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The Cold War
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Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948) The Yalta Conference and Soviet control of Eastern Europe
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Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948) Rivalry between the United States and the U.S.S.R. Democracy and the free enterprise system vs. dictatorship and communism
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Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948) President Truman and the Policy of Containment
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Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948) Eastern Europe –Soviet satellite nations –The Iron Curtain
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Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vs. the Warsaw Pact
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Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Korean Conflict
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Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Vietnam War
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Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Berlin and significance of Berlin Wall
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Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Cuban Missile Crisis
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Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989) Nuclear weapons and the theory of deterrence
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Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1989- ) Soviet economic collapse Nationalism in Warsaw Pact countries Tearing down of Berlin Wall
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Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1989- ) Breakup of USSR Expansion of NATO
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Containment Policy for preventing the expansion of communism
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Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in China Division of China into two nations at the end of the Chinese civil war Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)- Nationalist China (island of Taiwan)
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Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in China Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong)- Communist China (mainland China) Continuing conflict between the two Chinas Communist China’s participation in Korean Conflict
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Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in Vietnam Role of French imperialism Leadership of Ho Chi Minh
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Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in Vietnam Vietnam as a divided nation Influence of policy of containment
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Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in Vietnam The United States and the Vietnam War –Political cartoon by John Frith The Herald, June 1968 from the National Library of Australia
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Conflicts and Revolutionary Movements in Vietnam Vietnam as a reunited communist country today
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