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23 Cards in this Set
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Each wished to spread their own ideologies without starting what?
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WWIII
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Harry Truman, the 33rd president and a democrat was from the state of
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Missouri
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The Marshall Plan was meant to revive the nations of what continent in an economic sense?
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Europe
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What famous general did President Harry Truman have to fire over their disagreements on how the war should be fought?
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MacArthur
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Jospeh McCarthy a democratic senator from Wisconsin elevated his power base by creating and sustaining a paranoia and fear of what ideology?
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Communism
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Who was elected president of the U.S. in 1952
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Dewight IKE
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What nations represented the "Big Three" at Potsdam Conference held in July of 1945?
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U.S. Great Britain, Soviet Union.
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What did the American government demand that Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union allow in Europe.
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Free (Democratic) elections
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Russia(Soviet Union) was hampered in its economic recovery after WWII because America withdrew all of its
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Economic aid and assistance
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Bernard Baruch, an economic and nuclear policy advisor to the U.S. government strongly advocated international control of
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Atomic (weapons) power
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Without nuclear or atomic weapons, the Soviet Union was forced to establish a larger
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Army/Military
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One major dilemma for the U.S. after WWII was how to stop the spread of
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Communism
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President Truman's Secretary of State George Marshall developed a plan to rebuild America's allies in Europe
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Marshall Plan
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The American governments position on communism, after WWII was to
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limit it to where it existed; stop it from spreading to Third world countries.
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Only two nations emerged from WWII as ginuwine victors; the (communist) soviet union and the (democratic) U.S.
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Each wished spread opposing ideologies withou causing WWII
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The hammer and the sicle
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The soviet symbol
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First cold war adversary for the soviet union
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Harry S. Truman
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Containment/Truman Doctrine
"contain communism and not start WWIII" |
Harry S. Truman
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U.S. foriegn policy would seek to contain communism in countries where it existed
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Containment/Truman Doctrine
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U.S. supported Greece and Turkey expelled communist insurgents
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Containment/Truman Doctrine
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On June 5, 1947, sec of state George Marshall prposed that the US spend huge sums to reconstruct Europe's national economies.
A fiscally sound Europe would be less likely to succumb to any communist advances. |
The Marshall Plan
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35th president. Democratic . From Massachussetts
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John F. Kennedy
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When was the first presidential debates televised
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1960
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