U.s. History Ch. 17

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Postdam Conference

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(1945) overseas meeting attended by the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union that laid the foundation for Germany's postwar status

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Zaibatsu

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huge corporation run by single families that had monopolized the Japanese economy prior to WW2

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Nuremberg trials

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trials of Nazi war criminals by the Allies that began in 1945.

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United Nations

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(U.N.) International organization formed in 1945 to work for world peace

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GI Bill of Rights

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(1944) servicemen's readjustment Act, which provided pensions and government loans to help veterans start their own businesses, buy homes or farms, and attend college

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Employment Act

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(1946) Post-WW2 law that established the Employment Act of 1946 to counsel the president on economic policy

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Taft-Hartley Act

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(1947) Federal law that extended government regulation of labor unions and included a provision allowing courts to end strikes

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Committee on Civil Rights

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(CPI) agency established in 1917 that waged a vigorous propaganda campaign to convince Americans to support the war effort

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Dixiecrats

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State's Rights party formed by Southern Democrats in 1948; supported continued racial segregation

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Fair Deal

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President Truman's proposed reforms after the 1948 election; for example, a national health insurance program

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Cold War

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competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for global power and influence

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Satellite Nations

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countries under the control of the Soviet Union

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Containment

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Cold War strategy proposed by George Kennan to stop the spread of communism

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Baruch Plan

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(1946) Proposal submitted to the UN Atomic Energy Commission for international control of atomic energy

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Atomic Energy Act

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(1946) Federal law that placed the Atomic Energy Commission under civilian control to oversee nuclear weapons research and to promote peacetime uses of atomic energy.

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Truman Doctrine

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U.S. policy of giving military and financial aid to those countries resisting communist rule

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Marshall Plan

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(1948) U.S. program that provided some $12 billion in economic aid to Western Europe after WW2; also called the European Recovery Act

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Berlin airlift

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(1948) Joint effort by U.S. and British air forces to deliver food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blocked all routes into the city

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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(NATO) Alliance formed in 1949 whose member nations agreed to protect one another in the event of attack

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Warsaw Pact

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(1955) Alliance formed by the Soviet Union and other communist countries in Eastern Europe

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National Security Council

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(NSC) Organization created in 1947 by Congress to advise the president on strategic matters.

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Central Intelligence Agency

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(CIA) Federal agency created to gather information overseas

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House Committee on Un-American Activities

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(HUAC) Congressional committee established in 1938 to investigate anti-American propaganda

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Hollywood Ten

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group of film directors and writers who went to jail rather than answer questions from the House committee on Un-American Activities

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Internal Security Act

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(1940) Federal law that required Communist party members and organizations to register with the federal government

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Zionism

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movement, originally intended to promote the founding of a Jewish national state, that called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine

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Long March

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Exodus of 1934-35 when Communist Chinese marched nearly 6,000 miles to northern China, helping cement Mao Zedong's leadership of the party

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38th parallel

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Border between North Korea and South Korea set by the Allies in 1945