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Government official who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
Incident involving U.S. spy plane being shot down over the U.S.S.R.
Leader of the Soviet Union who replaced Stalin.
Nuclear reactor that "melted down" and was a test of the Soviet "glasnost policy."
The U.S., Canada and 10 Western European countries signed a defensive pact.
Provided $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, the formal declaration of the "Cold War."
Proposed the European Recovery Program, won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1953.
Promised the use of military force to protect American interests in the Persian Gulf Region.
Killing of students that helped speed up the end of the Vietnam War.
Law that limits the President's use of military force.
Internal documents which proved the government was lying about Vietnam.
Turning point of the Vietnam War, proved that the war was not winnable.
Strategy to "roll back" Soviet backed communist governments using overt and covert aid.
Scandal by which government officials provided weapons to Iran to gain the release of hostages and money to anti-leftist forces in Nicaragua
Soviet policy of living in peace with non-communist nations.
The murder of 300 Vietnamese civilians by American troops.
relaxation in tension between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
Aid to any Middle Eastern nation that resisted Communism.
The use of the threat of nuclear weapons to prevent the spread of Communism.
policy of reducing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war, turning the war over to the South Vietnamese.