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Alliance of US, Canada, Western Europe as a defensive alliance against a Soviet attack

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NATO

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a society preoccupied with buying goods

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consumer society

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body charged with maintaining international peace and security in the UN

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Security Council

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communist leader of Cuba

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Fidel Castro

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country in which the government takes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens

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welfare state

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Atlee, Truman, and Stalin

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Big Three

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economy in which individuals make economic decisions

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capitalism

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economy in which the government makes all economic decisions

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communism

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Has a security council veto

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China, Soviet Union, France, US

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Communist Information Bureau, which included all European communist parties

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Comintern

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Defensive alliance of the USSR and Eastern Europe

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Warsaw Pact

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group of nations with a common purpose

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bloc

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Inter-continental Ballistic Missile

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ICBM

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Leader of Czechoslovakia deposed in the Prague Spring of 1968

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Alexander Dubcek

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Leader of Free French Forces during WWII and president of France after WWII

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Charles DeGaulle

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Leader of West Germany during its “economic miracle”

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Konrad Adenauer

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legislative and deliberative body of the United Nations

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General Assembly

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Lyndon Johnson’s program of social reform

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Great Society

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Network of radar on the Arctic Circle that provides an early warning of an air attack

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DEW Line

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Period in early 1968 Czechoslovakia when promised reforms were crushed by the Soviet Military

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Prague Spring

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Leader of the Soviet Union duiring the Cuban Missle Crisis

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Nikita Khruschev

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Plan to rebuild Eastern Europe after WWII; Soviet response to the Marshall Plan

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COMECON

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policy aimed at restricting the spread of communism

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containment

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policy of removing Nazis from positions of authority in goverment, business, and education

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denazification

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power to defeat a measure with a single vote

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veto

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suspicion and hostility between the communist ans western nations, wage by political and economic means rather than weapons

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Cold War

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US plan to rebuild Europe after WWII

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Marshall Plan

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Belief that if South Vietnam fell to communism the other countries of Southeast Asia would fall as well

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domino theory

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Treaty among the nations of central and west Asia to prevent the spread of communism

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CENTO

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periods of temporary business slow down and incresing unemployment

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recessions

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countries of Eastern Europe politically dependent on the USSR

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satellite states

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postion of the U.S. government to prevent the spread of communism and to aid countries in that effort

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Truman Doctrine

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the manufacture of machine and equipment for use in factories and mines

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heavy industry

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communist dictator of Yugoslavia

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Tito

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policy of being so militarily strong that no one would attack you

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deterrence

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Alliance between US Great Britain France Pakistan Thailand Philippines Australia and New Zealand

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SEATO

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Alliance of Australia New Zealand and the US

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ANZUS

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Strategic arms and limitations

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SALT

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Phase of relaxed tensions and improved relations between 2 adversaries

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Detente

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