Exercise 6. Fill in the words from the list and then make sentences using the completed phrases.
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Exercise 5. Are the following statements true or false?
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1. Confrontation through détente is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the Korean War in 1953.
2. In response to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, US President Jimmy Carter announced a US boycott of the Summer Olympic Games (1980).
3. After a series of revolutions in Soviet Bloc states, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990.
4. The United States forged NATO, a military alliance using containment of communism as a main strategy through the Truman Doctrine, in 1949, while the Soviet bloc formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955.
5. The post-war recovery of Western Europe was facilitated by the United States “Truman Doctrine”, while the Soviet Union, waryof the conditions attached, declined and set up COMECON with its Eastern allies.
6. In the 1980s, the United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures on the Soviet Union, which was suffering from the economic stagnation.
7. The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it occupied, maintaining these as satellite states.
8. To alleviate the risk of a potential nuclear war, both sides sought détente in the 1980s to relievepolitical tensions.
a) communism,b)confrontation,c)containment,d)differences,e)forged,f)military,g)Missile,h)Movement,i)perestroika and glasnost,j)races,k)recovery,l)rivalry,m)satellite,n)stagnation,o)technological,p)tensions
| 1. a …………at sports events 2. economic and political ….. 3. nuclear arms …………….. 4. ………….states and allies 5. …………….competitions 6. the ………through détente 7. the containment of ………. 8. the …..through the Korean War | 
| 9. the Cuban ………….Crisis 10. the dominant ……..power 11. the economic……………. 12. the liberalizing reforms of …………………………. 13. the Non-Aligned ……….. 14. the post-war …………….. 15. the USA …………NATO 16. to relieve political ……… |