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  1. Teheran Conference
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a strategy meeting during WW2 between Stalin, FDR, and Churchill

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  1. Yalta Conference
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Russia Feb. 4-11, 1945 FDR,Churchill, Stalin, decisions regarding the future progress of WW2

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  1. United Nations
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An international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries. The organization works on economic and social development programs, improving human rights and reducing global conflicts.

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  1. Postdam Conference
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conference used to negotiated terms for the ending of World War Two

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  1. Chaing Kai-shek
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a chinese political and military leader lost control of China because of Mao Zedong

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  1. Mao Zedong
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Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People’s Republic of China

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  1. Truman Doctrine
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the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.

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  1. Marshall Plan
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a U.S. initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billionin economic support to help rebuil

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9.Selective Service System

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aka the Draft require Young Men between the ages of 18 and 25 to register

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  1. National Security Act
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1947, reorganized military leadership after World War Two occured.

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  1. Department of Defense
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America’s oldest and largest government agency. the Department of Defense has grown and evolved with our nation.

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  1. National Security Council
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the president’s principle forum for considering foreign policy

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  1. Central Intelligence Agency
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tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).

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  1. Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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the American and British attempt to fly supplies to West Berlin after Stalin put up a blockade to try and take over West Berlin

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  1. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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a treaty organized between the United States and its allies in Europe that stated if the U.S.S.R. attacked one of them all of the others would help the attacked country

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  1. Warsaw Pact
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Stalin’s counter treaty to The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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  1. National Security Council Report 68
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a fifty-eight paged report about America’s Cold War policies for the next oncoming decades

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  1. GI Bill of Rights
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a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War Two veterans

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  1. United Mine Workers
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United Mine Workers of America demanded higher wages, shorter workdays, and union recognition

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  1. Fair Deal
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reform proposals of the second Truman administration included civil rights legislation and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act

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  1. Taft-Hartley Act
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the first major revision to Wagner Act, allowed president to appoint a board of inquiries to investigate union disputes

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  1. Dixiecrats
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Deep South democrats who walked out of the 1948 democratic convention due to dispute on Civil Rights

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23.Korean War

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fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist North Korea began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.

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  1. House Un-American Activities Commitiee
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searched for communists and other people who were believed to be Un-American

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  1. Alger Hiss Trial
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accused by Whittaker Chambers, a former Soviet agent, of leaking secret government documents and was convicted of perjury in 1950.

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  1. McCarran Internal Security Act
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protect the united states of Un-American activities by requiring American Communist parties to register

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  1. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Couple convicted of transmitting atomic secrets to the Russians and executed on June 19, 1953. after Julius worked on the atomic bomb

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  1. McCarthyism
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campaign against alleged communists in the US government and carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy accused lost their jobs.

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  1. Adlai Stevenson
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received democratic party nomination in 1952, helped found the U.N.

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  1. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II

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