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Cold war/ Kayden Maratea - Coggle Diagram
red scare
in the 1950s when there was a large focus on finding communist supporters in american society and government
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Soviets vs Americans
soviets = communist 
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Warsaw pact: the organization of communist nations in eastern Europe. This is the communist version of NATO
Americans=non communist
NATO(north Atlantic treaty Organization): the military organization for the non communist countries of Europe
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Domino theory '' the us government operated on the theory that if one country became communist, this could influence its neighbors to become communist. thus was a theory called domino theory because it pictured a series of countries ''falling'' to communism one by one, knocking each other over as it they were a line of dominoes
containment: ''the ideas of containment was not to challenge communism where it already existed but prevent its spread''
Marshall pan: u.s. pledges to financially support (13 billion dollars) to western Europe countries to ,make them stay capitalist not communist
Truman doctrine: pledged that U.S.would fight spread of Communism around the world( Greece and turkey)
the competition to make the most powerful the most technologically advanced and the most in quantity 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 a satellite and a human into space/ the moon
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soviets set up missile launch site in communist Cuba. This is problematic because Cuba is so close to the us and ICBM can reach us from there
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veitnam war
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antiwar protests surged going into 1970's unhappy with things like draft bombings in Cambodia the pentagon paper ect.
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