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During Harry Truman's years as president, he attempted to contain the spread of communism as The Cold War heated up.
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Widespread fear by a society or state about potential rise of communism,anarchism, or radial leftism. Occurred immediately after WWl
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George Kennan, the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000 world telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union & the U.S. policy toward the communist state
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The purpose was to shape a post-war peace plan to give self-determination to the liberated people of post Nazi-Europe. Was intended to mainly discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
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Most global war in history; involved more than 10 million people from 30 different countries. It was the deadliest conflict in human history.
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A intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. At its founding the UN had 51 member states and now they're at 193 states.
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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Truman pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey.
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International crisis that arose from an attempt from the Soviet Union to force Western allies to abandon their post-World War ll jurisdictions in West Berlin
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the U.S. gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe economies after the WWII
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The prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the U.S. & 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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the practice of making accusations pf subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence
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civil defense training taught to children if there were a nuclear expolsion
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A war between North & South Korea. Started because North Korea invaded South Korea
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U.S. citizens who were executed because they were evicted of being espionage's for the Soviet Union
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Was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and 7 Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe
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A Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from the U.S. military forces if it was being threaten by armed aggression.
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A U.S. U-2 spy plane was shot while in Soviet airspace.The aircraft flown by Central Intelligence pilot Francis Gary Powers was performing photographic aerial reconnaissance when it was hit by an S-75 Dvina & crashed near Sverdlovsk.
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Artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt,connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.
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the national barrier separating the former Soviet block & the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe
