Chapter 28

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Potsdam Conference

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It marked the first time president Truman had met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin since president Roosevelt's death

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zaibatsu

Back 2

huge corporations run by single families that had monopolized the Japanese economy

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Nuremberg Trials

Back 3

German war crimes trials

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Hideki Tojo

Back 4

japans prime minister during the war

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The United Nations

Back 5

a postwar international organization

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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former first lady that served as one of the first u.s. delegates to the u.n.

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Zionism

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the movement seeking a jewish homeland in palestine

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david ben-gurion

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a zionist leader who had supported the idea since the early 1900's

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ralph bunche

Back 9

a u.s. diplomat who persuaded both sides to accept an armistice

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Cold War

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War between U.S. and soviet union waged mostly on political and economic fronts.

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Satellite nations

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The countries under the soviet control.

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eorge Kennan

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A state department official and Soviet expert.

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Containment

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restricting the expansion of Soviet communism.

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Baruch Plan

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It would impose penalties on countries that did not follow international rules.

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Atomic Energy Act

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It created the civilian controlled atomic energy commission to over see nuclear weapons research and to promote peacetime uses of atomic energy.

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George C. Marshal

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sec of state who feared that economic problems would make western Europe more vulnerable to communists influence.

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Marshal Plan

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european recovery program that was $17 billion in economic aid for europe

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Truman Doctrine

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A speech to congress that did not mention the ussr but was cearly meant for them.

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Berlin Airlift

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U.S. and British plains carried more than 2 million tons of food and supplies to the people of West Berlin

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization that said each nation pledged to defend the others in the event of an outside attack.

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The Warsaw Pact

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an alliance with other communist countries in eastern Europe with the USSR

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Chiang Kai-shek

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he led the kuomintag or nationalist party against the Chinese communists.

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Mao Zedong

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The Chinese communist leader

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Kim Il Sung

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The democratic peoples reubic of koreas leader

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Syngman Rhee

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President of South Korea.

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`Douglas MacArthur

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A general who led the U.S. Army

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A popular general who was elected president in 52.

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brinkmanship

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a policy that rested on the threat of massive retaliation including the use of nuclear weapons.

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CIA

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It gathered strategic information and it pursued his Cold War goals.

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U-2 incident

Back 30

it caused the brief thaw in the cold war to come to an abrupt end.

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National Security Council

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it was to advise the president on strategic matters.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

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it had originally been established in 38 to investigate fascist groups in the US

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Hollywood Ten

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a group of california film directors and writers that went to jail rather than answer HUAC's questions

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Alger Hiss

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a communist spy

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Julius and Ethen Rosenberg

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There were convicted of providing the USSR with atomic-energy secrets

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Internal Security Act

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it was passed in 1950 as another anti communist measure. it required communist party members and organizations to register with the federal government and it imposed strict controls on immigrants suspected of being communist sympathizers.

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Joseph McCarthy

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he helped fuel the suspicions of communism

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Margaret Chase Smith

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A republican senator from Maine who challenged McCarthy

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H-Bomb

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hydrogen bomb that was claimed to be 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bombs.

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Billy Graham

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An Evangelist leader who attracted large audiences.

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Sputnik

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The first artificial satellite

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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NASA

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National Defense Education Act

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appropriated millions of dollars to improve education in science