Cold War Terms

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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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Berlin Airlift

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A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany

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Potsdam Conference

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The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

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NATO

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.

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Warsaw Pact

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was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War

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GI Bill of Rights

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The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans

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Communist Party

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A communist party is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy

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Marshall Plan

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was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.

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Truman Doctrine

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With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

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Domino Theory

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The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

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Cold war

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The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.

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Containment

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Containment is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism.

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KGB

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an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti

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CIA

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The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government

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Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

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is 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

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stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.NASA was 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.