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United Nations
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An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world
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Iron Curtain
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during the Cold War, the boundary separating the communist nations of Eastern Europe from mostly democratic nations Western Europe
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Truman Doctrine
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Announced President Harry Truman in 1947,a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
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Cold War
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The state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following the World War II
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WarSAW Pact
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A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries
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Brinkmanship
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A policy of threatening to go to war response to any enemy aggression
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