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The first country to develop nuclear weapons and to use them (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
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The point of the United Nations is to maintain international peace.
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The purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to help support Greece and Turkey agaisnt becoming communist due to the Soviets.
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Also known as the European Recovery Program helped stop the spread of communism.
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China became communist because of the weak democratric government.
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The Purpose of NATO was to maintain peace and stability in the country of Europe
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The USSR felt it was necessary to follow pursuit with the United States of America and to develop nuclear weapons just incase something happened.
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Alger Hiss worked for the State Department and was convicted of giving top secret documents to the Soviet Union
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The Korean War was a was between South Korea and NOrth Korea because of communism.
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Became president after Harry S. Truman.
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The Rosenbergs were arrested ande executed for treason.
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The 38th Parrallel which divides North Korea and South Korea
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The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy
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The Vietnam war was started becasue it was an result of the U.S.'s strategy of cointainment during the cold war, which was to prevent communisn from spreading throughout the world.
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President after Dwight Eisenhower
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The bay of pigs occured becasue two CIA agents were caught spying.
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The berlin wall was erected to keep the east germans from escaping the east side of germany.
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USSR were going to deploy missiles into cuba, which is the result of soviet insecurity and the fear of losing cuba in an invasion.
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Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on 11/22/1963
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Lydon Johnson becamse president after John F. Kennedy.
Passed the civils right act of 1964. -
The destroyer USS Maddox was fired on by N. Vietnamese gunboats, which was the start of the gulf of tonkin.
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Richard Nixon became president after Lyndon B. Johnson
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Occured at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio (shootings). As a result of the shooting hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students.
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Ronal Reagan became president after Jimmy Carter.
Helped end the cold war, also aprt of the foreign policy from 1981 to 1989 -
The USSR collapsed for several reasons 1) too much central power over too many local geographic/social areas
2) they had an unsustainable foreign policy. Ultimately it was their invasion of Afghanistan that led to financial ruin
3) Kayensian economic policy
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The berlin wall was torn down to unite east and west Germany.
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The leader of the soviet union (1990), the seventh and last undisputed leader of the soviet union.
