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Cold War vocab words
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11th Grade
09/21/2011

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Term
Cold War
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When no weapons were fired from the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
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Iron Curtain
Definition
A term from Winston Churchill. Used about Europe that nothing was getting in or out and it was all behind closed doors.
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Containment
Definition
Keeping something in one place so that it would weaken and die out.
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George F. Kennan
Definition
The man who came up with the containment plan.
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Trumann Doctrine
Definition
U.S. would send aid to any country that helped fight the spread of communist.
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Berlin Airlift
Definition
When Germany had closed off supply routes to Berlin and the U.S. gave them supplies by airplane.
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Arms Race
Definition
To see if America or Soviet Union would build the most and biggest nuclear bombs.
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Harry S. Truman
Definition
The president after Rossevent died and dropped the 2 bombs.
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Joseph Stailn
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He ruler of the Soviet Union.
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Winston Churchill
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The primeminster of England and Britian
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The Marshall Plan
Definition
The U.S. would give aid to the countries of Europe to help them rebuild after world war 2.
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Satellite nation
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A nation that looks independent but is really under some other nations controll.
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Détente
Definition
Pulling troops out of countries to relieve the tentions.
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ABMT
Definition
The guide to controll weapons of mass destroctions??
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NPT
Definition
An aggrement to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
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Salt 1 and Salt 2
Definition
the number of missles the U.S. had and the number of missles the Soviet Uion had.
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2nd red scare
Definition
A time of anticommunist in America
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NATO
Definition
the north atlantic treay organization is the agreement of europe agianst the presived threat of soviet aggrestion
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Warshaw Pact
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This was when many European countries promised to come to each others aid if one of them fell to invading countries.
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George C. Marshall
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A general in the army, the U.S. ambassitor to china and over saw the marshall plan got the noble peace award.
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