the Cold War

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Berlin Airlift

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Result of Soviets trying to force the West to leave Berlin.

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Truman Doctrine

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Point was to grant economic aid to countries threatened by communism

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to create a buffer zone of friendly governments

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Motivation Soviet leaders had in wanting to control Eastern Europe after WW2

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China

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Country that became Communist in 1949

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domino theory

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If South Vietnam was lost to communism, other Asian countries would also fall to communism.

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the Atlantic Pact

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Another name for NATO

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Mao Zedong

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Chinese Communist leader

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the Great Leap Forward

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Chinese Communists' economic program

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Confrontation b/n U.S. & USSR that came close to starting a nuclear war

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Geneva Peace Accords

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Agreement where Vietnam was divided into two territories