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Joseph
His.152
12/3/06
Textbook Assignment, Chapter 28:
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1.Iron Curtain: Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. (p.658)
2.Cold War (1945-1991) The ideological struggle between communist (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile
crisis but never attacked one another. The Cold War came to an end when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. (p.668)
3.NATO: an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
4.United Nations: an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the......

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