Iron curtain map – Flashcards
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United nations
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An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the natioms of the world
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Iron curtain
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During the Cold War, the boundary seperating the communists nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe
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Containment
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A U.S. foreign policy adopted by Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak counties to resist Soviet advances
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Truman doctrine
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A U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by international or external opponents, announced by president Harry Truman in 1947
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Marshall plan
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A U.S. Program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II
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Cold war
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The state of diplomatic hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II
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NATO
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The North Atlantic treaty of organization- a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western Europe nations, the U.S., and Canada
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Warsaw Pact
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A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries
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Brinkmanship
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A policy of threatening to go to war in response to enemy regression
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U-2 incident
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The shooting down of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
