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Cold War / Mahlet Bemnet
Soviets vs. Americans
Soviets = Communists
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Warsaw Pact: the organization of communist nations in Eastern Europe. This is the communist version of NATO.
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Korean war
At the end of WW1, the Japenese controlled Korean Peninsula was split in half.
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Space Race
The competition to see which country was the most tech nologically advanced by sending a satellite and a human into space/the moon
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets set up missle 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
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Germany is divided into communist East Germany, and non-communist West Germany.
The Berlin Wall represented communist repression, The West was much nicer than the East, but the Soviets didn't want people to leave East Berlin.
Vietnam War
After WWll, Vietnam was split into North and South.
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Vietnamization: The process of getting South Vietnam to take more control of the war, while the U.S would withdrae it's own troops.
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U.S troop involvment increases in 1964 because of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (U.S ship was allegedly attacked)
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Nuclear Arms Race
The competition to make the most powerful, most technologically advanced, and the most in quanity of nuclear weapons.
Atomic bomb, Hydrogen bomb, nuclear bomb, ICBM
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"Domino Theory:"The U.S. goverment operated on the theory that if one country became communist, this could influence it's neighbors to become communist. This was called the domino theory because it pictured a series of countriess "falling" to communism one by one, knocking each other over as if they were dominos."
Containment:"The idea of containment was to not challenge communism where it already existed but to prevent it's spread."
Marshall 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's when there was a larg focus on finding communist supporters in American society and goverment.
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