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09/21/2011

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Cold War
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The struggle for power between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Iron Curtain
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A term used by Winston Churchill to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states.
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Containment
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Fundamental U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War in which the U.S. tried to contain Communism by preventing it from spreading to other countries.
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George F. Kennan
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formulated the policy of containment.
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Truman Doctrine
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Was a policy set on March 12, 1947 stating the US would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid.
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Marshall Plan
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Was the large-scale American Program to aid Europe where US gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism
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Berlin Airlift
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Was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first resulting in casualties.
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NATO
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Landmark of the start of Cold War.
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The Warsaw Pact
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It established a mutual-defense organization, a military alliance intended as a counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Satellite Nation
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An independent nation effectively dominated by another.
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Détente
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The relaxing of tension between the superpowers.
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Arms Race (Nuclear)
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Massive military build-up, especially of nuclear weapons, by both the Soviet Union and the United States in an effort to gain military superiority.
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ABMT
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was a treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile.
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NPT
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was concern for the safety of a world with many nuclear weapon states.
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SALT I and SALT II
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Amidst the Cold War, a series of treaties was issued under the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty to curtail the build up of nuclear weapons.
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2nd Red Scare
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was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society or infiltrating the federal government, or both.
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George C. Marshall
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was a powerful American military leader during World War II and the early Cold War.
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Harry S Truman
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Truman, who had been vice president for just 82 days before FDR's sudden death, inherited the monumental task of leading the United States through the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
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Joseph Stalin
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is arguably the most influential person who affected the Cold War.
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Winston Churchill
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He gave the speech about the "Iron Curtain".
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