Cold War

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Cold War

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a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular between the United States and the Soviet Union

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McCarthyism

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a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.

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Berlin Wall

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The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East

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Berlin Airlift

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military operation in the late 1940s 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

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Warsaw Pact

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military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary,

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Iron Curtain

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the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

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Red Scare

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promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.

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Containment

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the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits

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Korean War

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fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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Vietnam War

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a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954.

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Space Race

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the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration

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HUAC

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House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. It was originally created in 1938 to uncover citizens with Nazi ties within the United States.

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Roosevelt

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32nd president of the United States died during WWII

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Kennan

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American advisor advocate for policy of containment of Soviet Union

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Stalin

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Leader of Soviet Union during WWII and the beginning of the Cold War

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Truman

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dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

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Churchill

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Leader of Great Britain during World War II

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Zedong

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leader of the Communist revolution in China

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Kim II-Sung

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leader of North Korea in 1948