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Also known as the crimea conference and code named the Argonauts conference, held from 4-11 february, 1945, the UK and the Soviet union for the purposes of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization, Soviet union, U.S, Great Britain
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A state of geopolitical tension after ww2 between powers in the Easter bloc and powers in the western bloc
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A theory that if one nation becomes a communist controlled the neighboring nations will also become communist controlled
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A international peace keeping organization to which most nations in the world belong founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security and economic development
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Competition without war or a policy of peace between nations of widely differing political systems and ideologies, especially between the communist and non communist nations
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It was an imaginary wall that divided communism and capitalism countries
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•Gave $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey
•To fend off communism and stay free
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•European recovery plan
•16 countries received aid
•$13 billion in aid given to rebuild western Europe
•Offered to Eastern Europe But Soviet union said No
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•the draft had been seen as unfair to blocks and the poor
•new draft lottery ended racial and economic discrimination -
•Stalin cut off supplies into west Berlin
•US airlift food and supplies into the city
•lasted 11 months
•Stalin reopened supply lines
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•North Atlantic treaty organization
•collective security
•alliance to support one another military
•Had to be a democracy
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•South East Asian treaty organization
•US + 7 other nations
•To prevent the domino treaty
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•Like the Truman Doctrine but for the middle East
•Offered economic and military support if communism threatened the middle East
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•Program of volunteer assistance to developing nations of Asia,Africa,& Latin America
•By 1968, 36,000 volunteers had helped in 60 nations
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•Foreign aid and program
•Offered economic and technical assistance to Latin American countries
•US invested $12 billion
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A concrete wall that separated Easy Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989 built by the communist East Germany government to prevent it's citizens from fleeing to the west
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A five year agreement between the U.S and the Soviet union signed in 1972 that limited the nation's #'s of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine launched missiles
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•1972 Nixon was re-elected and a cease-fire was negotiated ("Peace with honor")
•1/27/1972 Paris peace talks concluded calling for an end to the U.S. involvement and the release of prisoners of war
•South Vietnam "must fight it's own fight now"
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