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a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
commonly referred to by its initial: UN, is an international nonprofit organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.
is a way of thinking that says that some groups of humans, such as ethnic groups, should be free to rule themselves.
a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.
also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.
a foreign policy used in the Cold War which is where a country would push a dangerous issue or event to the edge looking for the best outcome for there side.
popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea. The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) near the end of World War II as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R.
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
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A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until 1989.
an international organization which consists of the U.S., Canada, Britain, and other European countries, all of whom have agreed to support one another if they are attacked.
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control.
referred to the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the nations not aligned with either the First World or the Second World.