1. 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

2. MAD: mutually assured destruction War by Proxy: when two powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.

3.  Cold War divides Europe for 40+ years  Europe split into two armed camps  NATO  Warsaw Pact

4.  Nuclear peril  Both sides produce huge arsenals, including large stockpiles of nuclear wpns  Europe caught in the middle  MAD  “stalemate”

5.  War by proxy  We can’t fight, let’s each get our friends to fight  Korean war  Vietnam  Afghanistan  El Salvador

6.  Chess  A model for political and military confrontation  Soviets adopt chess as “mental gymnastics”

7.  Soviet communism and chess linked  Invest millions into developing a world class chess program  Produce dozens of “grandmasters”

8.  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?