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33 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam Conference
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Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's victory over the Conservatives — gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on May 8 (V-E Day). The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of war
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Iron Curtain
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two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989.
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO
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1948 Election
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considered by most historians as the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction (with or without public opinion polls) indicated that incumbent President Harry S. Truman would be defeated by Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Truman won, overcoming a three-way split in his own party. Truman's surprise victory was the fifth consecutive win for the Democratic Party in a presidential election. As a result of the 1948 congressional election, the Democrats would regain control of both houses of Congress
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Douglas MacArthur
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a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign. Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and Douglas MacArthur were the first father and son to each be awarded the medal. He was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of general of the army in the U.S. Army, and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army
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“Self Determination’
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the principle in international law, that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or external interference
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Lend Lease Aid
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United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945
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Taft Hartley Act
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United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions. The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and legislated by overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947; labor leaders called it the "slave-labor
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McCarthyism – Joseph McCarthy
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belief that the person involved is disloyal to the Government of the United States."
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Adlai Stevenson
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served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 and 1956; both times he was defeated by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower
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covert actions
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aim to fulfill their mission objectives without any parties knowing who sponsored or carried out the operation.
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Sputnik
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Space Race was a mid-to-late twentieth century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (USA) for supremacy in outer space exploration. The race was both ideological and technological, and it involved pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites
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Francis Gary Powers
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was an American pilot whose CIA[1] U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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intercontinental ballistic missile
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ballistic missile with a long range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads).
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Bernard Baruch
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Baruch to serve as a staff member at the Paris Peace Conference.
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George Marshall
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an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense
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Dean Acheson
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an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War.[1] Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and played a central role in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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George Kennan
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the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the Western powers
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Andrei Gromyko
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a Soviet statesman from the beginning to the end of the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR from 1957 to 1985, and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, from 1985 to 1987
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Chiang Kai-Sheik
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He was an influential member of the nationalist party Kuomintang (KMT) and Sun Yat-sen's close ally. He became the Commandant of Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place in the party when the latter died in 1925. In 1928, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country, becoming China's overall leader. He served as chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1948. Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War,
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Mao Tse-Tung
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As many as 45 million deaths from starvation during the 'Great Leap Forward'. Tens of thousands killed and millions of lives ruined during the 'Cultural Revolution'
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Ho Chi Minh
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prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He formed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War until his death.
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Vietminh
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a national independence movement founded in South China on May 19, 1941
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Nikita Khrushchev
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led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War
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NSC – 68
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a 58-page formerly-classified report issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. Written during the formative stage of the Cold War, it was top secret until the 1970s when it was made public. It was one of the most significant statements of American policy in the Cold War. NSC-68 largely shaped U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War for the next 20 years.
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National Security Council
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foreign policies
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National Security Act 1947
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reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War 1.
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Containment
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the holding of information,
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Marshall Plan
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European Recovery Program
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Suez Crisis
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Tripartite Aggression
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Gamal Nasser
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second President of Egypt, during the world war
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Alger Hiss
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involved in the establishment of the united nations during the world wars.
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Truman Doctrine
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the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere
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