Chapter 28

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Postdam Conference

Back 1

marked the first time President Truman had met with Winston Churchill

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zaibatsu

Back 2

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

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Nuremberg Trails

Back 3

because they took place in Nuremberg Germany, the former rallying place of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party

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Adolf Eichmann

Back 4

an architect of the Jewish extermination program

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Hideki Tojo

Back 5

Japan's premier during the war

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Trygve Lie

Back 6

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

Back 9

had supported the idea since the early 1900s

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Ralph Bunche

Back 10

persuaded both sides to accept an armistice

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Cold War

Back 11

the competition for global power and influence between these two super economic fronts

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satellite nations

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countries over soviet union control

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George Kennan

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a State Department official and Soviet Expert, advised similiar action

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containment

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or restricting the expansion of Soviet communism

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Baruch Plan

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would impose penalties on countries that did follow international rules

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Atomic Energy Act

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to oversee nuclear weapons research and to promote peacetime uses of atomic energy

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George C. Marshall

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secretary of state

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Marshall Plan

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European recovery plan

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Truman Doctrine

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Truman's statement became known as this

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Berlin Airlift

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U.S and British planes carried more then 2 million tons of food

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NATO

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each nation pledged to defend the oters in the envent of an outside attack

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Warsaw Pact

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military alliance with other communist countries in Eastern Europe

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Chiang Kai-shek

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led the Nationalist Party

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Mao Zedong

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made reform that gave land to peasants

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Kim II Sung

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became known as the democratic people's republic of Korea

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Syngman Rhee

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called itself the republic of Korea

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Douglass MacArthur

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who was the Army's far eat commander

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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as their 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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Central Intelligence Agency

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to gather strategic information and pursue his Cold War goals

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Nikita Khrushchev

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stunned political observers by publicly accusing many ruthless crimes

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NSC

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to advise the president on strategic matters

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HUAC

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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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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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Alger hiss

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communist spy

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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg

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providing soviet union with atomic energy secrets during WWII

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International Security Act

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1950 communist party members and organiations to register with the federal government

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MacCarthy

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a U.S senator from Wisconsin helped fuel these suspicions

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Margaret Chase Smith

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a Republican senator from Maine

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hydrogen bomb

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1,000 times more powerful then one dropped on Japan

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Billy Graham

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attracted large audiences during the 1950s

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Sputnik

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the first artificial satellite

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NASA

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space technology

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National Defense Education Act

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appropriated millions of dollars to improve the education in science, mathematics, and foreign languages