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The United Nations formed to preserve world peace by promoting international cooperation. The headquarters was located in NYC.
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Power was concentrated in the central gov. rather than in committee workers. Stalin took over and wanted to transform the Soviet Union backward rual nation into a modern industrial giant. Gov. took over all economic planning. 3-8 million people were executed in the Soviet Union
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divided the free world of the West from the Soviet-dominated world of the East
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to keep communism from spreading any farther by containing it to other countries where it had already taken hold. Truman's Containment policy was the first major policy during the Cold War and used numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
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a president who said that he would help any country under the threat of communists
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a result of the first confrontation of the Cold War. Stalin hoped to starve the Allies out of the city
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sent vast amounts of money to 16 nations in Europe for rebuilding
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American and British planes began to airlift food, clothing, medicines and fuel to West Berlin
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the first proxy war in 1950. The argument ending the Korean War left Korea divided as it had been before the war. Americans were pleased that communism had been contained
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communist rebels backed by North Vietnam were waging a guerilla warfare against South Vietnamese gov
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tried to stop East Germans fleeing to West Berlin by putting up a wall between the two parts of the city. The Berlin Wall served as a grim symbol of a divided Europe
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people did not rise up and the invaders were quickly killed or captured. Made the US look like fools
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nuclear weapons and missiles were placed in Cuba that could reach the US. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from delivering anymore missiles. Would remove the missiles in exchange for Kennedy's promise not to invade Cuba
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had no doubts about fighting communism. Increased military spending
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heavy spending had kept the nation from meeting the human needs. Farms and factories owned by the gov. were inefficient and unproductive. Came to power hoping to reform the communist system and make it work better
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a policy which led to increased freedom of the press, speech, and religion
