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An American government effort from 1943-1980 to decrypt coded messages by intelligence forces of the Soviet Union.
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The Iron Curtain was the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical, blood-thirsty rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets resented the Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community as well as their delayed entry into World War II, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Russians.
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Give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
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Any comprehensive program for federally supported economic assistance, as for urban renewal.
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The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
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American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union.
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each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
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United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
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An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government.
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