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Spread Of Communism And Cold War Conflicts

Published on Feb 09, 2016

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Spread of communism and Cold War conflicts vocabulary

Truman Doctrine

-aMercian policy of providing economic and military aid of any county threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
-Eastern Europe
-mostly helped Greece and turkey

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Chinese civil war

-war between communist Mao Zedong and nationalist chasing Kai-shek
-communists took over and made the nationalists retreat to Taiwan

Armaments

-military weapons and equipment

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NASA

-National aeronautics and space administration
-us started in 1958

Demilitarized zone (dmz)

-an area that both militaries required to stay out in order to create a buffer between nations
-in Vietnam, a five mile wide dmz was established between the north and south along he 17th parallel

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Nuclear
proliferation

-the spread of nuclear weapons to new nations

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Nuclear annihilation

-use of full scale nuclear weapons would effectively result n the destruction o both sides