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The Truman Doctrine of containment was a United States policy to stop Soviet expansion during the Cold War. United States President Harry S. Truman pledged to contain communism in Europe and elsewhere and forced the US to support any nation with both military and economic aid if its stability was threatened by communism or the Soviet Union.
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A system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
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The Korean Warwas a war between North and South Korea, in which the United Nations force led by the USA fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also helped by the Soviet Union.
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The Domino Effect was that if one country in a region became a communist country, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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The warsaw pact was a defensice treaty with eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War
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The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam (Communists) and the government of South Vietnam (Democratic). There was a lot of Guerilla warfare and airstrikes during this war. It ended with ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later.
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sputnik 1 was the first artificial earth satelite sent up by the Soviet Union
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Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot. He was the first man to go into outer space. His spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
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The Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba planned by tunofficial CIA group on 17 April 1961
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The berlin wall was a barrier built by Easter Germany to keep the people inside western berlin. No one could get in or out of the wall
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day "battle" between the US and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It was the closest the Cold War came to turining into a full-scale nuclear war.
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Apollo 11 was the Spacecraft that took the first humans on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first to humans in history to set foot on the moon.
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Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party during 1986 and associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform.
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On November 9, 1989, a spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in the city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders
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