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| Stated the United States would supply any nation with economic and military aid to prevent that nation from falling under the Soviet sphere of influence. |
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| The main foreign policy of the United States following World War II which focused on stopping the spread of communism and the influence of the USSR. |
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| After the communist North Koreans invaded South Korea, the United States gave financial and military assistance to the South Koreans under its policy of containment. |
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| A U.S. senator who made statements about alleged communist infiltration of the U.S. government and U.S. Army. These statements led to civil rights violations of those who were communists, were suspected of being communists, or were suspected of knowing someone who might be a communist. |
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| This is the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space. This action by the Soviet Union caused Americans to believe the United States had "fallen behind" the Soviet Union in terms of understanding science and the uses of technology and increased U.S. government spending on education, especially in mathematics and science, and on national military defense programs. |
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| This term describes the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for superior military power. Weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, became increasingly complex and destructive. |
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| This bomb was first tested by the U.S. and then later by the Soviet Union in the early 1950s. The development of this destructive weapon became the basis of "mutually assured destruction." |
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