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43 Cards in this Set
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Potsdam Conference
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marked the first time President Truman had met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin since Roosevelt's death
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Zaibatsu
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huge corporations run by single families that had monopolized the Japanese economy
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Nuremberg Trials
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German war crime trials
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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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the UN's first secretary-general
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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first U.S. delegates to the UN - former first lady
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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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persuaded both sides to accept an armistice
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Cold War
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competition for global power and influence between these two superpowers came to be known
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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 the expansion of Soviet Communism
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Baruch Plan
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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
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Truman Doctrine
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$400 million plan to aid Greece and Turkey
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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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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's own military alliance
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Chiang Kai-shek
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leader of the Nationalist Party
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Mao Zedong
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Communist Party Leader
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Kim I1 Sung
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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Syngman Rhee
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the Republic of Korea
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Douglas MacArthur
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the US Army's Far East commander
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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World War II hero and general
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Central Intelligence Agency
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used to gather strategic information and pursue his Cold War goals
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Nikita Khrushchev
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stunned political observers by publicly accusing his predecessor, Joseph Stalin
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National Security Council
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advises the president on strategic matters
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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originally been established in 1938 to investigate fascist groups in the US
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U-2 Incident
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caused the brief thaw in the Cold War to come to an abrupt end
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Hollywood Ten
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went to jail rather than answer HUAC's questions
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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accused of providing the Soviet Union with atomic-energy
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Internal Security Act
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required communist party members and organizations to register with the federal government
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Joseph McCarthy
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US senator form Wisconsin
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Margaret Chase Smith
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Republic senator from Maine
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Hydrogen Bomb
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H-bomb
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Billy Graham
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attracted large audiences during the 1950s
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Sputnik
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first artificial satellite
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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space technology program for the US
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National Defense Education Act
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appropriated millions of dollars to improve education in science, math, and foreign languages
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