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Yalta Conference

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The Yalta conference main purpose was to plan the finale defeat and division of Nazi Germany

United Nations

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An international governing body formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries

Satelite nations

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Eastern European nations that were allied with and under the control of Soviet Union during the Cold War

Containment

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A geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United Stated during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War 2.

Iron Curtain

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An imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War 2 in 1945 until the end of the cold war in 1991

Truman Doctrine

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A policy which stated that the US would give aid to any country threatened by communism

Marshall Plan

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A US sponsored program granting $13 billion in foreign aid to European countries that had been devastated physically and economically by World War 2

Berlin Airlift

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An operation that carried food, fuel and other supplies into West Berlin by plane

Berlin Wall

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A guarded concrete barrier that divided the east and west sectors of Berlin to stop the flow of refugees

NATO

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several other European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union

Warsaw Pact

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A peace treaty established by the Soviet Union and 7 other satellite states

Korean War

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A War between north and south Korea

38th Parallel

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The divide between north and south Korea

DMZ

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A demilitarized zone

HUAC

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House Un-American Activities Committee investigated disloyal and rebel activities of the citizens

Red Scare

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A period in the United States when everyone was caught up in the containment of communism

The Rosenbergs

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Julias and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for the conspiracy to commit espionage under the US espionage act of 1917

McCarthyism

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An attack on individuals on suspected beliefs

H-bomb

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A hydrogen nuclear bomb

Dwight D

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American military officer and the 34th president of the United States

Eisenhower

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Planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War 2

CIA

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certified intelligence agency

Nikita Krushchev

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the new leader of geremany after the death of stalin

sputnik

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the first earth satellite

baby boom

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following WW2 the united states had a great increase in birth rate.

John F. Kennedy

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the 35th president of the united staes also the younges.

fidel castro

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new leader of cuba. USA doesnt like him

bay of pigs

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a misson sent by the united states to kill fidel castro

cuban missle crisis

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closest we have ever been to a nuclear warfare Russia put missiles next to us and the united states had missiles in Cuba

lydon B. Johnson

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a united states president that fought for civil rights, education, medical care and urban problems.

ho chi mihn

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the communist leader of north Vietnam

domino theory

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When one nation falls to communism the impact weaken the resistance of other countries and facilitate their fall to communism

Geneva Accords

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The french agreed to draw there troops from Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem

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The leader of south Vietnam

Vietcong

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Communist Vietnamese people

Ho Chi Minh Trail

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A trail that connected south and north Vietnam

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

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Gave the US president all authority to increase US involvement in the war between north and south vVetnam

Napalm/Agent Orange

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Chemical warfare used by the US against Vietcong

Draft

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a selection a citizens to help military fight

TET Offensive

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a stellmate fight for the united states

Richard Nixon

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the 37th president that presided over the Apollo 11 moon landing ending the space race.

Vietnamization

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The united states withdrawing all troops from vietnam.

May Lai

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United States troops massacring 250 women kids and men because they thought they were vietcong

Kent state

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4 college students who were shot and killed by the us government for trying to set fire to the recruitment center. people were dying to get America out of Vietnam

Pentagon Pappers

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Reporters found petagon papers showing united states was bombing Cambotia and Loas be-hide peoples backs

War Powers Act

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Designed to limit the united states president ability to escalate military actions unless its nation emergency.