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Yalta/Potsdam Conferences
deciding what to do with the captured territory by the allies. -
Long Telegram
The first thing that it did was address the threat of the Soviet Union's foreign policy. The second thing that it introduced the "containment" policy. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a metaphor for the extreme political and ideological division that separated Western Europe from the Soviet Union and its satellite states in the east. -
Novikov Telegram
The Soviet response to The Long Telegram was The Novikov Telegram, in which the Soviet ambassador to the USA, Nikolai Novikov, warned that the USA had emerged from World War Two economically strong and bent on world domination. -
Berlin Wall Construction and Fall
Was a wall put through the middle of Berlin to separate the Western and the Eastern parts. The fall of the Berlin Wall was pronounced on November 9, 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain.