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cold war

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cold war   time of hostility between the superpowers USA andUSSR from 1940s to 1990s. No fighting ever broke out  
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Communism   political ideology that the government should control industry and agriculture. Usually associated with Russia  
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Capitalism   political ideology that allowed and promoted private ownership of business and industry  
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dictatorship   one party or leader in control of a country. They make all the decisions  
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democracy   government of the people, by the people for the people. Free Elections decide who will run the country  
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Satellite states   these were countries taken over by Stalin in which communist controlled governments were in place. They formed a protective zone between Russia and the west  
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iron curtain   the comes from a famous speech by Churchill describing the division between East and West that had formed after WW2  
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truman doctrine   U.S.A policy of giving financial aid to countries after WW2 in the hope that it would stop these countries turning to communism  
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marshall plan   U.S.A policy of helping European countries recover economically after WW2 to prevent spread of communism  
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zones of occupation   After WW2 Germany and Berlin was divided into 4 zones of occupation between the victorious allied countries  
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deutschmark   the new currency the Western allies wanted to bring in to Germany in 1948 to help economic recovery post war  
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Berlin blockade   when the Soviet Union cut of all road, rail and canal links and power supplies to West Berlin in June 1948  
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Berlin airlift   the Western allies response to the Berlin blockade was to airlift supplies in cargo planes bringing them into the west  
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NATO   North Atlantic Treaty Organisation- western countries pledged to help each other if attacked. Organisation set up after Blockade  
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Warsaw pact   Soviet countries formed a military alliance after the Berlin blockade  
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Berlin Wall   a wall erected by the Soviet government dividing East and West Berlin to stop East Berliners moving to the West for better jobs  
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Nikita Khruschev   Leader of Soviet Union after Stalin  
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John F Kennedy   President of USA during Cuban Missile Crisis  
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Fidel Castro   leader of Communist Cuba  
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Bay of Pigs invasion   Kennedy armed invasion of Communist Cuba who were getting assistance from Khrushchev in Russia  
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Cuban missile crisis   U2 spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases were secretly being built in Cuba within range of America  
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Glasnost   policy of openness developed by Gorbachev when he became leader of Russia- end to censorship and more open discussion  
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