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"Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. The name refers to the red flags that the communists used. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which are referred to by this name -
Containment
Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy -
arms race
An arms race occurs when two or more nations participate in interactive or competitive increases in "persons under arms" as well as "war material". -
cold war
At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States liberated Korea from imperial Japanese colonial control on 15 August 1945. -
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United States, France, Britain and the Soviet Union occupy zones of Berlin -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative -
cold war
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
The Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. -
Détente with the Soviet Union
Détente, period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. -
Opening relations with China
visit to the People's Republic of China was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and mainland China after years of diplomatic isolation. -
SALT I Treaty
is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement signed -
Gorbachev policies
reforms were gradualist and maintained many of the macroeconomic aspects of the command economy -
INF Treaty
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Revolutions of 1989 formed part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, or collapse of the Soviet Union, was the process of internal disintegration within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also referred to as the Soviet Union.
