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16 Cards in this Set
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Iron Curtain |
the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War |
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Berlin Airlift |
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. |
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Potsdam Conference |
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states |
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Warsaw Pact |
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe |
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GI Bill of Rights |
A law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans |
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Communist Party |
A political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy. |
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Marshall Plan |
A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II. |
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Truman Doctrine |
The US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. |
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Domino Theory |
The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries |
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Cold War |
state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. |
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Containment |
The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits. |
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KGB |
Was the main security agency for the Soviet Union |
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CIA |
Tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence |
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Mutually Assured Destruction |
Is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons |
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NASA |
In charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space. |
