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41 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam Conference
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Marks the first time president Truman met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin since FDR's death
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Nuremberg Trials
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German war crimes trials held at Nuremberg
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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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Postwar international organization
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Trygve Lie
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First secretary-general of the UN
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Served as one of the first U.S. delegates of the UN
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Zionism
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The movement seeking a Jewish homeland
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David Ben-Gueion
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Zionist leader
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Zaibatsu
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Huge corporations run by single families that monopolized the Japanese economy before WWII
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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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War between 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 soviet specialist
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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 rule
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Atomic Energy Act
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Created civilian controlled AEC
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Truman Dodtrine
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Truman's speech to Congress
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George C. Marshall
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Secretary of State
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Marshall Plan
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Congress funded the European Recovery Program
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Berlin Airlift
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U.S. planes carried more than two million tons of food and supplies to the people of West Berlin
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NATO
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North Atlantic treaty organization
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Warsaw Pact
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Alliance between the Soviet Union and other communist countries
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Chiang Kai-sheik
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Led the nationalist party
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Mao Zedong
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Led the communist in the civil war between China, he won
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Kim II Sung
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Led North Korea
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Syngman Rhee
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President of South Korea
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Douglas MacArthur
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Was the US army's Far East commander
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Republicans used him as their presidential candidate
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Brinkmanship
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The ability to get on the brink of war but without getting into war
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CIA
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Gathers strategic information
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Publicly accused Stalin of committing many ruthless crimes
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U-2 Incident
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caused a brief thaw in the war to come to an abrupt end
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National Security Council
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Advise the president on strategic matters
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House un-American Activities Committee
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Questioned the political ties of members of peace organizations
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Hollywood Ten
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A group of Californian film directors and writers went to jail
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Alger Hiss
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Accused of being a communist spy
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
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Convicted them of providing the S.U. With to mic energy secrets during WWII
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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 McCarthy
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Us senator from Wisconsin
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Margaret Chase Smith
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Republican senator from Maine
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Billy Graham
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Evangelist attracted large audiences during the 1950's
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