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26 Cards in this Set
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FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
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met at Yalta , a Soviet port on the black sea and they discussed the issues affecting the postwar world.
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Harry S. Truman
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Took Roosevelt's place when he died in April.
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United Nations
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On June 26, in San Fransisco CA, 50 nations including the soviet union signed this and they hoped this could settle disputes between nations and prevent future wars.
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"iron curtain"
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Churchill in 1946 he declared in a speech in Fulton, Missouri that this had descended on Europe.
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Greece
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the civil war raged here as communist rebels armed by Soviet union attempted to over through the Greek king and his pro western government.
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Turkey
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Soviets put enormous pressure here to give them navel bases on the straits leading to the Mediterranean sea.
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George F. Kennan
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is an American diplomat and an expert on Soviet history and culture.
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containment
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the political and military barrier that isolated Soviet controlled countries of eastern Europe after WW2.
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Truman Doctrine
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is a commitment to help nations threatened by communism and soviet expansion.
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George Marshall
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is the U.S secretary of the state and saw western Europe as strategically important to the U.S.
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Czechoslovakia
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Soviet-supported communists took over this government.
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Berlin
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This German capital loaded deep within Soviet controlled East Germany and was also among the 4 nations.
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Berlin Blockade
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This was Stalin's answer to the West's planes for west Germany.
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airlift
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a system of transporting food and supplies by aircraft into an area otherwise impossible to reach.
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Berlin airlift
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continued day and night for more than 10 months, delivering tons of supplies to west Berlin.
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cold war
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when no fighting is going on but nations still build up their military forces.
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Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic
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Where the 2 nations Germany divided themselves into in October 1949.
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National Security Counsel
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this argued that Americans could not rely on other nations to contain the Soviets and resist the spread of communism.
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Warsaw Pact
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was a defense treaty that had a military force that the Soviet union controlled.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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The agreement stated that an armed attack against one or more of the member nations shall be considered an attack against all.
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NSC-68
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this said that the U.S must actively "foster the seeds of destruction within the Soviet Union"and fight communist movements wherever they arose.
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Palestine
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an area of the British had controlled.
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Israel
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was attacked by Arab armies in the first of six major wars between the Arabs and here.
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China
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is the largest country in Asia and had the mast threatening change.
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Mao Zedong
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this Chinese communist led forces over the armies led by Chiang Kai-shek.
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Chiang Kai-shek
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head of the Chinese government also he retreated with his forces to the island of Taiwan of the southeastern coast of china.
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