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The military, economic, and ideological confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union that affected almost every nation in the world.

Important Terms

  • Iron Curtain
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Korean War
  • Vietnam
  • NASA
  • Yalta Conference
  • Chinese Revolution
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Cuban Revolution
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Marshall Plan
  • Iranian Revolution
  • Containment
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  • Student protest movement
  • Richard Nixon
  • Democratic National Convention 1968
  • My Lai Massacre
  • Tet Offensive 1968
  • Television during Vietnam
  • Kent State Massacre
  • The Prague Spring of 1968