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This war occurred from 1950 to 1953 and consisted of the U.S. and other nations coming to the aid of South Korea after they were invaded by communist North Korea. The U.S. wanted to stop the spread of communism, so they attempted to push North Korea all the way back, but when they reached the border between North Korea and China, China fought back. Americans were forced back into South Korea, so the war saved South Korea but was unable to dislodge the communist regime from the North. An armistice was signed and the agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone to separate North and South Korea and it also allowed the return of prisoners.

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The Cold War was a rivalry that formed after World War II between the United States (and allies) and the Soviet Union (and allies). It was very limited in actual fighting and weapons besides the nuclear aspect that occurred during it. It first started between the U.S. and Soviet Union based off of differing ideologies.
The U.S. believed in capitalism/democracy and the Soviet Union beloved in communism.

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Fidel Castro ran Cuba and he allied himself with the Soviet Union, becoming a communist nation. This meant that the United States has a communist nation less than 100 miles form its shores, which was very unsettling. So, in 1961, 1,500 cuban exiles armed and trained by the CIA (central intelligence agency) tried to stage an invasion at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. The small forced was destroyed by Castro after President Kennedy refused to involve the U.S. Armed Forces. 1200 of the invaders were captured and the United States was forced to give 53 million dollars worth of food and supplies to Cuba for the reales of the captives.

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President Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cuba when it was discovered that the Soviet Union was placing nuclear missiles there; the standoff came seriously close to a nuclear war, but the Soviet Union eventually backed down.

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This is a foreign policy practice in which one or both parties force the interaction between them to the threshold of confrontation in order to gain an advantageous negotiation position over the other (characterized by aggressive risk-taking policy choices). This term was used a lot in the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Cuban Missile Crisis is a great example of Brinkmanship being used.

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After Sputnik I was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, the first satellite into space, Americans and the Soviets raced to be the first to land a man on the moon. This was such an important race to win because whoever got up into space would have control over a completely unwon area which would be very dangerous if the enemy had access to placing satellites all around the U.S.

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This doctrine stated that a middle eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forced if it was being threatened by armed aggression from communists.

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This was when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. tried to hide the fact that the plane was a spy plane, but they had to fess up when the U.S.S.R came to them with a living pilot and a largely intact plane validating their claim of being spied on aerially.

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The Berlin Aircraft was the plane that brought tons of supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union blocked all of the roads and railroad lines going into West Berlin. The U.S. was able to show their technological superiority and make the soviets experience a diplomatic embarrassment.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. It was created to halt the spread of communism to Western Europe from the Soviet-controlled nations of Eastern Europe

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This term applies to a Second Red Scare in the 1950s. Senator Joseph McCarthy would accuse people, mainly government leaders, of being communists with little evidence. Since people's fear of communism was so high during this period, people that were accused faced major consequences and were fired from their jobs (some were even black listed

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This was President Truman's application of the containment policy. It called on the U.S. to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures". Basically, the United States would give military and economic aid to anyone in need of help resisting communism.

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The Marshall Plan was a plan that proved billions of dollars for rebuilding Europe from World War II. This also worked to make communism less appealing in Western Europe. It was created by George Marshal in 1948.

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This was a political, military, and ideological barrier created by the Soviet Union after World War to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies for pen contact with the West and other non-communist areas. It wasn't an actual curtain, it was used as more of a metaphor and also symbolizes the end of the Cold War when it was "shredded down".

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This was the basis of U.S. foreign policy throughout the Cold War. The idea was to stop communism from spreading.