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Policy of Containment
-Kept communism from spreading beyond the countries already under its influence
-The policy applied to a world divided by the Cold War, a struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Truman Doctrine
-President Harry S. Truman gave a speech urging the U.S. to assist Greece and Turkey in fighting off communist forces.
-Official decleration of the Cold War -
Contextualization-The Korean War
-This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. America worked to create an armistice with North Korea to avoid an even larger war with Soviet Russia and China.
- Two years after the end of the Korean War, the Vietnam War began on November 1, 1955. -
Nixon's Detente
-Detente was a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
-Nixon visited Moscow, Russia in order to negotiate peace and ease tensions -
SALT I Treaty
-Three year agreement on the sale of grain to Soviets
-For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals.
-The Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms was to have a five year duration that would freeze the number of strategic ballistic missiles, such as the ICBM’s and the submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM’s), at the current 1972 level.
