Beginning of Cold War and 1950s

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To prevent Communists from staging revolutions within developing countries, Eisenhower used

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covert operations through the CIA

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Truman said the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were essential for

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containment

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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were charged with

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passing atomic secrets to the Soviets

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At the Potsdam conference, the United States wanted to allow Germany's economy to recover. What did the Soviet Union want to happen?

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Germany must make reparations

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The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to

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help Western Europe recover after WWII

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When the United States, Great Britain, and France merged their zones in Germany, the Soviet Union responded by

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blockading West Berlin

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The Korean War resulted in

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Containment of communism in its existing boundaries

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The "Iron Curtain" of which Churchill spoke of symbolically

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separated the Communists dominated countries of Eastern Europe from the Western democracies

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What is containment?

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U.S. foreign policy of blocking spread of communism to other nations by the Soviets

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What is brinkmanship?

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U.S. foreign policy of threatening to use all out military aggression against enemy