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| U.S. plan to control communism by preventing its spread |
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| economic assistance from U.S. for anyone |
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| Russia's counteract to the marshall plan-economic support for East Europe (fail) |
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| collective security against communists |
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| Eastern Europe/ Russia vow to fight for other communist countries in trouble |
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| oversee occupation, governing, and monitor release of occupied nations. |
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| counsel of foreign ministry |
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| purges Russian society while in power |
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| "de-stalinizes" Russia, though still committed to communism. Builds the Berlin Wall and is involved in Cuba. |
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| U.S. failed attempt to overthrow Castro |
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| Tightens reigns on Russia |
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| Russia vows to use military force in Eastern Europe if instability ensues. |
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| Russia begins to run in place, overspends and is unable to keep up with U.S. |
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| allows elections, creates congress, takes communism out of government |
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| loosening of restrictions upon society, freedoms and rights under Gorbechev |
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| restructuring of society and government under Gorbechev |
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| Overtakes Gorbechev, outlaws communism |
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| Commonwealth of independent states |
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| Eastern European countries seeking independence that join together against Russia. |
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| 1950–1953 war between United Nations, led by the United States, and North Korea; precipitated by the invasion of South Korea. |
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| The ten-foot-high concrete wall and “death zone” erected by the communist East Germans in 1961 to prevent further illegal emigration to the West. |
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| 1962 crisis created when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev placed nuclear armed missiles in Cuba. America imposed a naval blockade, and a settlement was reached when the missiles were witdrawn in exchange for an American agreement to remove missiles from Turkey. |
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