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25 Cards in this Set
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Significance of the UN when it was founded in 1945 |
Symbol of hope and tried to keep the peace |
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Why did Roosevelt have Stalin promise to let Eastern Europe vote freely? |
Supposed to allow free open-Democratic elections |
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What was agreed at the Yalta Conference? |
The Soviets, British, Americans, and French would take reparations from their own occupation zones within Germany |
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Who said "Time to stop babysitting the Soviets"? |
Truman |
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What would the Cold War dominate? |
Global affairs and the U.S. foreign policy |
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Who were involved in the Cold War? |
The U.S. and Soviet Union |
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How much money in aid was provided to the 16 countries? |
$13 billion |
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How many supplies did 227,000 flights bring in? |
2.3 million |
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How many members were originally in NATO? |
12 members |
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Who is Chiang Kai-Shek? |
Leader of the nationalists in China |
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How did Americans react to Communism in China? |
Stunned, tried to keep peace while supporting nationalists |
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What two nations were formed in Korea and what did they support? |
South Korea (democratic) North Korea (communism) |
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Why did the Soviets believe that they could take South Korea? |
Only 500 troops in South Korea and Soviets would gain both Koreas for North Korea |
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What did the remaining North Korean troops flee across? |
The 38th parallel |
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Who is the General that led the fight in Korea? |
Douglas MacArthur |
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How many people were unemployed after the investigation? |
3,112 people |
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What was the Hollywood Blacklist? |
A list that people with communist ties were placed on that ruined their careers |
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Who was Hiss? |
A spy for the Soviet Union spying on the U.S. |
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Who were the Rosenbergs? |
Minor activists in the American Communist party (executed for espionage) |
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What was McCarthy the most famous for? |
Being an anti-communist activists |
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How did McCarthy die? |
Suffured from alcoholism |
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Who originally coined the phrase "brinkmanship"? |
United States Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles during the Cold War |
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Where did the term "brinkmanship" come from? |
The political Hungarian theory of pushing the military to the brink of war in order to convince another nation to follow your demands |
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What was the name of the first artificial satellite? |
Sputnik |
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What was the plane used for the mission? |
The U-2 |
