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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 that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989 |
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Berlin Airlift |
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 had cut off its supply routes |
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Potsdam Conference |
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman—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 |
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 |
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact 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. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces |
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Communist Party |
is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles ofcommunism through state policy. The name originates from the 1848 tract Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
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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. It was proposed by the United States secretary of state, General George C. Marshall |
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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. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War |
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Domino Theory |
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall |
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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 |
the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence |
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KGB |
main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up |
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CIA |
is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence |
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Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) |
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 |
an acronym for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the federal agency that is responsible for aerospace research, aeronautics, and the civilian space program |
