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Containment: Prevent the spread of communism

Communism: Government owns all property and sharing profits across community as a whole

Capitalism: is a social system based on the principle of individual rights.

Dictator: ruler with total power over a country.

Berlin Wall: a guarded concrete wall, 28 miles (45 km), with minefields and controlled checkpoints, erected across Berlin by East Germany in 1961 and dismantled in 1989.

Superpower: A very powerful nation.

Korean War: conflict involving U.S.-led UN forces against North Korea and China

Brinkmanship: policy of going to the brink of war to combat communism

Truman Doctrine: Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces

McCarthyism: practice of investigating and accusing persons in positions of power or influence of disloyalty, subversion, or treason

Democracy: A system of government by the whole people or through elected representatives

Nuclear Weapons: A bomb or missile that uses nuclear energy. U.S. and Soviet Union competed to see who could make better ones.

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