Cold War Talks

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Cold War Talks
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Cold War

• The Competition that developed between the U.S.
  and the USSR for power and influence in the world.

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Collective Security

• Mutual Military Assistance

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Arms Race

• The Struggle to gain weapons superiority.

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Nuclear Deterrence

• The policy of making the military power of the
  U.S. and its allies so strong that no enemy would
  dare attack for fear of retaliation.

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Iron Curtain

• The area of Communist domination and oppression.
  First used by Winston Churchill in March 1946 in
  Fulton Missouri, An iron curtain has descended
  across the continent

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Containment

• The American Policy of trying to stop the spread
  of Communism from spreading to any other parts of
  the World.

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Warsaw Pact

• A response to NATO that consisted of the Soviet
  Union and its satellite nations in Eastern Union.

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Brinkmanship

• Risking nuclear war to protect American national
  interest

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Domino Theory

• If one of Southeast Asian nations falls to
  Communism, the others would also fall.

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NATO

• A protective alliance that included the US, and
  its allies and agreed that an armed attack
  against one or more of them shall be considered
  an attack against them all.