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Russia was the world's first communist state and the world felt threatened by that.
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First international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
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This treaty led to the hyper inflation event in Germany which then caused totalitarian dictators like Stalin to arise.
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helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe.
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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This was a conference between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Since Stalin was pro-communism and Roosevelt and Churchill were pro-democracy they had many different views and it "foreshadowed" the Cold War. One argument was with Poland. At that time, the communist Soviet Union was already controlling Poland. Churchill and Roosevelt wanted Poland to be non-communistic because they believed it suited the Polish people the best and are trying to demolish the spread of communism.
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The General Assembly created the United Nations in 1956. The United Nations is an organization that tries to create co-operation through international orders. They decide to help people in need if a power is doing the wrong thing. All people in the UN have to agree for and order to go through.
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The United Nations was a second attempt to creating a safe security systems.
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Decisions marked a turning point between classical international law and contemporary international law.
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The Revolution started the growth of the communist party.
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The United States presents the Baruch Plan for the international control of atomic weapons to the United Nations that ended up failing.
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This Truman Doctrine stated that the U.S. would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations that are threatened by the ways of communism.
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This Truman Doctrine stated that the U.S. would provide financial aid ($13b) to any European nation that needed it in a way to attack communism and prevent it from spreading. The money that was given to the Western European nations could only be spent towards America. This tactic was a success as it boosted America's economy in a variety of ways and prevented communism.
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The Soviet Union would constantly harass the West and blockade them when they would try to aid the people of Berlin. To counter this blockade, the U.S. and Britain airlifted 2,326,406 tons of food,passengers,coal, and other items in order to help them survive and promote democracy.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to help defend nations from the possibility of a communist national takeover.
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He exposes 200 members of the Department of State that were supposedly communist.
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This was an indirect war between the Soviet Union and thee U.S. as North Korea was in favor of communism and South Korea was in favor of democracy. U.S. helped South Korea as Soviet Union fought with North Korea.
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This is a pact created by the Soviet Union to promote communism. The Warsaw Pact is in a rivalry with the NATO which is the promoter of democracy, and the U.S. is in the NATO.
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Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite in space. Sputnik was what forced the US to launch Apollo 11.
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Nuclear weapons are intended to stop other states from attacking with their nuclear weapons
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba
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Mutual Assured Destruction-nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both of them
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The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into 4 sections. The 4 sections went to the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain, and France. This was a battle for democracy and communism as the Soviet Union tried to remove Britain, France, and the U.S. so they can spread there communism among Germany because, "What happens to Berlin, happens to Germany".
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Cuba is very close to the tip of Florida. Since they are now communists, that gives a near threat for the Soviet Union to attack the U.S. who is in favor of democracy
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A 13 Day standoff after the Soviets but missiles in Cuba.
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The Iron curtain was a line that spread communism and the west. It started during WW2 ad ended after the Cold War.
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This is an indirect war between the U.S. and Soviet Union as North Vietnam is battling against South Vietnam. The U.S. sends troops to aid South Vietnam so the communists of North Vietnam and the Soviet Union do not win and take over with communism.
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Apollo 11 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon so that lead the US to win the space race.
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Students were protesting the the draft to go to war and a guardsman shot 4 of the protesting students.
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A treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy
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Strategic Arms Limitations Talks/Treaty-For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals.
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The South Vietnamese capital fell to the Communist North Vietnam. This marked the end of the Vietnam War.
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After Mao Zedong's death, Deng led his country through far-reaching market-economy reforms
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The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to try to to get them to become a communist nation.
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A bomb was set off by the Berlin Wall causing it to partially collapse and injuring 120, killing 2. The two killed were an American Soldier and Turkish women. Once America found out that Libya was responsible for this bombing they saw this as a communistic threat. On April 15, 1968 the U.S. launched air strikes on Libya.
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The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
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former president of Poland
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Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty - was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the USSR on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.
