Soviet union  - the first country to form a government based on the system known as Communism, cold war - an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II, iron curtain - a metaphor for the extreme political and ideological division that separated Western Europe from the Soviet Union and its satellite states in the east., foreign policy - Preserving the national security of the United States, marshall plan  - proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe., arms race - occurs when two or more countries increase the size and quality of military resources to gain military and political superiority over one another., reparations - a levy on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winning countries, korean war  - conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives, bay of pigs - a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power, hostilities - any conflict subject to the laws of war., Sputnik - any of a series of three artificial Earth satellites, General Secretary Grobachev - He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990 and the only President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991., Counter Cultural Movement - an era of change in identity, family unit, sexuality, dress, and the arts., House Un-American Activities Committee - HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties. Citizens suspected of having ties to the communist party would be tried in a court of law., Vietnam War - a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States., Second Red Scare - The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting American society and the federal government. The name refers to the red flag as a common symbol of communism., McCarthyism - [The American Heritage Dictionary gives the definition of McCarthyism as: 1. The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence; and 2. The use of methods of investigation and accusation regarded as unfair, in order to suppress opposition.], Policy of Brinkmanship - brinkmanship, foreign policy practice in which one or both parties force the interaction between them to the threshold of confrontation in order to gain an advantageous negotiation position over the other., Domino Effect - domino theory, also called domino effect, theory adopted in U.S. foreign policy after World War II according to which the “fall” of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighbouring states., Truman Doctrine - established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian force, Warsaw - a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe:, Space Race - a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight., NATO - a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe, Policy of Containment - the U.S. approach to containing, or preventing, the spread of Communism after World War II., 38th Parellel - popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea, Berlin Airlift - a 1940s military operation that supplied West Berlin with food and other vital goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded the city., Self-determination - a nation—a group of people with similar political ambitions—can seek to create its own independent government or state, Cuban Missile Crisis - a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba, Marshall Plan - proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe,

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