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leader of the United States during the Cold War; known for Bay of Pigs disaster, Cuban
Missile Crisis, successful decision to blockade Cuba, and making the moon a goal in the Space Race |
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communist leader of Cuba that sided with the Soviet Union after the U.S supported a failed
revolution and had the Soviet Union place missiles there beginning the Cuban Missile Crisis |
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| Soviet leader that placed missiles in Cuba helping to begin the Cuban Missile Crisis |
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| senator that accused people of being communists without proof |
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| communist leader of North Vietnam |
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competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for world power and beliefs which
did not include direct fighting between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
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economic system in which the means of production, distribution, and exchange are privately
owned and operated |
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economic system where all property is owned by the community as a whole and people
have equal status |
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| U.S. foreign policy that wanted to stop the spread of communism |
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name given to the division of Europe between Western Europe and communist Eastern
Europe |
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| refusing to hire suspected communists |
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refers to Senator McCarthy’s anti-communist actions, now refers to making accusations
without proof and included a changing number of suspected communists |
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U.S. and other Allied nations flew supplies into Berlin to keep it free in response to Stalin’s
attempts to blockade it |
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Race between the Soviet Union and the United States to have superior nuclear
weapons; it begins after the Soviet Union explodes their own atomic bomb |
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actual wall that was created by the Soviets to divide West Berlin from communist East Berlin; it
became a symbol for the Cold Wa |
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crisis that developed in Cuba after the Soviets placed missiles there; it is the closest
the world came to nuclear war; resulted in “hotline” and Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty |
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Race between the Soviet Union and the United States to be number one in space
technology; Soviets made most gains early on, but U.S. won with Apollo 11 moon landing; the race to the moon was one of Kennedy's main goals |
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| developed in U.S. because of the more powerful H-bombs, warnings given by the government and the reality that radiation could cause illness an kill you |
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| due to the worsening economies of communist nations and the U.S.’s ability to out spend the Soviet Union |
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