COMMUNISM - SYSTEM IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT OWNS ALL OF THE BUSINESSES AND LAND; THE PEOPLE DO NOT VOTE, NATO - NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION FORMED AFTER WW2 TO STOP THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM, SUPERPOWERS - THE MOST POWERFUL NATIONS IN THE WORLD, FREE ENTERPRISE - PEOPLE ARE FREE TO OWN PROPERTY AND START THEIR OWN BUSINESSES, COLD WAR - STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE US AND SOVIET UNION THAT WAS FOUGHT WITH WORDS, IDEAS, AND MONEY, BUT NO BATTLE, WARSAW PACT - MILITARY ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE SOVIET UNION AND OTHER EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE COLD WAR, BERLIN AIRLIFT - THE US AIDED WEST BERLIN BY FLYING IN FOOD AND FUEL WHEN SOVIET TROOPS CUT OFF THE CITY'S SUPPLY, BERLIN WALL - BARRIER THAT DIVIDED COMMUNIST EAST BERLIN FROM NON-COMMUNIST WEST BERLIN FROM 1961-1989, TRUMAN DOCTRINE - US POLICY PROMISING TO HELP COUNTRIES THAT THE SOVIET UNION TRIED TO TURN COMMUNIST, DOMINO THEORY - THE BELIEF THAT IF SOUTH VIETNAM FELL TO THE COMMUNISTS, OTHER PARTS OF ASIA WOULD ALSO BECOME COMMUNISTS, JOSEPH MCCARTHY - SENATOR THAT HEADED A MOVEMENT TO FIND ANY COMMUNISTS WITHIN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY, RED SCARE - PERIOD OF PANIC AND FEAR THAT COMMUNISM WAS SPREADING IN THE US, KOREAN CONFLICT - WAR BETWEEN SOUTH KOREA, SUPPORTED BY US, AND NORTH KOREA, SUPPORTED BY CHINA, NUCLEAR ARMS RACE - RACE TO BUILD MORE AND BETTER WEAPONS THAN THE ENEMY, SPACE RACE - RACE BETWEEN THE US AND SOVIET UNION TO EXPLORE OUTER SPACE DURING THE COLD WAR, NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV - LEADER OF THE SOVIET UNION AND HEAD OF TH SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY DURING THE COLD WAR, CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS - TENSION BETWEEN THE US AND THE SOVIET UNION IN 1962 OVER NUCLEAR MISSILES IN CUBA, JOHN F. KENNEDY - 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE US, PRES. DURING CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, LYNDON JOHNSON - PRESIDENT AFTER JFK AND THROUGH MUCH OF THE COLD WAR, VIETNAM WAR - CONFLICT IN THE 60S AND 70S; THE US SENT SOLDIERS TO SOUTH VIETNAM TO TRU TO PREVENT COMMUNISM FROM TAKING OVER THE NATION, IRON CURTAIN - IMAGINARY LINE THAT DIVIDED EUROPE BETWEEN COMMUNIST AND NON-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES. WINSTON CHURCHILL FIRST USED THE TERM,

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