The Cold War
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| show | The Constitution of the United Nations which created a security council responsible for international peace and security
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| show | Pro-Communist nations established in Eastern Europe after WWII, such as Poland Romania, Hungary & Czechoslovakia, which were economically & politically controlled by the Soviet Union
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| show | the term coined by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to describe the political and military barrier that isolated Soviet-controlled countries of Eastern Europe after WWII
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| show | the US foreign policy devised by diplomat George Kennan and put in place under President Truman to try and prevent the expansion of Soviet power, with the goal of patiently waiting for political & economic weaknesses of communism causing it to fall apart
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| show | a war fought to achieve a specific objective such as stopping the spread of communism during the cold war
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| show | the US response to the Soviet Union stopping travel in and out of Berlin, Germany. The US planes dropped 2 million tons of supplies for the Berlin citizens until the blockade was lifted.
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| show | plan created by Secretary of State George Marshall to aid Europe in recovering from the damage of WWII to rebuild their economies. This was part of the Containment Policy and helped strengthen nations that were in danger of turning to communism.
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| show | communist leader of Chinese rebels who fought the Japanese invasion and then won the civil war against the Nationalist Party for control of China following WWII
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| show | hero of WWII in defeating Japan, who was in charge of US forces during the Korean War, but was fired by President Truman for insabordination & criticizing his decision to fight a "limited war" by not using nuclear weapons against Chinese forces
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| show | the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that included the US and most west European nations in a treaty of mutual defense against an attack by the Soviet Union
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| show | a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within; the fear of spies infiltrating the US government led to the Red Scares of the 1950s
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| show | a policy established by President Truman that authorized the screening of all federal employees to determine their loyalty to the US
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| show | the act of operating or arranging industries such as the film industry to achieve the effect of influencing support for communism during the Cold War
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| show | nations whose economies have limited industry and are primarily agricultural; also called Third-World Nations
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