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Military Industrial Complex |
Group of arms manufacturers in the United States; defense contractors |
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Nuclear Deterrent |
Level of nuclear strength that is high enough to provide security |
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MAD |
Mutually Assured Destruction |
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Arms Race |
Competition to develop the most advanced weapons and the biggest military |
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ICBMs |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles |
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Nature of the Cold War |
-Ideological Opposition-Superpowers and spheres of influence -Alliances and diplomacy |
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Policies of the Cold War |
--> containment--> brinkmanship (push everything to the brink of the war and right off just before the war begins), --> peaceful coexistence, --> détente-Arms race, --> proliferation, limitation-Social, cultural, economic impacts |
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Cold War Ideological Differences |
--> communism vs capitalism -->Mutual suspicion and fear (1917)-From war-time allies to post-war enemies - Soviet sphere of influence - Baltic states and Eastern Europe who were ruled by Soviet governing |
