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What is the term for: and independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation?
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Satellite State
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What is the term for: a world-wide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union?
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Cold War
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What is the term for: a term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe?
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Iron curtain
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What is the term for: President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements?
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Truman Doctrine
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What is the term for: policy of keeping communism contained within it's existing borders?
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Containment
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What is the term for: an economic and foreign policy that offered aid to Western European countries after World War II?
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The Marshall Plan
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What is the term for: a program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade?
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Berlin airlift
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What is the term for: military alliance formed to counter Soviet expanison?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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What is the term for: military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states?
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Warsaw Pact
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An American diplomat and a leading authority on the Soviet Union
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George F. Kennan
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He was the Nationalist leader during the Chinese Civil War. Backed by the United States.
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Jiang Jieshi
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He was the Communist leader during the Chinese Civil War. Backed by the Soviet Union.
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Mao Zedong
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The dividing line of North and South Korea.
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38th Parallel
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World War II hero who helped the US come to victory during the Korean War
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Douglas MacArthur
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What is the term for: war fought to achieve only specific goals?
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Limited War
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