The Cold War

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Soviet Union

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U.S.S.R

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Communism

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a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

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Two Countries in the Cold War

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Soviet Union(U.S.S.R) and The United States(U.S.A)

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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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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.
Cold Wars

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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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a barrier to understanding and 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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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 Crises

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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. The Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, placed Soviet military missiles in Cuba, which had come under Soviet influence since the success of the Cuban Revolution three years earlier. President John F. Kennedy of the United States set up a naval blockade of Cuba and insisted that Khrushchev remove the missiles. Khrushchev did.

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Trade Embargo

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a government order imposing a trade barrier [syn: embargo]

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Berlin Airlift

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A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin ( see Berlin wall), had cut off its supply routes. The United States joined with western European nations in flying the supplies in. The airlift was one of the early events of the cold war.

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Communist Bloc

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the name applied to the former Communist states of eastern Europe, esp. during the existence of the Soviet Union

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Eastern Bloc

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The name applied to the former communist states of eastern Europe, including Yugoslavia and Albania, as well as the countries of the Warsaw Pact. ( See also European Union and Iron Curtain.)

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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. It was conceived by George Kennan soon after World War II. An early application of containment was the Truman Doctrine (1947), which provided U.S. aid to Greece and Turkey. Seealso Marshall Plan.

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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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Warsaw Pact

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an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command.

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Marshall Plan

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any comprehensive program for federally supported economic assistance, as for urban renewal.

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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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any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.

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Truman Doctrine

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the policy of President Truman, as advocated in his address to Congress on March 12, 1947, to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology.

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Boycotts and Economic Sanctions

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attempting to destabilize a communist country by limiting or withdrawing the exchange of goods,knowledge,technology,or cultural 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 defense buildup and discourage Soviet aggresion.

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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 to 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 stability and to foster positive feelings toward the United States

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Forging Alliances

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Creating a strong relationship in which the U.S. and another country pledge to support each other in efforts to prevent the spread of communism and promote the spread of democracy

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Military Aid

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Providing weapons and military advice to a country to help it 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

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avoiding direct conflict with the Soviet Union by providing military and economic aid to countries,or groups within countries,who were willing to fight against communism. In such cases,the United States and the Soviet Union provided military support 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 nuclear war.

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United Nations

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an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945. Abbreviation: UN Compare General Assembly, Security Council.

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Police Action

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a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.

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Massive Retaliation

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a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.

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ICBM

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Improve memory with scientifically designed brain exercises

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Glasnost

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the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

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Perestroika

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the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.

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Detente

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a relaxing of tension, especially between nations, as by negotiations or agreements.

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Solidarity

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union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote solidarity among union members.

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Stalemate

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any position or situation in which no action can be taken or progress made; deadlock: Talks between union and management resulted in a stalemate.

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The Kremlin

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the citadel of Moscow, including within its walls the chief offices of the Russian and, formerly, of the Soviet government.

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Harry Truman

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President after World War 2. Told people to drop the atomic bomb. 1884–1972, 33rd president.

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Douglas MacArthur

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got fired during korean war. 1880–1964, U.S. general:

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Dwight Eisenhower

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president after Harry Truman

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Joseph Stalin

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leader of Soviet Union.