Cold War - a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare., Communism - a left-wing sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement, Reparations - the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged., Berlin Wall - a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany., Self-determination   - the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government, Policy of Containment - the U.S. approach to containing, or preventing, the spread of Communism after World War II, Iron Curtain - 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., Foreign Policy - a government's strategy in dealing with other nations., Truman Doctrine - the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection, Marshall Plan - an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe., NATO - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Policy of Brinkmanship - a form of aggressive diplomacy 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, Warsaw Pact - formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War, Space Race - the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration., 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., Peoples Republic of China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world., Korean War - was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953, McCarthyism - the practice of making false or unfounded accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to anarchism, communism, and socialism, and especially when done in a public and attention-grabbing manner, Second Red Scare - a fear-driven phenomenon brought on by the growing power of communist countries in the wake of the Second World War, Cuban Missile Crisis - major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba, Bay of Pigs - a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles, covertly financed and directed by the United States. It was aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government., Vietnam War - a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, 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 - 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, Counter Cultural Movement - a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores, Hostilities - hostile behavior; unfriendliness or opposition or acts of warfare , Castro - a Romance language word that originally derived from Latin castrum, a pre-Roman military camp or fortification, House Un-American Activities Committee - House Un-American Activities Committee, 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 - a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. The 38th parallel north formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War,

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