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Iron Curtain
a political boundary diving Europe -
Yalta/Potsdam Conferences
Meetings for postwar Peace -
Long Telegram
Policy debate between the United States towards the Soviet Union -
Truman Doctrine
to give support to countries or people threaded by soviet forces they would be insurrection people -
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cold war
Tension between the United States and the Soviet Union -
North Korean Invasion
North Korea invaded South Korea -
Marshall Plan
A Recovery Act to provide assistance to restore postwar Europe -
Berlin Airlift
a plane to carry necessities because the soviet union had blocked the trains -
NATO
this was formed for cooperation among the guard -
Harry Truman
he came up with idea for a powerful weapon to accelerate the Cold War Arms race -
Syngman Rhee
Rhee was a dictator, also President during the Korean War -
US/UN Coalition Forces Arrive
Coalition forces arrive in Iraq -
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Korean War
North Korea and South Korea went to war -
Warsaw Pact
Formal Treaty of mutual assistance -
Jacobo Arbenz
Made a agrarian reform the central project of his administration -
Brinkmanship
pushes a situation close to a dangerous point -
space race
a race between the USSR and the US to discover space first -
Great Leap Forward
5 year economic plan -
JFK
Kennedy warned the Soviets nuclear missiles and pleaded not to attack the Soviet Union -
Cultural Revolution
Movement for the people of China -
Vietnamization
US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war -
first man on the moon
the first man on the moon was Apollo 22 with Neil Armstrong and 12 others -
Operation Storm 333
Tajbeg Palace Assault -
Non-Aligned Movement
an organization of States that did not want to align themselves with either the Soviet Union and the United states -
Paris Peace Accords
This was to establish peace in Vietnam -
Richard Nixon
He removed China as a Cold War foe -
star wars
defensive system against nuclear attacks -
Berlin Wall
separation of east Berlin and east Germany -
M.A.D
Mutual assured destruction -
Commonwealth of Independent States
cooperation on political, economic, environmental and many more. -
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Vietnam War
War fought in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Second Indochina war