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16 Cards in this Set
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Iron Curtain |
the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism |
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Berlin Airlift |
During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control |
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Potsdam Conference |
The Big Three met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II |
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NATO |
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization: an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty |
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Warsaw Pact |
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe; included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union |
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GI Bill of Rights |
A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II |
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Communist Party |
a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy |
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Marshall Plan |
A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II |
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Truman Doctrine |
the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection |
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Domino Theory |
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries |
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Cold War |
the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990 |
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Containment |
a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad |
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KGB |
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti: the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up |
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CIA |
The Central Intelligence Agency: a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world |
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Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) |
a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender |
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NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration: started in 1958 as a part of the United States government, NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space |
