Cold War Vocabulary (Part I)

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economic and political system where all factories and resources are owned by the government

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Communism

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accusing people of being communist without proof

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McCarthyism

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alliance of USSR and her satellite states against the West

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Warsaw Pact

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alliance of US and Western Europe to defend against the spread of communism

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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hoped to keep Western Europe from turning to communism by providing economic aid

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Marshall Plan

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the state of tension between the 2 superpowers without actual fighting

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Cold War

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World Peace Organization that replaced the League of Nations after WWII

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United Nations

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first “battle” of the cold war in 1948 took place after a Soviet blockade of the city

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Berlin Airlift

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provided military aid to Greece and Turkey to keep them from becoming communist

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Truman Doctrine

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US policy to halt the spread of communism

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Containment