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* * * Espionage: CIA, KGB, covert military ops Cold War Strategies The United States, the Soviet Union, and, in some cases, China, used a variety of techniques to gain influence in the Third World. (See feature on next page.) They backed wars of revolution, liberation, or counterrevolution. The U.S. and Soviet intelligence agencies—the CIA and the KGB—engaged in various covert, or secret, activities, ranging from spying to assassination attempts. The United States also gave military aid, built schools, set up programs to combat poverty, and sent volunteer workers to many developing nations. The Soviets offered military and technical assistance, mainly to India and Egypt. * * * Essential Question: How did the arms race space race escalate the Cold War between the United States the Soviet Union? Warm Up Question: From 1945 to 1991, the USA USSR used a variety of strategies to win the Cold War Truman Doctrine In the early years of the Cold War (1945-1949), the USA used a containment policy to successfully stop the spread of communism in Europe Marshall Plan NATO Berlin Airlift When communism spread to China in 1949, the USA feared the “domino theory” became more aggressive in its efforts to stop communism The USA went to war in Korea to defend South Korea from communism The Soviet Union supplied weapons to the communists in North Korea during the war The type of indirect fight between the USA USSR is called a “proxy war” From 1949 to 1970, the Cold War escalated as a result of a nuclear arms race, space race, espionage The U.S. monopoly on nuclear weapons ended in 1949 when the USSR successfully tested an atomic bomb The Soviet development of the atomic bomb led to a nuclear arms race between the USA USSR In 1952, the USA tested the first hydrogen bomb which is 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb The Soviet Union responded by detonating its own hydrogen bomb in 1953 By 1959, both the USA USSR developed rockets called intercont