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13 Cards in this Set
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Premier Stalin |
Soviet leader responsible for creating the conditions of the cold war by installing communist governments throughout Easter and Central Europe following WW2 |
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President Kennedy |
American leader during the most intense and dangerous period of the Cold War (1960-1963) |
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President Reagan |
American leader who lead the country during the period when the cold war ended and is given credit for influencing the Soviet Union eventual collapse and adoption of democracy in 1991 |
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President Truman |
American leader whose anti communist doctrine created America's foreign policy (1945 -1991) and the cold war |
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Rosenberg |
American couple who provided the Soviets with the information to build an atomic bomb. These were the last two Americans to be executed for espionage |
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Soviet Republics gain their freedom/Germany Reunites (year) |
1990 |
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Soviet Union Collapses and Cold War Ends (year) |
1991 |
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Sputnik |
The Soviet Union launches the first satellite into space in 1957 |
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Tiananmen Square |
Chinese students were protesting for more rights, freedom, and democracy in 1989. Government sent in tanks and crushed the movement |
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Truman Doctrine |
The United States will help any nation fight against communism by providing economic and military aid |
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U-2 Incident |
Soviet Union shoots down an American Spy plane |
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United Nations |
Organizations created after WW2 to promote World Peace |
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Warsaw Pact |
Military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries |
