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was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and itssatellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). |
Cold war |
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was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991 |
The iron curtain |
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established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. |
Truman Doctrine |
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was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communismabroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. |
Containment policy |
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American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II |
Marshall Plan |
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A Divided Germany. After the Potsdam conference, Germany was divided into four occupied zones: Great Britain in the northwest, France in the southwest, the United States in the south and the Soviet Union in the east. Berlin, the capital city situated in Soviet territory, was also divided into four occupied zones. |
Post-war division |
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was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany |
Berlin blockade |
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was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 |
Berlin Wall |
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Under which presidency did the Korean War begin? |
Truman |
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What did Truman and MacArthur disagree on during the Korean War? |
MacArthur wanted to bomb China |
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seven months after President ___________ inauguration as the 34th President of the United States, an armistice was signed, ending organized combat operations and leaving the KoreanPeninsula divided much as it had been since the close of World War II at the 38th parallel. |
Eisenhower |
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vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party. |
McCarthyism |
