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The cold war Flashcards

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A struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military action or war

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Cold War

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Created a post - War peace
(Stalin,WC, Roosevelt)

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Yalta Conference

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The united nation was established
( International peace keeping organization- replaced the league of nations)

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San Francisco Conference

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Term that came to represent the division between communist eastern Europe and democratic western Europe

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Iron curtain

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US foreign policy stopping the spread of communism and spreading democracy

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Containment

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Soviet union demanded berlin
Berlin was in the soviet sector - set up a blockade around west berlin

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Berlin airlift

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Economic assistance (aid) program to rebuild western Europe after the war, only requirement was to stay far away from communism
- named after George Marshall

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Marshall plan

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Gave military aid and support to any country in the world that resisted and rejected communism

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Truman Doctrine

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NATO:

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization led by the USA, Canada, western Europe

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(Hydrogen) development that was thousands of times more powerful than A-Bombs

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H-Bombs

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Who led the Warsaw pact:

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Led by the soviet union and eastern Europe

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Launch weapons from space

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Space Race

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Willingness to got to the brink or edge of war created huge tension between the two superpowers

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Brinkmanship

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First Russian man into space

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Yuri Gagarin

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first to orbit the earth

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John glenn

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First to step on the moon

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Neil Armstrong

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fear that the communist had infiltrated spies into the US government
- joseph McCarthy led investigation

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Red scare/ Red hunt

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East Berliners fled to the west trying to escape communism/ soviet union built a wall overnight to keep them from leaving/ over 100 miles long

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Berlin Wall

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Pres. John F. Kennedy gave approval to an overthrow of the communist government
-Failed miserably

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Bay of pigs invasion (Cuba)

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Nakita Khrushchev (soviet leader) placed several nuclear missiles in cuba all pointed towards the USA

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Kennedys assassin

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Cuban prime minister

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Fidel Castro

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