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Grade 5

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The Cold War   Struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that was fought with ideas, words, and money with no direct conflict between the two countries  
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Iron Curtain   boundary dividing Europe between Soviet controlled countries and non-Soviet ones.  
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communism   political & economic system in which the government owns all businesses and land  
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Berlin Airlift   program under which the U.S. helped West Berlin by flying in food and fuel when Soviet troops cut off the city from Western trade  
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Korean War   war between South Korea (supportedby the U.S. and the United Nations) and North Korea (supported by China.)  
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)   international organization that wanted to prevent the spread of communism and nations agreed to help each other if they were attacked  
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Joseph McCarthy   U.S. Senator who claimed that communists were working inside the U.S. government.  
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Nikita Khrushchev   leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War who instigated the Cuban Missle Crisis  
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Cuban Missile Crisis   tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba  
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point of view   who is telling the story? 1st person (I, me, we) 2nd person (you, your) 3rd person (they, he, she)  
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