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Yalta Conference

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Feb. 1945.-the big three, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin; laid groundwork for United Nations; four nations plan to divide Germany & Berlin based on occupation between US, Britain, France, and Russia

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Truman

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Takes over after FDR has a stroke and dies; gets ‘tough’; doesn’t like Soviets and Stalin

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United Nations

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1945; Soviet Union, Britain, France, US, China; act as a security council; made of 50 nations

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Potsdam Conference

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Agree to division of Germany

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Eastern Europe

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Soviet troops have occupied after war time; “iron curtain”; people trapped in East Berlin

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Iron Curtain

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Winston Churchill said an Iron Curtain divided Europe

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Truman Doctrine

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policy-”to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures;” U.S. afraid of the spread of communism; want to help Greece and Turkey

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Marshall Plan

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U.S. Sec. of State George Marshall-plan for economic recovery offered to all of Europe; completely heals Western Europe; Societs and Eastern Europe rejects this

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The Containment Theory

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theory about containing communism; glass over a spider

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Expansion of Selective Service

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to maintain near wartime levels.

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Divided Germany

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Germany was divided into four zones, as was Berlin, but the U.S., French, and British eventually combined their zones; East and West Germany

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Federal Republic of West Germany

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The good half

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German Democratic Republic

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neither a democracy or a republic; Soviet Union owned

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Berlin Airlift

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Soviet Union cuts off supplies to West Berlin; Truman starts sending supplies by plane; Soviets let up; big power move

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Twelve nations signed including the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Italy, and Portugal; if Soviets become militarily aggressive, this kicks in

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Japan

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Douglas MacArthur looks over Japan during occupation

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China

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ready to go to war; US supported Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Zedong; Mao wins, communist

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Mao Zedong

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The communist in China

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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US supported guy in China

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1949

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Soviets tested their first atomic bomb, nuclear arms race begins, China became Communist.

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Peoples Republic of China

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Communist China; not in league with Soviets

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NSC

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National Security Council Report issued in 1950.

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Korean War

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N. Korea invades S. Korea; US seeks UN approval for military action; UN agrees, action led by the US; North Korea is communist and wants all Korea communist

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Lin Shan Invasion

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cuts off North Korean armies; drive the armies back up, originally wanted to maintain border but MacArthur wants to take whole country; China comes in and says lol no

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Truman-MacArthur Controversy

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MacArthur wants to drop bombs and is denied; he starts bad mouthing Truman, insults him publically, President tells him to quit; fires him when he does not quit.

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GI Bill

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Allows soldiers to get a college education and integrate into the workforce

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Truman’s “Fair Deal”

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wants to increase social security, raise minimum wage, national health insurance, and try to get civil rights; fails

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Election 1948

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More Truman

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Election of 1952

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Eisenhower wins; wins again 1956

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AFL-CIO

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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations merged back together in Dec. 1955 after a 20 year disagreement. George Meany

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Vaccines

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flu, polio, yellow fever, influenza; provided free to the public in 1955, by 1960 it was issued in a sugar cube.

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DDT

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used to protect crops and people from disease carrying insects, it was widely used in WWII, only later were its dangerous long-term effects discovered

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UNIVAC

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the first universal automatic computer, 1950s, to take census information

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Television

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by 1957 over 40 million sets in use, almost as many as there were families

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Rock n’ Roll

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Elvis Presley

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Poverty

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not all was great for Americans about 1/5 of them were in poverty

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Nikita Krushchev

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Stalin’s replacement, starts making things worse

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Hydrogen bomb

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500 times more powerful, better than Russia, in nine months Russia has it

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ICBM

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Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles; shoot missiles without planes

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Polaris

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nuclear warhead launched from a submarine, first fired in 1960.

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Space Race

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Soviets in the lead—they were the first to put a satellite in space-Sputnik, 1957, and a man in space, Yuri Gagarin, we created NASA in 1958 and landed on the moon first thanks to the Apollo Progam, 1969

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Warsaw Pact

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an alliance of Eastern European Communist countries w. Soviet Union.

