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12 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam Conference
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Truman, Churchill and Stalin meet to work out an agreement over the details of their occupation of Germany
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zaibatsu
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huge corporations run by single families that had monopolized the Japanese economy
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Nuremberg Trials
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German war crimes trials were held here
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Hideki Tojo
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Japense premier during the war
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United Nations
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postwar international organization
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Trygve Lie
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first UN's secretary-general
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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one of the first U.S delegates to the UN
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Zionism
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movement seeking a Jewish homeland in Palestine
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David Ben-Gurion
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Zionist leader
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Ralph Bunche
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U.S diplomat, Un mediator, persuaded both sides to accept an armistice
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Cold War
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competition for global power and influence between the U.S and the Soviets
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Satellite Nations
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eastern europeen countries under Soviet control
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