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a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.
a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.
Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin.
an intergovermental organization tasked to promote internatonal co operation and to create and maintain international order
a notional barrier seporating the former soviet bloc and the west prion to the decline of communision that followed the political everts in eastern europe in 1989
was first used to describe certain nations in the Cold War.
a neutral area serving to separate hostile forces or nations.
the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
n American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $110 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
a cornerstone of transatlantic security during the Cold War, has significantly recast its role in the past twenty years.
known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration.
the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.
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
An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers (1929-77).

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