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45 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam conference
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Conference to decide how to handle postwar germany, allied leaders met in potsdam germany
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Zaibatsu
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Huge corporations run by single families that had monopolized the japanese company
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Nuremberg trials
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The german war crimes trials
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Adolf eichmann
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An architect of the jewish extermination program
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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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They worked out a proposal for a postwar international organization called the united nations
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Trygve lie
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Served as the un's first secretary general
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Eleanor roosevelt
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Served as one of the first us 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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Zionist leader
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Ralph bunche
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U.s. diplomat
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Cold war
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Competition for global power and influence between these two superpowers
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Satelite nations
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Countries 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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Restricting the expansion of soviet communism
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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 civilian controlled atomic energy commission to oversee nuclear weapons research and to promote peacetime uses of atomic energy
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Truman doctrine
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It must be the policy of the us to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjection by armed minorities or by outside pressures
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George marshall
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Secretary of state
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Marshall plan
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Congress founded the european recovery program
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Berlin airlift
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Western leaders responded to the soviet move with the
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NATO
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Military alliance (north atlantic treaty organization)
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Chaing kai shek
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Led the nationalist party against the Chinese communists
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Mao zedong
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Communist party leader
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Kim II sung
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Democratic ppls of republic of korea
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Sygman rhee
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Called itself the republic of korea
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Douglas macarthur
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Us armys far east commander
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Dwight d eisenhower
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WwII hero general
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Brinkmanship
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Rested on the threat of massive retaliation
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Cia
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Gather strategic information and pursue his cold war goals
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Nikita khrushchev
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Soviet leader
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U2 incident
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Caused the brief thaw in the cold war to come to an abrupt end
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Nsc
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To advise the president on stratejic matters
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HUAC
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Established 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
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Alger hiss
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Communist spy
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Julius and ethel rosenberg
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Convicted of providing the soviet union with atomic energy secrets
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Internal security act
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Required communist party members and organizations to register with the federal government
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Joseph mcarthy
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US senetor
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Margaret smith
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Republican senator from maine
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Hydrogen bomb
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H-bomb
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Billy graham
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Attracted large audiences
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Sputnik
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Artificial satelite
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Nasa
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Us space technology
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National defense education act
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Appropriated millions of dollars to improve education in science
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