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the US helped rebuild Europe by giving them money. This would increase foreign trade and prevent communism
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President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology.
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anti-communist military alliance created to protect member nations from threats by communist forces. an attack on one member states by an external force would be considered an attack on them all, and all member nations would assist the attacked party militarily
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The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. It is a military alliance between Communist countries in East Europe to counter the threat of Capitalism in Europe. It had a great effect as a military deterrent on any of the European nations seeking war against other nations to better further the spread of the ideas it supported.
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John Kennedy was the president during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the Cuban missile crisis. He was the president who went on tv and told the public about the crisis and allowed the leader of the soviet union to withdraw their missiles. Other events, which were during his terms, were the building of the Berlin wall, the space race, and early events of the Vietnamese war.
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. Destroyed 9 November 1989