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| International organization intended to protect its membership from aggression |
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| Europe's division into mostly democratic West and Communist East |
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| U.S. policy to give aid in the form of food, machinery, other materials, to needy European countries after WW2 |
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| Truman's foreign policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of Communism |
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| Truman's support for countries that rejected Communism. |
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| The political and ideological struggle primarily between the U.S. and the S.U. carried on by means short of military action |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Ten western European nations, U.S., Canada, joined to form a defensive military alliance against Communism |
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| Military alliance of S.U., E. Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania |
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| Those nations not 1st (Western) or 2nd (Communist bloc) |
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| The willingness to go to the brink or edge of war. |
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| 1948-49 American and British assistance to west Berlin because of Soviet blockade |
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| Easing of hostilities between countries |
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| "Openness;" Gorbachev's policy and practice of a more open and consultative government and wider dissemination of information |
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| "Restructuring;" Gorbachev's policy of economic reconstruction in Russia |
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