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23 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam conference
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Marks the first time president truman had met with winston Churchill and Joseph stalin
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Zaibatsu
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Huge corporations run by single families that had monopolized the japan's economy
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Nuremberg trials
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German war crimes trials
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Hideki tōjō
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Japans premier during the war
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United nations
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International Organization that worked out a proposal for a postwar
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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 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
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Zionist leader
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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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The competition for global power and influence between these two super powers
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Satellite nations
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Countries under Solviet control
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George Kennan
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A state department official and Solviet 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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Imposed penalties on countries that did not follow international rules
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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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10 months U.S. and British planes carried more than 2 million tons of food and supplies to the people of Western Berlin
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Warsaw pact
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The Solvate Union responded in 1955 by forming its own military alliance.
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Also known as jiang jieshi
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Kim II Sung
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Democratic peoples republic of Korea
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Syngman Rhee
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Called itself the Republic of Korea
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