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country.

The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

The U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism. The US had to use military and non military actions to stop the spread.

The competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union for supremacy in nuclear warfare. Both countries tried to have the largest nuclear arsenals.

The United States and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War were considered...