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| Communism | the Marxist-Leninist version of a classless society in which capitalism is overthrown by a working-class revolution that gives ownership and control of wealth and property to the state. |
| Mobilize | To organize people or resources to be ready for action |
| Centralized Government | to remove political or administrative power from local or subordinate levels and concentrate it in a central authority. |
| atomic bomb | an explosive device whose destructive power is due to the uncontrollable release of energy from the fission of heavy nuclei |
| Nuclear Deterrence | the policy of discouraging enemy attack by maintaining sufficient military force to retaliate through the build-up of powerful atomic weapons. |
| United Nations | an organization of nations that was formed in 1945 to promote peace |
| (Nuclear) Proliferation | the rapid spread or increase of atomic weapons. |
| Holocaust | the systematic extermination of millions of European Jews |
| COLD WAR | the hostile yet nonviolent relations between the former Soviet Union and the United States |
| Yalta Conference | World War II meeting (February 4-11 |
| Iron Curtain | policy of isolation set up by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) after World War II (1939-45) that involved rigid censorship and restrictions on travel. This acted as a barrier to communication and the free exchange of ideas between the USSR (and its satellite states) and the rest of the world. |
| NATO | regional defense alliance created for the purpose is to enhance the stability |
| Truman Doctrine | policy to send U.S. aid to anti-Communist forces in Greece and Turkey and expanded to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period. |
| George Kennan | American diplomat who believed that the proper U.S. response to Soviet expansionism was containment. |
| Domino theory | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia and that political events can trigger off a chain of others. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American military leader and 34th president of the United States (1953-1961). |
| Harry Truman | 33rd president ofthe United States that initiated the foreign policy of containing Communism. Made the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb ending WWII. |
| Winston Churchill | British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom. Described Soviet communism as, an "Iron Curtain". |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist Party leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 to 1953. |
