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• Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. ^[e]
• George Kennan [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Iron Curtain [r]: Add brief definition or description

Adjuncts

• NATO [r]: Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949, with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. ^[e]
• Deterrence [r]: A set of policies and actions that prevent an opponent from taking an undesired action ^[e]
  • Single Integrated Operational Plan [r]: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the U.S. Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance ^[e]
  • Mutual Assured Destruction [r]: A shared strategy between two countries, in which either can continue to do unacceptable damage even if hit by the most powerful counterforce attack by the other ^[e]

Alternatives

• Detente [r]: A transition of the view of U.S. foreign policy from the Cold War model to one based on "realism", and a balance of power among the U.S., U.S.S.R., and China; most associated with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger ^[e]
  • Henry Kissinger [r]: (1923—) American academic, diplomat, and simultaneously Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration; promoted realism (foreign policy) and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War; Director, Atlantic Council ^[e]
• Jacksonian American nationalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Liberal internationalism [r]: A political philosophy that sees the greatest world benefits coming from an active movement to an international order, not necessarily world government ^[e]

• Wilsonianism [r]: Foreign policy principles of President Woodrow Wilson to achieve a world without war; it also assumed altruistic American exceptionalism, opposition to non-democratic rule, national self-determination and opposition to colonial empires; and may involve the use of military force as a last resort, although it did not contemplate preventive war; sometimes called "idealism" in foreign policy, as opposed to a "realistic" foreign policy that seeks to gain specific economic or military benefits for the nation ^[e]
• Vietnam, war, and the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. ^[e]

• Committee on the Present Danger [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dean Rusk [r]: United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1968 in the Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, with extensive Asian experience and a strong advocate of U.S. resistance to Communism in Southeast Asia ^[e]