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| intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict. |
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| the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end |
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| The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits. |
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| represented the U.S. in Prague for a year during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia |
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| a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 |
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| was the large-scale American program to aid Europe |
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| was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first resulting in casualties |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization Insurgent is someone from another country or organization that is installed to fight |
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| They were formerly Nazi occupied, or Nazi supporting countries that had participated in the invasion of the USSR - so there was an element of reparations or revenge. |
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| A decrease in tension during the cold war |
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| was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies |
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| The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile system. |
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National Personal Transportation Study
a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology |
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| was a controversial experiment of negotiations between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev from 1977 to 1979 |
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| Americans began to fear communism, mainly because of the rise of the USSR and Communist China |
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| the U.S. Army Chief of Staff during WWII, the highest ranking U.S. Army officer |
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| saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb |
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| The man who turned the Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at unimaginable human cost |
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| The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill the son of Lord Randolph Churchill. |
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