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Berlin Wall

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the Soviet government built the Berlin Wall

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HUAC

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House UnAmerican Activities Committee; republican backed, Nixon heavily involved; believe communists are EVERYWHERE; people being interviewed, investigated, especially in Hollywood

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Hollywood Ten

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actually admit to being communists

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The Federal Loyalty Program

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starts with Truman, continues under Eisenhower; for people working in the goverment; investigated & fired

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Rosenburg Case

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Ethel’s brother David Greenglass; no proof, part of communist party, put to death

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McCarthyism

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Joseph McCarthy; wants political power; go to peoples houses and ruin reputations; labels key democrats as communists including Marshall

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John F. Kennedy

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“New Frontier” Young, Catholic. Vibrant. Assasinated on Nov. 22, 1963; televised campaign helped him win

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Alliance for Progress

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plan to work with Latin American countries; said economic aid to build infrastructure to become partners

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Peace Corps

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lets young people work in developing countries

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Lyndon Johnson

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War on Poverty & Vietnam

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War of Poverty

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Lyndon Johnson; poverty wins

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Department of Housing and Urban Development

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HUD; First Sec. Robert Weaver, first Af. Am. to serve in it; government style housing

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Immigration Act of 1965

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Puts a strict limit on immigration, no preferences enacted

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Brown V. Board of Education

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supreme court rejected Plessy V. Ferguson decision of 1896, separate was no longer equal.

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Little Rock Case

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Little Rock 9; Eisenhower is supporting desegregation; Little Rock, Arkansas; military escort 9 students into the school

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Rosa Parks

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arrested in Montgomery, Alabama; led to Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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led by MLK; African Americans boycott the bus system; successful

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MLK Jr.

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leader of Civil Rights Movement; assassinatd

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Jackie Robinson

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signed in 1947 to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers he was the first African American to play Major League Baseball.

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SNCC

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Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee

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Freedom Rides

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northern Civil Rights activists went where they were needed

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University of Mississippi

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first student enrolled, military has to go in; George Wallace says he won’t let the school segregate and then is visited by the attorney general

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Birmingham, AL

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series of protests held by MLK; Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor uses police brutality

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March on Washington

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“I Have a Dream” speech

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Voting Rights

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KKK are murdering people; “Freedom Summer”

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Selma Alabama

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major demonstration for voting rights; violence and deaths

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Black Panther Party

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Founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, CA.

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Nation of Islam

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Detroit, founded in 1931 by Elijah Poole-who became Elijah Muhammed; NOI, is an African American political and religious movement

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Fidel Castro

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Dictator of Cuba

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U-2 Incident

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confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union

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Bay of Pigs

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invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure

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Cuban Missle Crisis

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leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff

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The Vietminh

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led by Ho Chi Minh; sought independence

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The First IndoChina War

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the war between France and Vietnam-1950-54

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Dien Bien Phu

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major French fortress

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NLF

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National Liberation Front-also known as the Viet Cong; organize southern Vietnamese communists for Viet Minh

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Diem

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US supported until he wasn’t; out of touch with the people; tries to go Catholic vs. Buddhist; JFK supports a plan to overthrow him… doesn’t know they mean they’ll murder him

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Tet Offensive

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Vietnam strikes back; sucessful at first but not for long

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Nixon Elected

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Landslide; platform to get out of Vietnam

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Vietnamization

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Help the south Vietnamese defend themselves

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Watergate

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People messing with the votes, Nixon resigns

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Gerald Ford

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blamed for bad economy; Vietnam war ends; runs against Ronald Regan and loses to Jimmy Carter

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Fall of Saigon

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Americans and many South Vietnamese evacuated; as many as 30k left to die; Communists wins; no domino effect

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Jimmy Carter

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advocate for human rights; Iranian Hostage Crisis; Carter communicates with Soviet Unin

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Carter Doctrine

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US will use military force to defeat threats to national interest in the Gulf

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