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44 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam conference
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First time Truman met with Stalin and Churchill
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Zaibatsu
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Huge corporations run by single families that monopolized Japan
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Nuremberg trials
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German war crimes trials
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Hideki tōjō
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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's first secretary-general
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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First US delegates in 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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Zionist leader
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Ralph Bunche
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US diplomat in the UN
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Cold War
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US and Soviet Union
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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 expansion of soviet communism
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Baruch plan
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Authority to inspect any countries atomic energy plants
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Atomic energy act
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August 1946
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Truman doctrine
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Supported people from other countries
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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, April 1948
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Berlin airlift
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Response to the soviet move
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NATO
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North Atlantic treaty organization
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Warsaw Pact
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Soviets and other communists countries
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Chinese nationalist leader
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese communist leader
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Kim II sung
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Communist North Korea
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Syngman Rhee
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South Korean president
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Douglas macArthur
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US army's Far East commander
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Republican candidate 1952
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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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Central intelligence agency
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet leader after Stalin
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NSC
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National security council
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HUAC
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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Hollywood Ten
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Group of film directors who went to jail rather than answer ???
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Alger Hiss
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Accused of being a communist spy
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Accused of giving the soviets atomic-energy info
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Internal Security Act
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1950
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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 from Maine, challenged McCarthy
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Hydrogen bomb
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H-bomb, 1,000 times more powerful than atomic. Completely vaporized pacific island.
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Billy Graham
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Evangelist against nuclear weapons
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Sputnik
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First artificial satellite
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NASA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Defense Education Act
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1958
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