False. They are based on folklore and superstition.
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The principles of collective security and deterrence have directed the U.S's foreign policy since World War II. Collective security is plan for preserving peace through a union of sovereign
states, whose members pledge themselves to defend each other against attack. Deterrence<span> is a strategy aimed at deterring an adversary from taking an action through instilling fear of the ramifications of such action.</span>
The Iron Curtain<span> was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states.</span>