Postwar foundations and the early Cold War

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Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine/Policy of Containment Communism Command Economy Berlin Wall Arms Race Space Race Soviet Union McCarthyism Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Espionage / intelligence Prague Spring Iron Curtain Winston Churchill Harry Truman Nikita Khrushchev NATO Warsaw Pact United Nations UN Security Council Josef Stalin Berlin Wall Hungarian Revolution Fidel Castro National Security Red Scare HUAC Leonid Brezhnev Brezhnev Doctrine (Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty) Detente Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost Perestroika Proxy War Mao Zedong Little Red Book Jiang Jieshi Nationalists Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution Taiwan One China Policy Korean War 38th Parallel Pusan Perimeter DMZ Kim Il-sung Armistice Afghanistan War Reunification of Germany Richard Nixon Henry Kissinger United Fruit Company Guatemala 1954 Coup Chile 1973 Coup Salvador Allende Augusto Pinochet U5. 1 The Start of the Cold War: The Difference between the League of Nations and the United Nations LN was WW1 and UN was WW2 The League was weak and could not enforce decisions; the UN has more power to act the US didn’t join the League but is a key member of the UN The League had no milita...