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28 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam Conference
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this marked the first time President Truman had met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin since President Roosevlet's death
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Nuremberg Trials
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War crimes trials of high-ranking Nazi officials held by an international military tribunal in Nuremberg
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Adolf Eichmann
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a architect of the Jewish extermination program, avoided immediate prosecution by hiding their identites and escaping to Latin America
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Hideki Tojo
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Japan's premier during the war
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United Nations
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International organization chartered in 1945
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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she served as one of the first US delegates in the UN
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Zionism
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the movement seeking a Jewish homeland in Palestine
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Ralph Bunche
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US diplomat that persuaded both sides to accept an armistic.
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David Ben-Gurion
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Zionist leader who supported the idea since the early 1900's
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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 controlled by the Soviet Union
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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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restriction the expansion of Soviet communism
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Baruch Plan
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Bernard Baruch's proposal to create an international agency that would impose penalties on countries that violated international controls on nuclear weapons
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Truman Doctrine
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Presiden Harry S Truman's policy stating that the US would jelp any country fighting against communism
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George C. Marshall
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During WWI she served under General John J. Pershing and helped develop military strategy.
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Marshall Plan
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European Recovery Program; US program of giving money to European countries to help them rebuild their economies after WWII
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Berlin Airlift
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Operation in which British and US planes carried food and supplies to West Berlin, which was cut off by a Soviet blockade.
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NATO
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North Atlantic Traty Organization; alliance formed in 1949 by the US, Western European nations, and other countries to help defend each other in case of attack
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Warsaw Pact.
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Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and other Eastern European communist countries.
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Chiang Kai-shek
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led the Kuomintang or National Party
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Mao Zedong
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Communiste Party leader who made reforms that gave land to peasants
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Kim II Sung
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became know as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Douglas MacAurthur
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He was the US Army
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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WWII hero they chose as there president
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brinkmanship
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Policy in the 1950s that called for threatening all out war in order to confront Communist aggression
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Central Intelligence Agency
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Federal agency created in the late 1940s to conduct covert operations
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet leader stunned political observers by publicly accusing his predecessor
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