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30 Cards in this Set
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Iron Curtain
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term used by W. Churchill to describe barrier between free and communist Europe
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Containment
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General term to describe U.S foreign policy to stop the spread of communism
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Marshall Plan
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more coomon name for European Revocery Act that provided billions of dollars to help Europe rebuild after WWII
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NATO
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major military alliance of the free world
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China
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asian country that became communist shortly after WWII
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Warsaw Pact
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military alliance between Soviet Union and communist countries in eastern Europe
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Berlin
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city that was divided by heavily fortified wall until it was torn down in 1989
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Sputnik
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russian man made satellite launched into space in 1957
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U-2
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american spy plane shot down over Soviet Union in 1960
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Cuba
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in 1962, sovuiet union and "US almost went to war over missiles located in this country
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Detente
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word used to descirbe relaxation of tension between US and USSR in 1970s
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Afghanistan
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asian country occupied by soviet troops from 1979 to 1989
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Lech Walesa
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the solidarity trade union led the struggle against communism in this country
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INF
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Historic arms control treaty to eliminate some intermediate range nuclear missiles
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common wealth of independent states
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the loose association of independent countries that formed after the collapse of the USSR
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Lithunania
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independent baltic republic that used to be a part of the USSR
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Kazakhstan
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independent muslim country in central asia that used to be part of the USSR
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Ukraine
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Kiev is the capital of this independent country that used to be part of the USSR
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Chechnya
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Muslim region within russia where rebels and terroriests have been fighting for independence
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established policies of glastnost and perestroika
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Mikhail Gorbechev
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responsible for ordering the soviet occupation of eastern Europe at the end of WWII
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Joseph Stalin
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led the freedom movement and became the first president of poland after collapse of communism
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Lech Walesa
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ordered soviet troops withdrawn from Afganistan and refused to send soviet troops to prevent the collapse of communism in eastern Europe
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Mikhail Gorbechev
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led the de-stalinization effort and became the first soviet leader to visit the U.S
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Nikita Khrushchev
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orderedm the blockade of WEst Berlin in order to test american resolve to contain communism
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Joseph Stalin
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led the soviet union to the brink of world war during the Cuban Missile crisis
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Nikita khrushchev
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this writer was elected president of czechoslovakia as a result of the velvet revolution
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Vaclav Havel
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current leader of russia who has attempted to roll back democratic reform in order to combat terrorism
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Vladimir Putin
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chancellor who led effort to reunify west and east germany
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Helmut Kohl
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first democratically elected president of russia who led opposition againt the failed communist coup of 1991
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Boris Yeltsin
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