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A major wartime conference where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin tried to establish an agenda for governing post-war Germany.
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Yalta Conference
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The major leaders decided at this conference to destroy all of Germany's industrial potential and divide it into four occupation zones.
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Potsdam Conference
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This policy was designed to stop nations from falling under Soviet control by preventing the spread of soviet power.
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Containment
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic..." this impenetrable barrier had descended to divide communist Russia from the rest of Europe.
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Iron Curtain
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Stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey economically and militarily to prevent their falling under Soviet control.
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Truman Doctrine
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The primary plan of the United States for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe, and repelling communism after World War II.
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Marshall Plan
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The Soviet system to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union.
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Molotov Plan
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"The father of containment," and a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.
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George Kennan
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A 7000 word telegram sent by Kennan to outline his views of the Soviets.
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Long Telegram
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Formally titled The Sources of Soviet Conduct, this article was published in Foreign Affairs magazine in July 1947 by Kennan, and signed only with an X.
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X Article
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Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties. It was the first official forum of the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Comintern.
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Cominform
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The leader of Yugoslavia from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he organized the anti-fascist resistance movement known as the Yugoslav Partisans.
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Marshall Tito
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The combination of the American and the British occupation zones during the occupation of Germany after World War II.
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Bizonia
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Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; an economic organization of communist states.
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Comecon
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A military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. It is a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party.
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NATO
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Made the case for a US military buildup to confront what it called an enemy "unlike previous aspirants to hegemony."
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NSC-68
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