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United Nations
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An international peacekeeping organization founded to provide security to the nations of the world
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Containment
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A U.S foreign policy adopted by President Truman in the late in which the U.N tried to stop the spread of communism by CREATING ALLIANCES and HELPING WEAK COUNTRIES to resist soviet advances.
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
A defensive military alliances formed by ten Western European nations, the U.S, and Canada. |
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Truman Doctrine
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announced by Truman
a U.S policy of giving economic and military aid and to free nations threatened by international or external opponents |
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Marshall Plan
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a U.S program of economic aid to European Countries to help them rebuild after WWII
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Cold War
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the state of diplomatic hostility between the U.S and the S.U in the decades following WWII
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Brinkmanship
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A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression
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warsaw pact
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a military alliance formed by the S.U and seven Eastern European countries
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iron curtain
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during the cold war
the boundary separating the communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe |
