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the Marshall plan was a aid package to help Europe rebuild after ww11
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U.S occupation of japan under MacArthur administration.democracy development
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The united states and the U.S.S.R went head to head on who can be a better country. from rocket ships to commercials to anything they could think of.
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After ww2 winston churchill was voted out of office resulting in him coming to the united states and gave a important speech in 1946. He described the soviet union as a ¨iron curtain¨ dividing the continents.
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Democratic government was installed in west berlin
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the us basically thought if communism succeeded south Vietnam the communism would spread and the countries would fall to it
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Containment- the prevention of communism spreading
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a military alliance that resulted in the warsaw plan from the soviet union
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china was divided into 2 nations
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became communist leader of china
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became leader of nationalist china
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north korean troops invaded south korea. policy of containment. war ended in armistice in 1953
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deterrence is the belief that having large amounts of nuclear weapons by both superpowers would prevent nuclear attack
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the Vietnamese defeated the french and pushed them out of Vietnam
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became leader of communist north Vietnam
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applied the containment theory to ending communism in vietnam by sending troops into fight
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berlin wall became a powerful symbol of the division between east and west during the cold war
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brink of nuclear war. john f kennedy imposed a naval blockade of cuba
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developed a closer relationship with the soviet union and developed a nuclear program
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ended the fighting in vietnam by the united states
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vietnam was reunited as a communist country
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reformed communist china's economy to a market economy leading to rapid economic growth, but kept communist control of the government
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close relationship with united states
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instituted policies of glasnost and perestroika which led to the fall of the soviet union
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east and west germany re-unified
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economic collapse and break up