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31 Cards in this Set
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The _______ was a WWII meeting in 1945 from Feb. 4 to Feb. 11, between FDR, Winston Churchill and Stalin to declare the allied intention to divide Germany.
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Yalta
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Winston Churchill in a 1946 speech warned that Stalin would create a(n) ____________ to divide Europe, preventing western influence.
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Iron Curtain
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Stalin tried to surround the Soviet Union with other communist states known as the ________ to try to protect the communist interests in the Soviet Union.
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Soviet Bloc
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A fund created at Breton Woods, NH in 1944 set up an international bank for reconstruction and development to stabilize currency and promote growth, was known as ________.
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International Monetary Fund
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The ________, held in 1945, were war crime trials for Nazi officials. Held in the symbolically significant town of Nuremburg, where Hitler had his anti-Semitic laws written in 1945.
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Nuremburg Trials
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The _______ was a proclamation by the President on March 12, 1947. It stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. It called upon the U.S. to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
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Truman Doctrine
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George Kennan founded the U.S. foreign policy of "________" to stop the spread of Soviet-based communism to Democratic countries around the world.
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Containment
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The ______ was created in 1947 to gather information and conduct secret operations to protect national security.
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National Security Council
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_______ was issued on April 14, 1950 and was largely based on the writings of U.S. ambassador to Russia, George F. Kennan, who advocated a policy of containment.
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NSC 68
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Organized in 1942, "_________" was created to issue radio broadcsts about the war and America's role.
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Radio Free Europe
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Established by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the ______ was a civilian agency of the U.S. government, it administered and regulated the production and use of atomic power.
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Atomic Energy Commission
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After WWII, Germany was divided into French, British, and Soviet "spheres". In 1948, Stalin closed all land routes to West Berlin in hopes of forcing the allies to leave. Rather than begin a war, Truman simply flew supplies over the blockade, this is known as the ______.
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Berlin Airlift
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The ________ was created in 1949 to enhance the stability of its member nations through a system of collective security. Alliance members agreed to defend one another from attack by other nations.
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United Nations (UN)
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The ______ was an organization in which Australia, New Zealand and U.S. could communicate and cooperate in the fight against communism.
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ANZUS
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_____ led the Communist overthrow of the Nationalist government in 1949.
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Mao Ze Dong
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The _______ was a 1950-1953 war in Eastern Asia, North Koreans invaded South Korea and captured its capital, other nations came to help, including the U.S., after the fighting stopped, it was still divided at the 38th parallel.
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Korean War
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________ was the commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific during WWII, he lost the Philippines against the Japanese, then recaptured them.
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McArthur
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The first African American in major league baseball, ________ became a hero for young blacks.
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Jackie Robinson
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Triggered by the fear of foreign sabotage, the "______" of the early 1950s launched federal and local raids on American radicals and arrested thousands of communists.
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The Red Scare
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The House of Represtentatives created the _________ in 1938 to investigate disloyalty and subversive organization throughout the 1950s as a result of McCarthyism. This resulted in severely anti-communist witch-hunts.
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House of Unamerican Activities Committee
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Truman's _________ program was used to get the communists out of the U.S.
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Loyalty
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Truman's ________, introduced during the election of 1948, was based on a 21 point program he had outlined in 1945. It included protection from unfair employment, a higher minimum wage, greater unemployment compensation and housing assistance, national health insurance and atomic energy legislation.
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Fair Deal
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The ______ was a 1944 bill that provided for college or vocational education for returning WWII veterans.
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GI Bill
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Millions of Americans came home from war and took advantage of the economic prosperity to form families resulting in the _______. Twenty five million babies were born between 1946 and 1952.
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Baby Boom
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The _____ are districts on the edges of towns or cities that grew rapidly during the 1950s.
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Suburbs
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________ were a normal looking couple that sold atomic secrets to the Soviets and so they were tried and executed in 1954.
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The Rosenburgs
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_______ was a senator from Wisconsin who claimed he possessed the names of state department officials who were communists and wanted Truman impeached for being soft on communists.
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Joseph McCarthy
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_______ is a term used to describe the anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s and 50s and is named after the senator who claimed to have a list of communists who had infiltrated the state department.
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McCarthyism
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The ______ hearings on March 11, 1954 took place after McCarthy made allegations of communist operators with the U.S. army. The public was finally able to view McCarthy's abrasive handling of witnesses and strong-arm tactics.
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McCarthy and Army
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The U.S.S.R. formed the _______ in 1955 in reaction to the formation of NATO.
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Warsaw Pact
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______ was a central Treaty Organization for the Middle East including Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and the U.K. who joined in 1955. The U.S. could not join for "procedural reasons" until 1958. It was designed to fight communist influence in the Middle East.
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CENTO
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