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George F. Kennan
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wrote his views on foreign policy, stressed Stalin's need to maintain leadership and Soviet insecurity, thought that America should respond with aggression so that the Soviets would break down, introduced the approach of containment
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containment
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the approach to Soviet aggression by "unalterable counterforce" which would mellow or break up Soviet power, marked turning point in the Cold War introducing the idea of wielding U.S. power throughout the world
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McCarthyism
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anti-Communist crusade, man it is termed after was making the claim that Communism in the U.S. was more successful than Communism in Russia, constantly charged others with being Communists
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Helen Gahagan Douglas
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One of the few females in the House of Representatives, she responded to the horrors of the Holocaust and poor conditions of migrant farm workers by running for Congress, representing the poorer districts of Los Angeles.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Was designed to defend against a Soviet threat to Western Europe; members included the U.S., Canada, and countries in Western Europe. This agreement was also the first time that the U.S. agreed to go to war if an ally was attacked.
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Harry S. Truman
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FDR's vice president in the 1944 election who was chosen because he was from Missouri; became president after FDR's death from 1945-1952; responsible for the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Marshall Plan (European Recovery Plan)
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over the course of 5 years, the U.S. sent $13 billion in aid to sixteen European countries; this ended up being beneficial to America because the countries bought American goods
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Fair Deal
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Truman's agenda of initiatives in civil rights, housing, education, and healthcare
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Believed that professional soldiers should stay out of politics, but ran in the 1952 election. He won with Nixon as his running mate, and made a pledge to end the Korean war.
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Berlin Airlift
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U.S. and British pilots airlifted 2.3 million tons of goods to sustain the West Berliners for almost a year.
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NSC 68
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A top secret report on the United States' military strength completed in April 1950. It warned that the survival of the nation required a massive military buildup and a tripling of the defense budget.
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Richard M. Nixon
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37th president of the United States who strengthened friendly relations between the United States, China, and the Soviet Union. He also sought out better wages, working conditions, and desegregation of schools. But due to pressure from the Watergate scandal, he became the first president to resign from office.
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Truman Doctrine
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stated that the U.S would support Greece and Turkey with funds and a military so that they would not join the Soviet Union. Also believed to have started the Cold War.
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Third World
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Refers to areas outside of the western and soviet orbits that have yet to develop in industry.
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Mao Zedong
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was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
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Iron Curtain
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symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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