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., 38th Parellel - popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea., Castro - Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba, Bay of pigs - The location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961, House Un-American Activities Committee - 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., Hostilities - hostile behavior; unfriendliness or opposition., Sputnik - each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit., 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 - a culture with values and mores that run counter to those of established society., 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., Vietnam war - A war in Southeast Asia, in which the United States fought in the 1960s and 1970s., NATO - a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe., Cuban missle 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., 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., McCarthyism - a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations., Arms race - 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., Warsaw Pact - a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe, Soviet union - a powerful group of Communist republics (= countries without a king or queen) including Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, and 11 others that existed in Europe and Asia from 1922 to 1991:, Cold war - a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare., domino effect - a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos., Policy of Brinkmanship - a method of behavior, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success., Space Race - the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration., Policy of Containment - the United States would prevent communism from spreading to additional countries, even though it would not challenge communism where it already existed., self determination - the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government., iron curtian - 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., repertations - the compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state., Marshall plan - a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II., Berlin wall - barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989., communism - a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs., Truman doctrine - the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.,

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