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| a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries. |
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| intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict; sustained hostile political policies and an atmosphere of strain between opposed countries. |
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| an act or policy of restricting the territorial growth or ideological influence of another, especially a hostile nation. |
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| U.S. author and diplomat. |
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| the policy of President Truman, as advocated in his address to Congress on March 12, 1947, to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology. |
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| European Recovery Program. |
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| A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin had cut off its supply routes. The United States joined with western European nations in flying the supplies in. The airlift was one of the early events of the cold war. |
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| an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression. |
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| an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command. |
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| The satellite nations are the regions between Germany and Russia that were formed with the assistance of the UN after the end of WWII. However, Stalin and the communist Soviet Union took these regions over and operated them under a dictatorship. This is the region that Winston Churchill was talking about when he made his "iron curtain" speech. |
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| a relaxing of tension, especially between nations, as by negotiations or agreements. |
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| The nuclear arms race was central to the Cold War. Many feared where the Cold War was going with the belief that the more nuclear weapons you had, the more powerful you were. Both America and Russia massively built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. |
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| autologous bone marrow transplant |
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| SALT I, the first series of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, extended from November 1969 to May 1972. During that period the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments. |
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| The primary goal of SALT II was to replace the Interim Agreement with long-term comprehensive Treaty providing broad limits on strategic offensive weapons systems. |
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| coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade (1948–49), the Chinese Civil War, the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U.S. government officials, and the Korean War. |
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| U.S. general and statesman: Secretary of State 1947–49; Nobel peace prize 1953. |
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| Harry Truman became president of the United States after the death of Franklin Roosevelt on 12 April 1945. |
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| Harry Truman became president of the United States after the death of Franklin Roosevelt on 12 April 1945. |
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| Harry Truman became president of the United States after the death of Franklin Roosevelt on 12 April 1945. |
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| Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53. |
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| British statesman and author: prime minister 1940–45, 1951–55; Nobel prize for literature 1953. |
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