Chapter 28

Front 1

Potsdam Conference

Back 1

First time Truman met wtih Churchill

Front 2

Zaibatsu

Back 2

Huge corporation ran by single families that had mobolized the Japaanese economy

Front 3

Nuremberg Trials

Back 3

Germany war crimes trial

Front 4

Adolf Eichmann

Back 4

Architect of Jewish extermination

Front 5

Hideki Tojo

Back 5

Japans premier during the war and was sentenced to death.

Front 6

United Nations

Back 6

International organization

Front 7

Trygve Lie

Back 7

UN's first Secretary General.

Front 8

Eleanor Roosevelt

Back 8

One of the first delegates to the UN

Front 9

Zionism

Back 9

Movement seeking a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Front 10

David Ben-Gurion

Back 10

Supported the idea of Zionism, leader of Zionist.

Front 11

Ralph Bunche

Back 11

US diplomat

Front 12

Cold War

Back 12

The competition for global power and influence between these two superpowers.

Front 13

Satellite Nations

Back 13

countires under the Soviet controll

Front 14

George Kennan

Back 14

State Department official and control Soviet power

Front 15

Containment

Back 15

Restricting the expansion of Soviet communism.

Front 16

Baruch Plan

Back 16

Impose penalties on countries that did not follow international rules.

Front 17

Atomic Energy Act

Back 17

Created civilian controlled Atomic Energy Commission to oversee nuclear weapons researc and to promote peacetime uses of atomic energy.

Front 18

Truman Doctrine

Back 18

Statement about the Mediterranean

Front 19

George C. Marshall

Back 19

Secretary of State

Front 20

Marshall Plan

Back 20

European Recovery Program

Front 21

Berlin Airlift

Back 21

Response to the Soviet movement of blockades.

Front 22

NATO

Back 22

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Front 23

Warsaw Pact

Back 23

Alliance between Soviet Union and other communist countries.

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Chiang Kai-shek

Back 24

Led the Kuomintang Party

Front 25

Mao Zedong

Back 25

Communist party leader

Front 26

Kim Il Sung

Back 26

Communist North Korea leader

Front 27

Syngman Rhee

Back 27

President of South Korea

Front 28

Douglas MacArthur

Back 28

Led the US

Front 29

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Back 29

Presidential candidate of 1952

Front 30

Brinkmanship

Back 30

Policy that rested on the threat of massive retaliation, including the use of nuclear weapons.

Front 31

CIA

Back 31

Central Intelligence Agency

Front 32

Nikita Khrushchev

Back 32

Soviet leader

Front 33

U-2 incident

Back 33

Caused the thaw in the Cold War to come to an end

Front 34

NSC

Back 34

National Security Council

Front 35

House Un-American Activities Committee

Back 35

HUAC investigated fascist groups in the US

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Hollywood Ten

Back 36

Group of California film directors and writers

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Alger Hiss

Back 37

Accused of being a communist spy

Front 38

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Back 38

Convicted of providing the Soviets with atomic energy secrets.

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Internal Security Act

Back 39

Required Communist Party members and organizations to register with the federal government.

Front 40

Joseph McCarthy

Back 40

Us Senator from Wisconsin

Front 41

Margaret Chase Smith

Back 41

Republican Senator from Maine

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Hydrogen Bomb

Back 42

H-bomb, claimed 1,000 times more powerful than atomic bombs.

Front 43

Billy Graham

Back 43

Evangelist preacher.

Front 44

Sputnik

Back 44

Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Back 45

NASA

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National Defense Education Act

Back 46

Appropriated millions of dollars to improve education in science, mathematics, and foreign languages.