American History Cold War
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After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was:
The Soviet Union
What set a precedent for American assistance to anticommunist regimes throughout the world, no matter how undemocratic?
The Truman Doctrine
"Long Telegram"
The message written by George Kennan in 1946 to Truman advising him to contain Communist expansion. Told Truman that if the Soviets couldn't expand, their Communism would eventually fall apart, and that Communism could be beaten without going to war.
NATO:
Was an alliance between the United States and several Western European countries.
The first confrontation of the Cold War took place in:
the Middle East,when Soviet troops occupied northern Iran seeking access to oil fields.