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15 Cards in this Set
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What was the "Grand Alliance?"
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A nickname for the Allied Forces that defeated Hitler in WWII.
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When did the Korean War start?
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June 1950
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Who did Truman appoint Secretary of State in July 1945?
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James F. Byrnes
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Why did Secretary Byrnes and Truman not get along?
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Byrnes believed that the Democrats should have chosen him to have Truman's job. He also expected good relations with Moscow, something the President did not.
Byrnes had a habit of conducting diplomacy with Stalin and Molotov without Truman's input. He even made announcements without notifying the White House first. |
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Why did the Soviets have a grudge against the US and Great Britain that arose from WWII strategy? Four big reasons.
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The US and Britain delayed opening a second front until 1944.
Because the US had secret surrender talks with Germany, the Soviets suspected the US of considering a separate peace with Germany. While the US told Britain about the Manhattan Project, the Soviets were kept in the dark. The US flaunted the Bomb. |
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What is atomic diplomacy and when was it dropped by Byrnes?
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Using the Bomb for diplomatic leverage. Byrnes tried a new approach in December 1946, but atomic diplomacy surely underlaid relations at this point.
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What did Truman have to say about the way Byrnes conducted business?
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"It was more like one partner in business telling the other that his trip was progressing well and not to worry"
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Why was the 1946 economy in a mess?
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People started buying all the things they could not buy during the Great Depression and WWII.
Also, workers started to strike now that their no-strike pledge was over. |
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How did Truman satisfy business pressures in 1946?
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He disbanded the Office of Price Administration.
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How did prices react to the disbandment of the Office of Price Administration?
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Prices rose by 18 percent.
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What were some extreme solutions Truman had to circumvent striking works?
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Truman considered drafting strikers into the armed forces and making them work. He also wrote a radio address that urged veterans to help lynch union leaders.
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How did Henry Luce respond to Stalin's announcement that WWII was just the next step in a chain of conflicts that would be broken only when the world's economy turned communist?
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He called it "the most warlike pronouncement uttered by any top-rank statesman since V-J Day.
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Who was Henry Luce?
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The influential editor of Time Magazine.
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Who wrote the 8000 word "long telegram?"
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George F. Kennan.
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What was the gist of the long telegram? And what did Kennan mean when he described the Soviet "fig leaf?"
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The Soviets believed that capitalism is contradictory and will be replaced by socialism. There could be no peace between hostile ideologies.
He also said that the ideology was just a "fig leaf" to cover Russia's most recent cruel and wasterful ruler. |
