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45 Cards in this Set
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Postdam Conference
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marked the first time president Truman had met with winston Churchill and joseph Stalin
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Zaibatsu
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huge corporation run by single families that had monopolized the Japanese economy
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Nuremberg Trials
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they tool place in Nuremburg Germany the former rallying place of Adolf hitler Nazi Party
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Adolf Eichmann
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architect of the jewish extermination program avoided immediate prosecution by hiding there identities
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Hideki Tojo
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japans premier during the war
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United nation
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a postwar international orginization
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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served as one of the first U.S. delegates to the united nation
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Trygvelie
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Norway served as the UNs first secratary general
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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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supported the idea since the early 1900s.
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Ralph Bunche
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pursuaded both sides to accept an armistice
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Cold War
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The competion for global power and influence between these two superpowers
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Satellite Nations
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contries under Soviet Control
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George Kennan
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state department official and soviet expert
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containment
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or restricting the expantion of soviet communissm
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Baruch Plan
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impose penalties on countries that did not follow international rules
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Atomic Energy Act
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created the civilians controlled Atomic Energy Commision
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Truman Doctrine
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no mention of the Soviet Unioin
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George C. Marshall
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Secratary of state
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Marshall plan
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Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953
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Berlin Airlift
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Western leaders responded to the soviet union
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NATO
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Western European nations joined the united states, and iceland in a military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Warsaw Pact
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alliance
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Chiang Kai- Shek
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led the Kuomintang or nationalists party against the chinese communists
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Mao Zedong
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made reforms that gave land to peasants
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Kim II Sung
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Known as the Democratic peoples republic of Korea
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Syngman Rhee
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itself the Republic of Korea
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Douglas MacArthur
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U.S. Armys far east commander
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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WWII hero and there presidential canidate
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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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Central Intelligence Agency
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gather strategic information and pursue his cold war goals
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Nikita Khrushchev
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stunned political observers by publicity accusing his predecessor
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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 Council
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advise the president on strategic powers
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House Un- American Activities Committee
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had officially been establised in 1938 to investigate facist groups in the United States
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Hollywood Ten
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group of California film directors and writers
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
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provided the soviet union with the secret atomic bomb during WWII
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Internal Security Act
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Passed in 1950
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Joseph McCarthy
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U.S. senator from wisconsin
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Margaret Chase Smith
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Republican senator from maine
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Hydrogen bomb
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1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb
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Billy Graham
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attracted large audiences during the 1950
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Sputnik
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first artificial satellite into orbit in October 1957
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NASA
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President Eisenhower urged congress to promote U.S. space technolagy
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National Defense Education Act
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millions of dollars to improve education in science, mathematics,and foreign languages
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