The Cold War

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Two sides to the Cold War

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U.S.S.R and U.S.A

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Cold War

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rivalry after World War II between the Soviet Union and its satellites and the democratic countries of the Western world, under the leadership of the United States.

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Capitalism

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an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.

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Berlin Wall

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a guarded concrete wall, 28 miles (45 km), with minefields and controlled checkpoints, erected across Berlin by East Germany in 1961 and dismantled in 1989.

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Sputnik

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orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite created by the Soviet Union

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Market Economy

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a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand.

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Iron Curtain

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the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.

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Arms Race

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competition between countries to achieve superiority in quantity and quality of military arms.

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Anti Communism

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A person against communism

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Space Race

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the competitive nature of the nations involved in space exploration

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Atomic Age

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the period in history initiated by the first use of the atomic bomb and characterized by atomic energy as a military, political, and industrial factor.

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Cuban Missile Chrisis

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It was a time where all of America was scared that Cuba was going to use the Neucular bombs on us

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NATO

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an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.

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Trade Embargo

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a government order imposing a trade barrier

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communism

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a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

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Nuclear war

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a war using nuclear things

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McCarthy hearings

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The Army-McCarthy Hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between March 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the U.S. Army and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by a U.S.-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade south-west Cuba and overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

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Communist Bloc

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During the Cold War, the term Communist Bloc (or Soviet Bloc ) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries it either controlled or that were its allies in Central and Eastern Europe ( Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s— Albania).

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Eastern Bloc

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The label " Eastern Bloc " was also used to collectively denote member states of the Warsaw Pact (a Soviet-dominated military organisation) or the Comecon (an international economic organization of Communist states). Allies outside of Eastern Europe, such as Mongolia and often China, Cuba, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and North Korea were sometimes included in the term Eastern Bloc as well.

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containment

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Strategic U.S. foreign policy of the late 1940s and early 1950s intended to check the expansionist designs of the Soviet Union through economic, military, diplomatic, and political means.

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Warsaw Pact

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The Warsaw Pact was an organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe

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Limited Test Ban Treaty

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The Treaty banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water , often abbreviated as the Partial Test Ban Treaty Limited Test Ban Treaty or Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (although the latter also refers to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) is a treaty prohibiting all test detonations of nuclear weapons except underground.

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Marshall Plan

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Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program, project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference (July, 1947) to foster economic recovery in certain European countries after World War II.

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Truman Doctrine

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The Truman Doctrine was a proclamation by U.S. President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947. It stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey economically and militarily to prevent their falling under Soviet control.

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U-2 Spy Plane

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The U-2 was the plane of choice for the spying missions.

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MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)

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Assured destruction is a concept sometimes used in game theory and similar discussions to describe a condition where certain behaviors or choices are deterred because they will lead to the imposition by others of overwhelming punitive consequences.

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United Nations

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United Nations (UN), international organization established immediately after World War II. It replaced the League of Nations

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Boycotts and Economic Santions

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Attempting the destabilze a communist country by limiting or withdrawing the exchange of goods, knowledge,technology, or cultrual contact.

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Building up Defenses

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Allocating a large percentage of the U.S. budget to the construction of nuclear arms and a powerful military to counter the soviet defence buildup and discourage Soviet aggression.

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Clandestine Operations

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Working in secret, often through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to fix elections or conduct assassinations, coups, or smear campaigns to keep Communist leaders in a country from rising power.

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Economic Aid

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Providing a country with funds, expert advice, or humanitarian aid to promote its economic health and political stabity and foster posotive feelings torward the United States

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Forging Alliances

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Providing weapons and military advice to a country to help t defend itself against the threat of communism from either external influences or internal Communist revolutionaries.

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Negotiations

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Talking with Soviet or Communist leaders to arrive at agreements that reduce the communist threat by lessening the Soviets' military threat or political influence.

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Promoting U.S. Business Interests

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Maintaining stable, friendly relations with a country to promote the interests of American corporations doing business there

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Proxy Wars (Police Actions)

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Avoiding direct conflict with the Soviet Union by providing military and economic aid to countries, or groups within countries, whowere willing to fight against communism. In such cases, the United States and the Soviet Union provided military supported to opposing groups in a warring nation so as to influence the outcome of the war without actually fighting against each other and bringing on neclear war.

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Korean Conflict

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The Korean War, from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953 , was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea.

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Vietnam Conflict

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It was a war of communism and not many Americans liked it and it was really just a waist of time because we ended up withdrawing.

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Police action

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Keeping the world in order

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Massive retaliation

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To get back at someone for doing something

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Vietnam conflict

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It was a war of communism and the Americans didn't like it.

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Police action

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To keep the world in order

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ICBM

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Intercontonential ballistic mistle

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Vietnam conflict

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It was a war of communism and most of the Americans didn't like it.

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Police action

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It was an action to keep the world in order

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Vietnam conflict

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Is a war of communism and most of the Americans didnt like it.

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Police actions

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An action to keep the world in order

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ICBM

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Intercontonential ballistic missile

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Diplomatic pressure

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Diplomatic pressure refers to the use of threats by international actors to sway other actors into following their desired policy.

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Economic pressure

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Economic pressure occurs when a society or country is facing undesirable economic times.

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Military pressure

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We will come in and do something bad if you don't do what we say

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Soviet Agression

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its where the Soviets became agressing and put missles in Turkey

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Glasnost

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was a policy which called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union. Introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s,[1] Glasnost is often paired with Perestroika (literally: Restructuring), another reform instituted by Gorbachev at the same time.

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perestroika

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was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev along with his other major policy reform he introduced known as glasnost, meaning "openness". Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.

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detente

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is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term is often used in reference to the general easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1971, a thawing at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War

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solidarity

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Solidarity is the integration, and degree and type of integration, shown by a society or group with people and their neighbors.[1] It refers to the ties in a society that bind people to one another. The term is generally employed in sociology and the other social sciences

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stalemate

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no one won it is a tie

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The Kremlin

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The name the Kremlin is often used as a metonym to refer to the government of the Soviet Union (1922–1991) and its highest members (such as general secretaries, premiers, presidents, ministers, and commissars), in the same way that the metonym

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Harry Truman

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Was the president in WW2 and and the beginning of the Cold War

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Winston Churchill

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Created the iron curtain

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Douglas McCarther

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want to start WW3