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Cold War
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iron curtains
this divsion was a serious threat to peace -
truman doctrine
the turman doctrine was a pledge to provide economic and military aid to oppose the spread of communism -
marshall
the marshall plan named after US secretary of state george marshall provide 13 billion dollar rebuild europe -
berlin airlift
the berlin airlift was the only way to bring supply into west berlin -
NATO
the NATO stand for north atantic treaty oraganzation and it was designed for counter soveit unoin power in europe -
warsaw pact
eastern europe alliance known as warsaw pact -
sputnik
the arms race took another leap when the soviet union launched sputnik -
the arms race begins
during 1960 nuclear war seemed to draw ever closer as the soveit unoinand the untied states raceed to develop powerful new weapons