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Post-WWII Superpowers
- United States
- British Empire
- USSR
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European Recovery Program (ERP).
Marshall offered American financial aid for a programme of European economic recovery.
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Satellite States
refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy political and economic influence or control by another country
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Sphere of Influence (SOI)
is an area or region over which a state or organization has significant cultural, economic, military or political influence.
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Berlin Airlift Crisis
response to the blockade set by Stalin to carry goods throughout Berlin
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Containment
policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism
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Domino theory
that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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Truman Doctrine
was a policy set forth by President Harry S Truman
states that U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere
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Hydrogen Bomb
H-bomb weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes
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ICBMs
Intercontiental Ballistic Missile
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United Nations
Repalced the League of Nations after WWII created to stop wars on countries and provide a place where they could discusss their issues
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NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- A system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
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Warsaw Pact
*Communist version of NATO*
a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states inEastern Europe
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First World Country
has a very advanced economy and very high Human Development Indices
The US and its allies (Britan,France)
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Second World Country
- describe the communist states within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence or those countries that had centrally-planned economies.
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Third World Country
- define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO
- or communism and the Soviet Union
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Proxy Wars
results when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.
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National Security State
referrs to the ideology and institutions (CIA, Dept. of Defense) established by the National Security Act of 1947
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The Second Red Scare
national and foreign communists influencing society or infiltrating the federal government, or both (after WWII)
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Dwight Eisenhower
- 34th president, after Truman and before Kennedy in office during
- operation overlord
- D Day
- Pearl Harbor
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Cuban Missile Crisis
was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War.
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