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Containment

Space Race

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

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• Stalin

• Khruschev

• Gorbachev

Soviet leader at start of Cold War

Started Cuban Missile Crisis

Introduced policies of reform to U.S.S.R

• Soviet leader at start of Cold War

• Started Cuban Missile Crisis

• Introduced policies of reform to U.S.S.R

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Soviet Union

NATO

Warsaw Pact

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• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• Containment

• Vietnamization

Truman's policy of containment

A U.S. initiative to aid Western Europe

An event that escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam

Strategy to limit spread of communism

Nixon's policy of reducing U.S. troops

• Truman's policy of containment

• A U.S. initiative to aid Western Europe

• An event that escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam

• Strategy to limit spread of communism

• Nixon's policy of reducing U.S. troops

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• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Korean War

• Fall of Saigon

• Containment

Truman's policy of containment

A U.S. initiative to aid Western Europe

War between North and South Korea

U.S. evacuation from Vietnam

Strategy to limit spread of communism

• Truman's policy of containment

• A U.S. initiative to aid Western Europe

• War between North and South Korea

• U.S. evacuation from Vietnam

• Strategy to limit spread of communism

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• Bay of Pigs

• Brinkmanship

• Arms Race

• Proxy War

Failed Invasion of Cuba

Policy of Threatening War

Competition for Nuclear Arms

Indirect war between U.S. and U.S.S.R

• Failed Invasion of Cuba

• Policy of Threatening War

• Competition for Nuclear Arms

• Indirect war between U.S. and U.S.S.R

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• Truman Doctrine

• Brinkmanship

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• Korean War

Truman's policy of containment

Policy of Threatening War

Alleged attack on U.S. by the Vietnamese

War between North and South Korea

• Truman's policy of containment

• Policy of Threatening War

• Alleged attack on U.S. by the Vietnamese

• War between North and South Korea

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• Space Race

• Sputnik

• Domino Theory

• HUAC

Competition to get into space

First satellite in space

Fear of communism spreading

Investigated suspected Communists

• Competition to get into space

• First satellite in space

• Fear of communism spreading

• Investigated suspected Communists

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• Joseph McCarthy

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

• Duck and Cover Drills

• Bay of Pigs

Spread fear of communists

Executed for spying

School drills in case of nuclear attack

Failed invasion of Cuba

• Spread fear of communists

• Executed for spying

• School drills in case of nuclear attack

• Failed invasion of Cuba

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• Détente

• SALT Treaty

• Gorbachev

• Tear Down This Wall

• Star Wars

Relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR

Reduction in nuclear weapons

Soviet leader who tried to reform gov.

Speech by Ronald Reagan

System of lasers to shoot down missiles

• Relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR

• Reduction in nuclear weapons

• Soviet leader who tried to reform gov.

• Speech by Ronald Reagan

• System of lasers to shoot down missiles