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Konrad Adenauer
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a German who had administrative experience but had not been tainted by association with the Nazis for positions of leadership; founding father of West German; leader of the Christian Democratic Union
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Clement Atlee
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represented Britain’s Labour Party at Potsdam
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Aduard Benes
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president of Czechoslovakia , the only democratic government that coexisted with the S.U.
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Winston Churchill
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represented Britain at Potsdam; “iron curtain” speech; defeated by Atlee in elections; Prime minister until 1955 again; involved in Congress of Europe which was the first path to political and economic unification of Europe
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Ho Chi Minh
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affiliated with the Comintern; created the Viet Minh, a broadly based nationalist movement heavily influenced by Vietnamese communists;
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Mohandas Gandhi
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tried to keep India intact before Pakistan was carved out of it
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George F. Kennan
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wrote the “Long Telegram” from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow; idea of containment came from this
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Kim Il Sung
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North Korean communist and nationalist who tried to reunited the peninsula;
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Douglas MacArthur
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U.S. commander of the occupation administration in Japan; tried to reestablish a tradition of parliamentary democracy
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George C. Marshall
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Secretary of State under Truman who helped with economic and social recovery of Europe
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese Communist Party under him shaped Cold War in 2 ways: formed People’s Republic of China; his ideas and revolutionary romanticism associated with his past acocmplishemtnes heightened a fear that ever national liberation movement would end up as a communist victory
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Jan Masaryk
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Czech foreign minister and son of founder of the Republic who died in a mysterious fall from his office window in 1948 iun the process of replacing a democratic coalition government with a communist one
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Achmad Sukharno
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destroyed power vacuum in the Dutch East Indieas until Indonesian nationalists declared independence in 1945
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Harry Truman
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President of U.S. at Potsdam Conference in 1945; Truman doctrine said that the U.S. woudl ehlp any government threatened by invasion from without or subversion from within
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Israeli War of 1948-49
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Israeli War of 1948-49– The Arabs attempted to destroy Israel when the British left; Israel defeated them; terrorism and war began to take place for 50 years
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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French attempted to defeat the Viet Minh deciseively here; Americans refused to intervene; caused division of Vietnam
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Bizonia
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1947, the British and American German zones fused into a single economic anbd administrative unit; eventually formed West Germany
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Berlin blockade
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June 23 1948 to May 12 1949; a visible sign of increasing Cold War tension
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Berlin airlift
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the counter-tactic to the Berlin blockade
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Brussels Treaty
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produced NATO; signed by Britain France, Belgium Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Europeans agrreed to the formation of an informal American empire in the interests of collective security
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colons
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Europeans who lived in Algeria controlling it economy and government;
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Cominform
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successor to the Cominterm; established with headquarters in Yugo; evidence of a communist movement; main taks was to tighten Soviet control of eastern Europe
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containment
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came from “The Long Telegram; idea that the S.U. respected strength and would back down if U.S. met every move with a countermove;
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Czech coup (1948)
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Feb 1948; symbolized the phenomenon of tightening Soviet control in eastern Europe
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Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
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the West zone; zone officially set in 1949
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Geneva Conference (1954)
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the Russians and the Chinese pressed the Viet Minh to accept a division of Vietnam into a non-communist and communist government; elections would be held in 1956 to unite Vietnam supposedly
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German Democratic Republic (GDR)
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the east communist zone in 1949
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“Iron Curtain”
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Churchill’s speech in 1946 marked the beginning; 1990, it was over
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Korean War
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one of the Asian developments that contr. to Cold War; Kim Il Sung tried to unite the peninsula
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“Long Telegram”
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George F. Kennan sent an 8000 word telegram detailing his sense of how Russians viewed their history and the present moment; came up with idea of containment
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Lublin Poles
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the new Polish communist government, installed in 1945 by the Soviets
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Manhattan Project
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American efforts to build a bomb; Stalin knew a good deal about it through reports sent to S.U. by spies;
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Marshall Plan
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the economic counterpart to the Truman Doctrine; Marshall used the Harvard commencement in 1947 as a launching plan; S.U. saw it as an American maneuver in the Cold War
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949 out of the brussels Treaty;
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Peoples Republic of China
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formed by Mao Zedong; major deve. in world communist movement;
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Potsdam Conference
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meeting between Allied leaders in summer of 1945 at Potsdam, a suberb of Berlin; Truman from U.S., Stalin for Soviet Union, Churchill anbd Atlee from Britain; questions arose about composition of Polish government and administration of occupied Germany;
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Suez Canal Crisis
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joint attack between British, France, and Israel in 1946 in Arab war failed;
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“Third World”
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emergence of dozens of new nations in 50's and 60's began to change the nature of international relations;
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Truman Doctrine
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Truman’s policy to help any government threatened by invasion from without or subversion from within in 1947
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United Nations
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Main forum for discussion of international strife post- WWII;
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Viet Minh
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formed by Ho Chi Minh, a broadly based nationalist movement heavly inflouenced by the Vietnamese communists
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