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Cold War/ Michael Cancel, Berlin Conflict - Coggle Diagram
Cold War/ Michael Cancel
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Vietnam War
After WWll, Vietnam was split into North and South
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Victimization, The process of getting South Vietnam to take more control of the war, while the U.S would withdraw its own coops.
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Nuclear Arm Race
The competition to make the most powerful, most technologically advanced, and the most in quantity of nuclear weapons
Atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, nuclear bomb, ICBM
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets set up missile launch site in communist Cuba. This is problematic because Cuba is so close to the U.S. and an ICBM can reach us from there.
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Berlin Conflict
Germany is divided into communist East Germany, and non- communist West Germany
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Berlin Airlift, U.S. Air Force flies supplies into West Berlin during the Berlin Blockade
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The Berlin Wall represented communist repression. The West was much nicer than the East but the Soviets didn't want people to leave East Britain
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Domino Theory "The U.S. government operated on the theory that if one country became communist this could influence its neighbors to become communist. This was called the domino theory because it pictured a series of countries "falling" to communism one by one, knocking each other over as if they were a line of domino's"
Containment: "The idea of contaminate was to not challenge communism where it already existed but to prevent its spread"
Marshal Plan: The U.S pledges financial support to Western European countries to make them stay capitalist and not communist.
Truman Doctrine: Pledged that the U.S. would fight the spread of communism worldwide (Turkey and Greece).
Red Scare
In the 1950 when there was a large focus on finding Communist supporters in America society and government
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