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Cold War Khalid Howard
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Soviets vs americans
Americans = non communist (capitalist) 
Nato ((North atlantic treaty organization) the millitary organization for the non communist countries of western europe
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Warsaw Pact: the organization of communist nations in Eastern European.This is the communist version of NATO
Domino theory "The US government operated on the theory that is one country became communist,this could influence its neighbors to become communist this was called the domino theory because it pictured one by one, knocking each other over as If they were a line of domino's."
containment "the idea of containment was to not challenge communism where it already existed but to prevent its spread."
Marshall Plan:the US pledges finals support to western European countries to make them stay capitalist and not communist
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nuclear arms race
the competition to make /the most powerful most technologically advanced and the most in quantity of nuclear weapons
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RED Scare
in the 1950 s when there was a large focus on finding communist supporters in american society and government
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Cuban missel crisis
Soviets set up a missle launch site in communist Cuba. this is problamatic becuase Cuba is so close to the US and an ICBM can reach us from there
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space race
The competition to see winch country was the most technologically advanced by sending a human into space
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KOREAN WAR
At the end of WWII, the japenesse controlled Korean perimula was split in half
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Vietnam War
After WWII,Vietnam was split into a north and south
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us troops in vietnam
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victimization the process of getting south Vietnam to take more control of the war while the us would withdraw in own troops.
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