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39 Cards in this Set
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Senate investigation tying US loans to Allies as cause of US involvement
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Nye Committee
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leader of the nationalist Chinese
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Appeasement
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giving in to demands to avoid armed conflict, Munich Conference
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Blitzkrieg
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lightning war, Germany's fast military attack
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Axis
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alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan
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America First Committee
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group pledged to keeping US neutral in WW2
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Atlantic Charter
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Allied goals for post-WW2
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War Production Board
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government agency regulating industrial production in WW2
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Genocide
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intent to destroy a ethnic, national, or religious group
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D-Day
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Allied invasion of France, 6/6/44
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Stalingrad
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battle between Soviets and Germans in WW2, blood battle in human history?
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister of Great Britain during WW2
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Battle of the Bulge
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last major German offensive of WW2
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Manhattan Project
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secret US development of atom bomb
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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chief scientist in development of atom bomb
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Stalin
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dictator of Soviet Union
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Superpowers
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nation of highest rank, capable of influencing events
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Satellites
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nation that is dominated politically by another nation
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Nuremberg Trials
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leaders of Nazi Germany were judged for war crimes
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Containment
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US policy attempt to keep communism from spreading
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Truman Doctrine
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foreign policy of containment of communism
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Marshall Plan
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US policy attempts to rebuild post war Europe
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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US and European Allies
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Warsaw Pact
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Soviet Union and her European Allies
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Collective security
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multinational alliance for military security
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Mao Tse-tung
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leader of communist China
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Limited War
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military action short of nuclear exchange, keep wars small scale
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Truman-MacArthur
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Truman was forced to fire his top general during Korean War
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Ho Chi Minh
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leader of communist North Vietnam
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Khrushchev
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leader of Soviet Union during Cold War
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Nasser
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leader of Egypt, nationalized Suez Canal causing multinational dispute
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Eisenhower doctrine
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nations that took a stand against communism would receive aid
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U-2 Incident
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US spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union
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Bay of Pigs
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US sponsored a failed invasion of Cuba in 1961
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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dispute between US and Soviets when nuclear weapons were placed in Cuba
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ICBM
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Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, long range nuclear weapon
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Office of Price Administration
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govt agency to stabilize prices and rent in WW2
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Berlin blockade
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Soviet attempt to starve Allies out of Berlin
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War Labor Board
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organization to arbitrate disputes between labor and business
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