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a country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control from another country.
rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for decades and resulted in anti-communist suspicions and international incidents that led the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear disaster.
a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe
divided into four zones and occupied by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Between 1947 and 1948, cooperation between these powers broke down. The west decided to create a separate government in their zones.
is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe.
a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
United States began to dismantle the Japanese Empire and return conquered nations to indigenous rule. The United States had given little thought to the Korean peninsula before Japan's surrender.
a war in which the weapons used, the nations or territory involved, or the objectives pursued are restricted in some way
The purpose of the organization was to prevent communism from gaining ground in the region.
a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender
a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.
a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War
to make distinctively national; give a national character to.
central intelligence agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S.
created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.

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