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Cold War/Kate Diqui, U.S Troops in Vietnam, Vietnam War, Nuclear Arms Race…
Cold War/Kate Diqui
After WWll, Vietnam was split into north and south.
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Antwar protests surged going into the 1970's uhappy with things like drafts, the bombings in Cambodian the pentagon papers,etc.
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Soviets V.S Americans
Soviets=Communists 
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Warsaw Pact:The organization of Communist nations in Eastern Europe. This is the Communist version of NATO.
Americans=Non Communists
NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)Military organization for the non communist counties of Western Europe,
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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 communists. 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 containment wwas to not challenge communism where it already existed but to prevent its spread."
Marshall Plan: The U.S pledges financial support to Western European countries to make them stay capitalistic,and to communistic
Truman Doctrine:Pledged that the U.S. would fight the spread of Communism worldwide (Turkey and Greece).
The competition to see which country was the most technologically advanced by sending a satellite and a human into space/ the moon.
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Korean War
At the end of WWll, the Japanese controlled Peninsula was split in half.
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Atomic bomb,hydrogen bomb,nucler bomb
The competition to make the most powerful,most technology advanced, and the most in quantity of nuclear weapons.
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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