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Cuban Missile Crisis
the closest the world came to nuclear war: 1962
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Berlin Blockade
Stalin sealed off Berlin from anyone outside of the city: 1948
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Berlin Airlift
Truman's response to the blockade; a propaganda success: 1949
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Joseph Stalin
one of the more aggressive leaders of the USSR: ruled 1922-1952
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Harry .S. Truman
an american president who established the Truman doctrine: ruled 1945-1953
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JFK (John.F.Kennedy)
the US president during the Cuban missile crisis: ruled 1961-1963
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MAD (mutually assured destruction)
if one side in the cold war was attacked, it had the right to retaliate with full force
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Nikita Khrushchev
another leader of the USSR, he sought to wipe out Stalin's legacy: ruled 1953-1964
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Stalin sealed off Berlin from anyone outside of the city: 1948

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Berlin Blockade

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Truman's response to the blockade; a propaganda success: 1949

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one of the more aggressive leaders of the USSR: ruled 1922-1952

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Card 5

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an american president who established the Truman doctrine: ruled 1945-1953

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