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10 Cards in this Set
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Struggle between Soviets and the US where fears of nuclear war rose |
Cold War
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The first artificial satellite in the world
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Sputnik
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The US discovered Soviet missiles on Cuba that posed a threat to America and JFK demanded a blockade of Cuba
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nation with strength great enough to have influences on events worldwide
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Superpower
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A Speaking out honestly policy
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Glasnost
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Isolated Soviet-controlled European countries
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Iron Curtain
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Private owned citizen business based economy
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Free Enterprise System
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Very little freedom where the government has full control
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Communism
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There is a lot of freedom as well as private ownership
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Democracy
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US tried to use this policy to not allow communism to spread
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Containment
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