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brinkmanship
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a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression
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cold war
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the state of diplomatic hostility between the US and the S.U. in the decades following WWII
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containment
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a US foreign policy adopted by president Harry Truman in the late 1940's, in which the US tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
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detente
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a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the US during the presidency of Richard Nixon
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iron curtain
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during the cold war, the boundary separating the communist nations of eastern europe from the mostly democratic nations of western europe
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marshall plan
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a us program of economic aid to european countries to help them rebuild after WWII
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NATO
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"the north atlantic treaty organization" - a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten western europe nations, the US and canada
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nonaligned nations
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the independent countries that remained neutral in the cold war competition between the us and the soviet union
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salt
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"the strategic arms limitation talks" - a series of meetings in the 1970's, in which leaders of the US and the SU agreed to limit their nations stocks of nuclear weapons
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third world
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during the cold war, the developing nations not allied with either US or the soviet union
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truman doctrine
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announced by president harry truman in 1947, a us policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
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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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