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international monetary fund
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a fund created at breton woods, NH in 1944 set up and international bank for reconstruction and development to stabilize currency and promote growth, was know as..
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mao tse dung
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..led the communist overthrow of the nationalist government in 1949
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berlin airlift
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after ww11, 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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atomic energy commission
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established by the atomic energy act of 1946 the .. was a civilian agency of the gov., it administered and regulated production and use of atomic power
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nsc # 68
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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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containment
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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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truman doctrine
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the ... was a proclamation by pres. on march 12 1947 stated U.S would support greece and turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their failing 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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house of unamerican activities committee (HVAC)
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the house of reps 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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the red scare
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triggered by the fear of foreign sabotage, the "..." of the earl;y 1950s launched federal and local raids on american radicals and arrested thousands of communists
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korean war
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the ... was a 1950-53 war in eastern asia, north koreans invaded south korea and captured it's capital, other nations came to help, including the U.S, after the fighting stopped, it was still divided at the 39th parallel
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CENTO
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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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warsaw pact
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the U.S,S.R formed the ... in 1955 in reaction to the formation of NATO
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the fair deal
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truman's ...introduced during the election of 1948 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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yalta
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the .. was a ww11 meeting in 1945 from feb 4 to feb 22 between FDR, winston churchill and stalin to declare the allied intention to divide germany
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the soviet bloc
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stalin tried to surround the soviet union with other communist states known as teh ... to try to protect the communist interests in the soviet union
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iron curtain speech
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winston churchill in a 1946 speech warned that stalin would create an ...to divide europe preventing western influence
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joe mccarthy
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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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nuremberg trials
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the.. held in 1945 were war crimes trials for nazi officials. Held in symbolically significant town of nuremberg, where hitler had his antisemetic laws written in 1945
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army and mccarthy
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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-armed tactics
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G.I. bill
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the.. was a 1944 bill that provided for college or vocational education for returning ww11 veterans
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amzus
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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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united nations
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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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Mcarthur
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...was the commander of the allied forces in the pacific during ww11, he lost the Philippines against Japanese, then recaptured them
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radio free europe
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organized in 1942 "..." was created to issue radio broadcasts about war and americas role
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national security counsel
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the... was created in 1947 to gather info and conduct secret operations to protect national security
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loyalty
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trumans..program was used to get the communists out of the U.S
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the rosenbergs
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...were normal looking couple that sold atomic secrets to the soviets so they were tried and executed in 1954
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mccarthyism
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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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dynamic conservatism
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".." was a domestic spending philosophy that einsenhower preached during his presidency. He continued all the major programs of the new deal but tried to cut back on bureaucy and inefficiency
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interstate act
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...was part of Ikes defensive measures. The real intent was to facilitate troop movements from coast to coast in case of any invasion an invasion by the soviet union. The american public was told the intent was to improve commerce; it did that too.
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allan freed
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...was an american disc jockey know for promoting african american rhythm and blues in the US: credited with inventing the term "Rock and roll"
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earl warren
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chief justice from 1954 to 1969. Ike appointee. Considered one of the greatest justices in US history and leader of the most activist court.
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brown vs. board of ed
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...was a 1954 case that outlawed segregation in public schooling. It was the culmination of an NAACP effort to bring about desegregation that had taken several decades.
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brinksmanship
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john foster dulles believed that the US should take the world to the edge of destruction and manage it from there, preventing the outbreak of conventional warfare in a policy known as ...
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pre-empire strike
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...was a military attack designed to destroy the offensive nuclear capability of the enemy. Beginning in the 1950s people began to speculate that it might be necessary to hit the soviet union before they had the chance to "nuke" the US
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massive retaliation
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Ike made it clear that the US would consider a communist attack on a democratic nation a direct attack on US interests and would thus result in immediate and ...
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eisenhower
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the .. doctrine of (1957)- pledged to extend US containment activities to the middle east; largely a response to the new importance of oil
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taiwan crisis
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the... was a conflict in 1958 between the peoples republic of china and the republic of china in the taiwan strait. The US sent in protection for the islands
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farewell address
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eisenhower's "..." in 1961 advocated for a mutally supportive relationship between the armed forces and industrial corporations that supplied the weapons
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ho chi minh
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...was the leader of the vietnamese liberation army (vietcong) dedicated to af free, unified vietnam; attacked foreign forces in south vietnam until victory in 1975
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dien bien phu
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the french defeat at... in 1954, convinced them they could no longer control indochina; the US had to step in to keep communism out of vietnam
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hungarian uprising
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in the ...of 1956, the people of soviet hungary tried to break from soviet control and reform their government; the soviets brutally repressed this uprising; Ike couldn't risk war to go help
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national defense education act
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the... of 1958 poured money into american education, particularly into math and science programs, in order to help america catch and surpass the russians in the space race and arms race
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mutually assured destruction
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...was the theory, developed druing the early cold war, that nuclear war would result in the utter destruction of all combatants; and that this detterent would necessitate peaceful solutions to cold war incidents
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NASA
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..was created in 1958 to coordinate america's efforts in the space race
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Nikitia Khruschev
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..was the leader of the communist party after stalin's death, was responsible for de-stalinization of the USSR and the building of Berlin wall in 1961
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camp david
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..is president eisenhowers vacation home/retreat in the maryland hills
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batista
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was disposed as cuban leader during the cuban revolution of 1959
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castro
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in 1959 ..led the cuban communist party in an overthrow of the cuban government. THe US panicked to see a soviet ally in such close striking distance. Ike's staff began planning to overthrow this government
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U-2 incident
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occuring in 1960, the ... occured when the soviet union shot down a US U-2 spy plan that was spying on the soviet union
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