Ch. 28

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Potsdam Conference

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The first time President Truman had met with Joseph Stalin since President Roosevelt's death.

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Zaibatsu

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Huge corporations run b single families that had monopolized the Japanese economy.

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Nuremberg Trials

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War crime trials that took place in Nuremberg.

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Adolf Eichmann

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An architect of the Jewish extermination program.

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Hideki Tojo

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Japan's premier during the war.

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United Nations

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A postwar international organization.

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Trygve Lie

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Served as the UN's first secretary general.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Former first lady that served as one of the first US delegates to the UN.

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Zionism

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the movement seeking a jewsih homeland in Palestine.

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David Ben Gurion

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Zionist Leader who supported the Zionism idea.

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Ralph Bunche

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US diplomat who persuaded both sides to accept an armistice.

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Cold War

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Competition for global power between the US and Russia

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Satellite natinos

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Poland and Romania

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A state department official

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George Kennan

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Containment

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rstricting the expansion of Soviet communism

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Baruch Plan

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Imposed penalties on countries that did not follow internatino rules

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Atomic Energy Act

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Created AEC to oversee nuclear weapons research and to promote peace time atomic energy

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Truman Doctrine

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Made no mentnio of the soviet union though he had the soviets in mind

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George C Marshall

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Secretary of state that feared that economic problems would make Western Europe more vulnerable to Communists' influence

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Marshall Plan

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Congress funded the European Recovery act.

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Berlin Airlit

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US and British planes carried more than 2 milllion tons of food to west berlin

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NATo

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Warsaw Pact

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The communist alliance in Eastern Europe

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Chiang Kai Shek

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Led the Nationalist party in China

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Mao Zedong

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Communist party leader of China

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Kim II Sung

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The leader of the Democratic Republic of Korea

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Syngman

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Called itself the Republic of Korea

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Douglas MacArthur

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The US Army's Far East commander

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Dwight D Eisenhower

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The hero General and Presidential Candidate

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Brinkmanship

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The ability to get to the verge of war without getting into war

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CIA

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Covert and secretive group

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Soviet leader who stunned political oservers by accusing Joseph Stalin of war crimes

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U2 incident

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A US spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union

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NSC

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Advises the president on strategic matters

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House Un American Activiteis Committee

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Was established to investigate fascist groups

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Hollywood ten w

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went to jail rather than answer HUACs questions

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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Provided the Suviet unino with atomic energy

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Internal Security act

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Required communist party members to register with the fed. govt.

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Joseph McCarrhy

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A us senator from Wisconsin that feuled the intensified communist party

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Margaret Chase Smith

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Senator who challenged McCarthy

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Hydrogen bomb

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H Bomb that was 1000 times more powerful then the bomb on Nagasaki

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Sputnik

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First ratificial satellite

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NASA

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

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NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT

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PRIATED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO IMPROVE ED IN SCHOOL