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Like the Trumen Doctrine but for the middle east
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A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States with this name
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The War Between U.s.a and the Soviet Union
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European Recovery plan
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Gave $400 Million in economic and millitary aid to greece and Turkey
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Stalin cut off supplies in w Berlin
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization collective Security
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President Truman made the H-bomb to counteract the soviets Atom Bomb
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It would only be a matter of months before the U.S.S.R. exploded its own atomic bomb. The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or "First Lightning" (codenamed "Joe-1" by the United States), at Semipalatinsk on
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization to prevent the Domin Theory
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Nixon widened the war in Laos and Cambodia by bombing the Ho Chi Minh trail
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The Vietnam war took place in South Vietnam and the United States chose to help out in trying to stop from Vietnam becoming a Communist country
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The 35th president
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36th president
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Napalm & Agent Orange. Napalm was first used in flamethrowers for U.S. ground troops; they burned down sections of forest and bushes in hopes of eliminating any enemy guerrilla fighters. Later on in the war B-52 Bombers began dropping napalm bombs and other incendiary explosives.
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Nixon is elected in 1968 after Johnson decides not to run for re-election, Nixon promises troop with-drawl and to turn war back over to S. Vietnam. This begins the Vietnamization phase of the conflict
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the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
