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A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States
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Churchill's speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War.
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation
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The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection
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Was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II.
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A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin.
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Also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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The hydrogen bomb
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A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe.
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A Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.
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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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Leader of Cuba during WWll
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Invasion, 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government.
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from the east from the west 1961 to 1989,
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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba.
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Is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22.
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commonly known as the June Fourth Incident or '89 Democracy Movement in China.
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