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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba
An incident in May 1960 when a spy plane was shot down over the USSR
An airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of West Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948
President from 1945 to 1953
President from 1953 to 1961
President from 1961 to 1963
The idea that if one key nation in a region fell to control of communists, others would follow like toppling dominoes
A vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government
A highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps.
Rejection of conventional values and the taking of hallucinogenic drugs
A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War.
An apparent difference between what is said or promised and what happens or is true
A rapid increase
Compulsory recruitment for military service
The conference failed to settle most of the important issues at hand
Sign that the United States was committed to winning the “space race” against the Soviets.
A member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam
During this conference, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt discussed Europe's postwar reorganization
A United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Target (a politician or public figure) with a campaign of personal attacks.
An American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union
An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles
Fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations
Western “fascists” from entering East Germany
Each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
An American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957
Formally known as the Treaty of Friendship
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces

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