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Cold War/ Julien Vazquez
Domino Theory. The U.S. government operated on the theory that if one country becomes communist, this could influence it´s neighbor to become communist. This was called the domino theory because it pictured a series of countries ¨falling¨ to communism one by one, knocking each over as if they were dominos
Containment -¨the idea of containment was not to challenge communism where it already existed but to prevent it´s spread¨
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Marshall Plan-´The U.S. pledges financial support to Western European countries to make them stay capitalist, and not communist.
Solviets = Communists 
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Warsaw Pact- The organization of communist nations of Eastern Europe. This is the communist version of NATO
American= Capitalism
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) The military organization for the non communist countries of Western Europe.
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Berlin Conflict
Berlin is divided in communist East Germany, and non communist West Germany
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Red Scare
In the 1950´s when there was a large focus on finding communist supporters in american society an government
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Nuclear Arms Race
The competition to make the most powerful, most technologically advanced and the most in quality of nuclear weapons
Atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, nuclear bomb, ICBM
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space race
The competition to see which country was the most technologically advanced by sending satellites and a human into space/ the moon
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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 the ICBM can reach us from there.
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Korean War
At the end of of WWII, the Japanese controlled Korean peninsula was split in half
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