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36 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam Conference
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Marked the first time President Truman had met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin since President Roosevelts death
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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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Nuremburg Trials
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Took place in Nuremberg, Germany, the former rallying place of Adolf Hitlers Nazi Party.
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Adolf Eichmann
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Architect of the Jewish extermination program, avoided immediate prosecution by hiding their identities and escaping
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Hideki Tojo
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Japans premier during the war
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United Nations
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Worked out a proposal for a postwar international organization called this
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Trygve Lie
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of Norway served as the UN's first secretary-general.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Served as one of the first U.S. delegates to the UN
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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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Had supported the idea since the early 1900s
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Ralph Bunche
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Persuaded both sides to accept an armistice
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Cold war
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The competition for global power and influence between these two super powers
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Satellite Nations
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Countries under Soviet control
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George Kennan
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A State Department official and soviet expert, advised similar action
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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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Would impose penalties on countries that did not follow international rules
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Atomic Energy Act
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This act created the civilian controlled Atomic Energy Commision to oversee nuvlear weapons
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Truman Doctrine
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One of Trumans statements became known as this
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George C. Marshall
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Shared a belief
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Marshall Plan
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Congress funded the European Recovery Program also known as this
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Berlin Airlift
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Over the next 10 months, U.S. and British planes carried more than 2 million tons of food and supplies to people of Berlin
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NATO
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U.S, Canada, and Iceland in a military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Warsaw Pact
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The Soviet Union responded in 1955 by forming its own military alliance that became known as this
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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Led the Kuomintang, or nationalist party
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Mao Zedong
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Made reforms the gave land to the peasants
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Kim II Sung
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Became known as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
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Syngman Rhee
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Called itself the Republic of Korea
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Douglas MacArthur
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Who was the U.S. Army's Far East commander
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Presidential candidate
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Brinkmanship
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Rested on the threat of massive retaliation, including the use of nuclear weapons
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Nikita Khrushecv
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Stunned political observers by publicly accusing his professor
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U-2 Incident
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Caused the brief thaw in the Cold War to come to an abrupt end
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National Security Act
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To advise the president on strategic matters
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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Which had originally been established in 1938 to investigate fascist groups in the U.S.
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Hollywood Ten
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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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