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Persian gulf war

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US-led forces liberated kuwait from Iraq in 1992 1991

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Saddam Hussein

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President of Iraq

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Al Qaeda

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The base of the Islamist terrorist organization

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Osama bin laden

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Founder of al queda

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Taliban

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Islamist group that took control overmuch of Afghanistan

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Nonaligned nations

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Nations who refused to Ally was either side in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union

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Détente

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Reduce tension between the United States and Soviet Union

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Martin Luther king jr

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American civil rights leader

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Counterculture

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A rebellion of teenagers and then adults against mainstream American society

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Iron Curtain

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Term by Winston Churchhill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line dividing communist countries

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Truman doctrine

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US Pres. Truman pledged to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communist

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Marshall plan

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Plan for the economic reconstruction of Europe after World War II

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Containment

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The US policy adopted in the 1940s to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets

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Import

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To bring those into a place

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Berlin airlift

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A program in which the US and Britain ships supplies by the air to West Berlin

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Nürnberg trials

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Trials in which an allied like military tribunal tried several dozen top Nazis and military official

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Cold War

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US and Soviets entered an era of tension hostility

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Bay of Pigs invasion

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The failed attempts of Cuban exiles backed by the US to overthrow the Cuban socialist government of Fidel Castro

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Cuban missile crisis

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Confrontation between the US and Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba

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Solidarity

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An independent labor Union founded in Soviet controlled Poland in 1980

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Russian politician

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Perestroika

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Restructuring

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Velvet revolution

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Hey quick peaceful revolution that swept the communist from power in Czechoslovakia

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Boris Yeltsin

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Russian politician and president of Russia

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Ethnic cleaning
Elimination of an ethnic group from society through killing or forced emigrate
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Internet
A system of networks that connects computers around the world
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NATO
NOrth Atlantic treaty organization
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Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of the Soviet dominated countries of Eastern Europe established in 1955
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Hydrogen bomb
A nuclear weapon that gets its power from the fusing together hydrogen Atoms
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Deterrence
The development of or maintenance of military power to prevent an attack
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Arms race
Competition between nations to gain an advantage and weapons
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Sputnik
Histories first artificial satellite that orbits the earth