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46 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam conference
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Marked as the first time president Truman had met with Churchill
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Zaibatsu
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Huge corporations run by single families
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Nuremberg trials
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German war crimes
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Adolf eichmann
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An architect
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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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Un first Secretary General
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Eleanor rosevelt
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Served as one of the first us delegates
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Zionism
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Movement seeking Jewish homeland
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David Ben gurion
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Supported the idea
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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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Global power between the two superiors
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Satellite nations
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Soviet control
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George Kennan
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State department official
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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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Would impose penalties on countries that did not follow international rules
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Atomic energy act
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Fears of nuclear warfare
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George c Marshall
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Secretary od state
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Truman doctrine
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Made no menTion
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Marshall plan
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April 1948
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Berlin airlift
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Western leaders responded
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NATO
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North Atlantic treaty organization
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Warsaw Pact
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Alliance
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Chiangmai Kai shek
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Communist
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Mao Zedong
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Communist party leader
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Kim II sung
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Was democratic people's Republic of Korea
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Song an Rhee
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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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World War II hero general
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Brinkmanship
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Rested on threat of massive retaliation
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Central Intelligence Agency
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To gather information
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Political observer
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U 2 incident
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Caused brief thaw in Cold War
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National security council
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Incise the presedent of strategic matters
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House un American activities committee
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Established to investigate fascist groups
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Hollywood ten
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Went to jail 851
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Alger hiss
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Being a comunist spy
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Julios and Esther rosenberg
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Us Court convicted to americans
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Internal security act
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Anticommunist measures
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Joseph McCarthy
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Us senator
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Margaret chase smith
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A republican senator
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Hydrogen bomb
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Us scientists worked on these
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Billy graham
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Attracted large audiance
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Sputnik
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The first artificial sat alight
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National aeronautics and space administration
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Us space technology
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National defense education act
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1957 congress approved
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