Soviet Union - the first country to form a government based on the system known as Communism, Cold War - A cold war is a state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, propaganda, acts of espionage or proxy wars waged by surrogates., Communism - Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, 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 - designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin, Self-determination - the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government, Policy of Containment - The US policy of containment involved unalterable counterforce over a long period of time, Domino Effect - A domino effect is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a series of similar or related events, a form of chain reaction, Iron Curtain - symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas., Foreign Policy - Foreign policy is the set of goals, strategies, and actions that a state or a non-state actor pursues in its relations with other actors in the international system, Truman Doctrine - the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces., Marshall Plan - The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II. I, NATO - NATO stands for 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization'., Warsaw Pact - a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe, Space Race - a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight, 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., People's Republic of China - China is a unitary one-party socialist republic led by the CCP. It is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council., Korean War - an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies., McCarthyism - a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party., Second Red Scare - McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s., Cuban Missile Crisis - The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War., Bay of Pigs - The location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961., Vietnam War - a long, costly, and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States., Sputnik - spouse or traveling companion.,

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