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1 Cold War The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies from the mid 1940s until the early 1990s. Throughout the period, the rivalry between the two superpowers was played out in multiple arenas: military coalitions; ideology, psychology, and espionage; military, industrial, and technological developments, including the space race; costly defense spending; a massive conventional and nuclear arms race; and many proxy wars.

2 Yalta Conference

3 Iron Curtain

4 Berlin Blockade

5 Berlin Airlift

6 Truman Doctrine

7 $ Marshall Plan $

8 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

9 Warsaw Pact – Soviet Union and its allies from eastern Europe

10 NATO/Warsaw Pact

11 United Nations

12 Korean War (UN Police Action) Communist China

13 McCarthyism (Red Scare)

14 Sputnik Fear that the Soviets had Moved ahead of the U.S. in Space technology led to the Creation of National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) and Congress passed The National Defense Education Act (NDEA)

15 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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