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Cold War
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Term | Definition |
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Cold War | (1945-1991)war fought on ideology,between the USSR and the USA |
Iron Curtain | the national barrier separating the Soviet and the West to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. said by British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri,US on March 5,1946 |
Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
Containment | was the first major policy during the Cold War and used numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad |
Marshall Plan | It was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism |
United Nation | an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security |
NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 |
Warsaw Pact |