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21 Cards in this Set
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United nations |
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Cold war |
Tension between capitalists / democracy US and communist/totalitarian ussr |
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Capitalism |
Economic system with private ownership competition |
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Democracy |
Government system people vote for leaders |
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Communism |
Economic system government ensures everyone makes some amount of money government owns everything and all businesses |
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Satlin |
Dictator of the USSR after Lenin dies |
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Harry truman |
The president after FDR dies |
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Soviet satellite nations |
Eastern Europe countries communist under control of USSR |
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Iron Curtain |
Border between Democrat Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe |
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Containment |
US policy of keeping communism from spreading to other countries |
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Marshall Plan |
I plan to give Western Europe billions of dollars to rebuild after World War 2 said I would not turn into communists |
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Truman Doctrine |
A plan for military aid threatened by communism |
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NATO |
Alliance of Western Europe and North American democracies attack on one an attack on all security |
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Berlin Blockade / airlift |
Stalin blockade West Berlin trying to make it communists US air lift supplies into West Berlin Stalin calls off blockade |
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Central Intelligence Agency CIA |
Spies on other countries |
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Arms races |
The race between the US and the USSR for for the best weapons and first strike capability |
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Hydrogen bomb ICBMs |
Most powerful nuclear bomb missile that could reach other continents |
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Domino theory |
Idea that if one nation became communist neighboring countries would become communist |
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Korean War |
North Korea takes over South Korea and attempt to unite Korea as one communist country |
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House on un american Activities Committee and loyalty review board |
Target communist to Hollywood investigate Americans for ties to communism led by Joseph McCarthy |
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Elgar hiss Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
All State Department employee caught spying for USSR Rosenberg passed nuclear secrets to USSR |
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