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25 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam conference
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Marked the first time president Truman had met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin since president Roosevelt's death.
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Zaibatsu
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Huge corporations run by single families that had monopolized the Japanese economy
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Adolf Eichmann
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Architect of the Jewish extermination program, avoided immediate prosecution by hiding their identities and escaping to Latin America
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Hideki Tōjō
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Japan's premier during the war
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Untied nations
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International organization
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Trygve lie
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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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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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Persuaded both sides to accept an armistice
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Cold War
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Competition for global power and influence between these to superpowers
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Satellite 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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Passed in response to fears of nuclear warfare
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Truman Doctrine
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Truman's statement became known has the Truman doctrine
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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 program
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Berlin airlift
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Western leaders responded to the soviet move with the Berlin airlift
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NATO
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In April 1949 nine Western European nations joined the North Atlantic treaty organization
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Warsaw Pact
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Alliance between the Soviet Union and other communist countries in Eastern Europe
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Chiang Kia-shek
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Led the Kuomimtang 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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Became known as the democratic people's Republic of Korea
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