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| located near Berlin; where Truman and Stalin met to work out a deal on Germany. |
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| Eastern European countries that had to remain Communist and friendly to the Soviet Union. |
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| issued by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin and declared "the right of all people to choose the satallite the form of government under which they will live" |
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| Declaration of Liberated Europe |
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| a Soviet resort on the Black Sea where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to plan the postwar world |
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| an era of confrontation and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from about 1946 to 1990 |
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| By 1945 what did President Roosevelt and his advisers think was the key to keeping the world at peace? |
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| One of the major causes of the Cold War were agrument between the United States and the Soviet Union over reparations and ________. |
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| Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to divide Germany into four zones controlled by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and _______. |
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| The presence of the Soviet army in Eastern Europe ensured that pro-Soviet Communist governments would be established eventually in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and __________. |
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| As the war ended, what two factors influenced the Soviet leadlers' thinking? |
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| the effort to secretly weaken a society and overthrow its government |
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| blackening reputations with vague and unfounded charges |
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| built to protect people from the radiation left over after nuclear blast |
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| In the 1950, with the Korean War underway and McCarthy and others arousing fears of communist spies, Congress passed the Internal Security Act, usually called the |
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| What did President Truman establish in early 1947 to screen all federal employees? |
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| In 1949 the Red Scare intensified even further when the Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb, and the Chinese fell to ________? |
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| In 1953 Americans were shocked when the Soviets tested the _____________. |
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| What was the name of the project that cracked the Soviet spy code, which confirmed extensive Soviet spying? |
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| keeping communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions |
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| the Soviet zone in Germany |
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| a war fought to achieve a limited objective such as containing communist |
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| gave European nations American aid to rebuild their economies |
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| when cargo planes supplied Berliners with food, medicine, and coal |
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| To prevent a Communist revolution in Asia, the US sent $2 billion in aid beginning in the mid-19402 to _________. |
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| Chiang Kai-shek's forces. |
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| Where was the first of a string of crises that erupted in the spring, and summer of 1946? |
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| Where did Truman order US naval and air power into action because he thought the Communist invastion of that country was a test of the containment policy? |
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| The US, Great Britain, and France, merged their zones to form West Germany and allowed the Germans to have their own |
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| After the Korean War began, the US embarked on a major |
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| formal face-to-face meeting of leaders from different countries to discuss important issues |
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| policy threatening to use nuclear weapons if a Communist state tried to seize territory by force |
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| countries with primarily agricultural economies |
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| military-industrial complex |
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| a relationship that developed between the military establishment and the defense industry |
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| the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth |
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| What did Congress create to coordinate research in rocket and space technology? |
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| National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| When Eisenhower declared a "New Look" was needed, he meant a new look in |
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| To prevent Communist revolutions in other countries, Eisenhower decided to convert, or hidden, operations conducted by the |
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| What island, which Eisenhower saw as part of the "anti-Communist barrier," did the Chinese threaten to seize in 1954? |
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| Who emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union three years after Stalin died? |
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| term used by Jesse Jackson for a broad group of minorities and the poor |
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| openness; a principle of Gorbachev's plan |
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| tax paid by businesses and investors when they sell stocks or real estate for a profit |
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| laying off workers and managers to become more efficient |
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| While President Bush struggled to deal with events in Eastern Europe and China, a crisis developed in |
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| By what means were Communist rulers replaced with democratically elected governments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria? |
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| Who sent his army to invade oil-rich Kuwait in August 1990? |
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| In late December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of the |
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| In May 1989, students and workers held demonstrations for democracy in |
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| banned the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere |
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| astronaut who stepped onto the moon |
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| national commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy |
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| Program aimed at helping less developed nations fight poverty |
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| Cuban exiles who were secretly trained and armed by the CIA |
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| On April 17, 1961, armed Cuban exiles landed on South coach of Cuba at |
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| The man accused of killing President Kennedy appeared to be a confused and embittered Marxist named |
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| On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced theat American spy planes had taken aerial photographs showing that the Soviet Union had placed long-range missiles in |
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| President Kennedy pushed for a buildup of conventional troops and weapons that would allow the US to fight a limited syle of warfare with |
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| To improve relations between the US and Latin America, President Kennedy proposed a series of cooperative aid projects with Latin American governments called |
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