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Plan of USSR to spread atheist communism first through the rest of Europe, then the whole world.

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Comintern

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Dates

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1945-1991

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Alerted the US that you cannot reason with the Soviets, recommend a “Doctrine of Containment” to stop the spread of communism.

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Keenan’s Telegram

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Gave aid to Greece and Turkey to stop them from becoming communist.

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Truman Doctrine

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US dollars to rebuild war-torn Western Europe

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Marshall plan

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Term coined by Winston Churchhill to describe takeover of eastern Europe after World War II by USSR

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Iron Curtain

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One year of flights by Western allies to West Berlin to bring food and clothing, medicine, etc. Causes USSR to cut off rail and road traffic.

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Berlin airlift

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Built by East Germany to keep its citizens from escaping to the West and freedom

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Berlin wall

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1956 attempts to regain freedom by Hungarians. USSR sends tanks and crushes the revolt.

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Hungarian revolt

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Failed attempt by Czechoslovakia to regain freedom

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Prague Spring

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Threats by US to use nuclear weapons in future to halt Soviet expansion

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Nuclear deterrence

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Mutual defensive agreement between the US and it’s Western allies

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NATO

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Mutual defensive agreement between the USSR and its satellite eastern European countries to counter NATO

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Warsaw Pact

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Shocks of 1949

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USSR developed atomic bomb.

Spy ring discovered in Western Hemisphere.

Nationalist Chinese forces fall in Civil War to Communist Army led by Mao Zedong.

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Two wars fought during this period. Korean War and war in Vietnam. Outcome: Korea stalemate at the 38th parallel. Vietnam a loss for US and Democratic forces.

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“Hot” Wars

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Highpoint of Cold War tension. USSR puts missiles in Cuba aimed at US. Forced to remove them.

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Cuban missile crisis

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Scare of communist infiltrating US government and military. Senator McCarthy begins campaign of accusing people of being communist without proof. To accuse without proof.

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McCarthyism

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Cold War Warriors in US and USSR

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US: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan

USSR: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev

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Mutual Assured Destruction. Recognized by US and USSR. Use of nuclear weapons would result in world being destroyed.

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M.A.D.

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