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46 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam Conference
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Marked the first time Truman met with Churchill and Stalin since Roosevelt's death
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Zaibatsu
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Huge corporations run by single families that had monopolized the Jpanaese economy
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Nuremburg Trials
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German war crimes trials
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Adolf Eichmann
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An architect of the Jewish extermination program
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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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A postwar international organizations
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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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Former first lady, served as one of the first Us 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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US diplomat, won the Nobel Peace Prize, first American to receive the award
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Cold War
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The competition for global power and influence between these two 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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A 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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Would impose penalties on countries that did not follow international rules
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Atomic Energy Act
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Created the civilian controlled Atomic Energy Commission to oversee nucluer weapons research and to promote peacetime uses of atomic energy
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Truman Doctrine
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Truman's statement to Congress
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George C. Marshall
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General or something
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Marshall plan
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European recovery program
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Berlin Airlift
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US and British planes carried more than 2 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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Soviet Union and countries of Eastern Europe
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Chang Kai-shek
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Led the Kuomintang
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Mao Zedng
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Communist party leader made reforms that gave land to peasants
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Kim Il Sung
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Communist North Korea became known as the democratic people's republic of Korea
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Sung man Rhee
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South Korea, Republic of Korea
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Douglas MacArthur
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US army's Far East commander
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Dwighit D Eisenhower
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World War II hero candidate
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Brinkmanship
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The ability to get to the verge without getting into war is the necessary art
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Central Intelligiance
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CIA
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Nikita Khruschev
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Stunned political observers by publicly accusing his processor
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U2 incident
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Caused a brief thaw in the Cold War to come to an abrut end
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National Security Council
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T advise the president on strategic matters
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House Un-American Activites Committee
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Investigate fascist groups in the Us
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Hollywood Ten
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A group of California film directors and writers
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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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Two Americans providing the Soviet Union with atomic energy secrets during WWII
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Internal Security Act
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Required communist party members and organizations no register with the federal government
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Joseph McCarthy
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A US senator from Wisconsin
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Margaret Chase Smith
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A Republican senator from Maine
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Hydrogen bomb
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Claimed 1000 times more powerful than atomic
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Billy Graham
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Evangelist who attracted large audiences in 1950s
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Sputnik
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The first artificial satellite
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NASA
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National Defense Education Act
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Approves millions of dollars to improve education in science, math, and foreign languages
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