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History Final
Cold War
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11th Grade
06/02/2011

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marshall plan
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$13 billion for US to aid 16 countries.
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belin airlift
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berlin was blocked off for 11 months by stalin. US sent airplanes to offer food & supplies.
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mccarthyism
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attacks, often unsubstantiated, by senator joseph m. & other people suspected to be a communist.
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sputnik
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1957; russia was the first country in space.
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containment
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the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread communist influence
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korean war
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containment; mccarther gets fired; 38th parallel
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iron curtain
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winston churchill; 1946; imaginary line separated communist countries in the soviet block of eastern europe.
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SALT I
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five year agreement between the us and soviet union to limit missiles
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detene
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willingness to negotiate; richard nixon & henry kissinger dealing with communist nations.
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nato
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north atlantic treaty organization; ten european countries, us, and canada.
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cuban missile crisis
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closest to bomb war; 1962; russia backed down; take out of turkey; us stops spying on cuba.
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eisenhower doctrine
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middle east
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