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12 Cards in this Set
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An invisible Wall that divded the capitalist west from the communist east.
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iron curtain
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if one country falls to communism, others will follow.
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domino theory
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countries controlled politically and economically by the Soviet Union
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satellite nations
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a competition between two or more countries for military supremacy
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arms race
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an indirect conflict that existed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1945 to the 1980
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cold war
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the U.S. cold war policy of preventing communism from expanding past the borders set after World War II.
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containment
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alliance of 12 nations that stated an attack against one would be viewed as an attack agains all
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NATO
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Nations that are not allied with either side
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nonaligned
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Dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world
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interdependence
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type of government systems where all wealth and property would be controlled by the community as a whole
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communism
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nations strong enough to influence the acts and policies of other nations
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superpowers
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the communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union formed this organization in response to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Warsaw Pact
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