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Cold War

By Smo12
  • Arms Race

    Arms Race

    Competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons.
  • Soviet Union

    A socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922-1991
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    Was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    crimera conference and code named the argonaut conference
  • Indochina Wars

    Indochina Wars

    Fighting between French forces and their Viet MInh oppents in the south
  • Truman Doctrine

    Gave &400 million in economic & military aid to Greece & Turkey. To fend off communism and stay free
  • Marshall Plan

    European recovery plan. 16 countries received aid. $13 billion in aid given to rebuild western europe
  • Berlin Airlift

    Stalin cuts off supplies into western Berlin. US airlift food lasted 11 months.
  • NATO

    North Atlantic treaty organization collective society. Had to be a democracy.
  • Arms Race

    Arms Race

    A struggle to gain weapon superiority.
  • Communist

    person who supports or believes in the principles of communism
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    Korean War

    War between North and South Korea
  • Eisenhower

    Eisenhower

    Became president in 1953. Elected on the platform of K1,C2
  • SEATO

    Prevent the dominio theory. South east asian treaty organization
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    20th century competition between two cold war rivals, the soviet union and united states
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine but for the mid east
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    The soviet union launched sputnik in 1957
  • Viet Cong

    Viet Cong

    A mass political organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia.
  • Nixon's Election

    Nixon's Election

    Defeated the Democratic nominee Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided berling