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| President Harry Truman pledges support for countries fighting communism. | |
| The U.S. Secretary of State plans to send aid to European countries to revive themselves after WWII. | |
| The U.S. congress investigates members of the state department and Hollywood for ties to communism. | |
| The U.S. sends supplies to West Berlin via air over a Soviet Blockade. | |
| Capitalist allies band together to protect themselves from communist threats. | |
| Communists and capitalists in Korea battle for control in this war; it ends in a stalemate. | |
| Communist version of question number 5. | |
| Communists and capitalists battle for control of Vietnam, prompting the U.S. first to send military advisers and then combat troops to help the capitalists. | |
| Chinese communist party leader Mao Zedong takes control of China, later implementing this infamous set of Chinese reforms. | |
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| This Latin American country's uprising, led by Fidel Castro, ousts its dictatorship for a communist government. | |
| The U.S. fails to overthrow Cuba's communist government. | |
| East Germany walls itself from West Germany to keep its citizens from emigrating. | |
| The Soviet Union sends weapons to Cuba, who targets them at the U.S. The U.S. then blockades them until Cuba and the U.S.S.R. backs down. | |
| Mao Zedong implements this infamous set of Chinese reforms to reassert his beliefs. | |
| Using this form of diplomacy, U.S. President Richard Nixon negotiates the opening of relations with China. | |
| New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev institutes these reforms on the U.S.S.R. (Type each one with spaces in between) | |
| This country collapses, ends its communist state, and splits up, ending communism in the iron curtain, the Warsaw Pact, and effectively the Cold War. | |
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