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Iron curtain is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the warsaw pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the cold war in 1991.
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the marshall plan was the american program to aid europe where the united states gave monetary support to help rebuild european economies after the end of world war II in order to prevent the spread of soviet communism.
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In 1949, the prospect of further communist expansion prompted the united states and 11 other western nations to form the north atlantic treaty organization witch is NATO.
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the sviet union and its affiliated communist nations in eastern europe founded a rival alliance, the warsaw pact, in 1955.
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rhe cold war was a fight between the U.S. and the USSR over the worlds resources. south vietnam was an alie of the US and north vietnam was an alie of the USSR.
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the Sputnik crisis was the american reaction to the success of the sputnik program.
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The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership.
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The Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro.
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the berlin wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept east germans from fleeing to the west.
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the cuban missile crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.