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cold war |
rivalry after world war 2 between the soviet union and its satellites and the democratic countries of the western world, under the leader ship of the united states |
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Iron curtain |
a barrier to understanding and the exchanged of information and ideas created by ideological,political,and military and hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and another countries |
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Berlin airlift |
a military operation in the late 1940's that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany,which at that time surrounded West Berlin (see Berlin Wall), has cut off its supply routs. The United states joined with Western European nations in flying the supplies in. The airlift was one of the early events of the Cold War. |
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Korean War |
the war, begun on June 25,1950, between Korea aided by communist China, and South Korea aided by the United states and other United nations members forming a United nations armed force: truce signed July 27, 1953. |
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North Atlantic Treaty Orginizantion ( NATO ) |
an organization formed in Washington, D. C. ( 1949 ), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, And the federal republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression |
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Joseph McCarthy |
1908-57, US republican senator, who led ( 1950-54 ) the notorious investigations of alleged communist infiltration into the US government |
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NiKita Khrushchev |
1894-1971, soviet statesman; premier of the Soviet Union ( 1958-1964 ). After stalin's death he became first secretary of the communist party (1953-1964) and initiated a policy to remove the influence of Stalin (1956). As premier, he pursed a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, but alienated communist China |
