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8 Cards in this Set
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war between US and USSR, starting at Potsdam conference; confrontations include Berlin blockade, NATO vs Warsaw Pact, and Korean War
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Cold War
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Winston Churchill's idea to put a wall up in the eastern part of Europe and not let anyone in
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iron curtain
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Truman wants to help anyone who is fighting communism using containment
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Truman Doctrine
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US plan to rebuild E. Europe, Soviet Comecon in the east and the US in the West
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Marshall Plan
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idea by George Keenan to keep communism from spreading: used in Turkey and Greece
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containment
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western response to the Berlin blockade used to bring in supplies by plane
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Berlin airlift
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the cold war confrontation against the Warsaw Pact, uses brinkmanship (US)
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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
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Soviet response to the NATO during the cold war: OAS, CENTO, and SETO
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Warsaw Pact
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