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in 1944 delegates from 39 countries met in Washington DC to create

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United Nations

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has the power to vote on resolutions and choose the non permanent members of security council

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General Assembly

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responsible for international peace and securiety

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Security Council

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where FDR Churchill and Stalin met to discuss the plan for post war world

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Yalta

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the declaration the echoed the Atlantic Charter saying all people can their form of govt

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Declaration of Liberated Europe

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era of confrontation and competition between nations

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Cold War

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FDR believed that this was key to world peace

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World Trade

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First US delegate to join the UN

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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First UN human rights treaty

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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

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promoted the inherent dignity of all humans and to end discrimination

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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would give European nations American aid to rebuild their economies

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Marshall Plan

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proposed the European Recovery Program, or Marshall Plan.

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George Marshall

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was to help countries resist being taken over by Communist forces.

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Truman Docterine

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The Communist Countries of Eastern Europe came to be called

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satellite nations

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separated Eastern Europe from Western Europe.

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Iron Curtian

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diplomat George Kennan responded to the soviets with what became known as the

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Long Telegram

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was a message, thousands of words long, explaining Kennan’s views on the Soviets

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Long Telegram

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soviet zone of Germany

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East Germany or German Democratic Republic

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bringing 2 million tons of supplies to berlin also symbolized American determination to contain communism

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Berlin Airlift

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was founded as a mutual defense alliance

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NATO

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NATO included 12 members

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US Canada Britain France Italy Belgium Denmark Portugal Netherlands Luxembourg Iceland

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Soviet’s military alliance

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Warsaw Pact

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Communists established what in china

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People’s Republic of China

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defeated chinese nationalist fled to an island called

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Taiwan

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where the US split Korea

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38 parallel of latitude

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Pres. Truman to send who to South Korea

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Macauther

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US and South Korean forces were pushed into

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Pusan

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Macauther ordered daring invasion behind enemy lines at

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Inchon

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war fought with limited supplies to contain an area

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limited war

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Truman fired who in combat

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Macauther

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in 1952 who was elected as president

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Eisenhower

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turning point in the Cold War

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Korean War

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Defence agreements with Japan south korea and twian

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SEATO

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systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within

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subversion

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Told HUCAC that several government spies were former spies or communists

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Chambers

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Chambers called who a communist spy

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Alger Hiss

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people who were charged for espionage for spying for the Soviets

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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US and British cryptographers working for a project code named______ cracked soviet code

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Venona

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Required union leaders to take oaths saying they wasnt communists

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taft heartly act

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created the FBI

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Hoover

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communists were danger at home and at a broad and made distributed a booklet accusing Democratic leaders of corruption

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McCarthy

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act that made it illegal to establish a totalitarian Government in the US,

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McCarran Act

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head of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations

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McCarthy

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McCarthy’s tactics of damaging reputations

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McCarthyism

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express a formal disapproval of an action

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Censure

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Eisenhower said what about Nuclear weapons

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more bang for the buck

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practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force opponent to back down

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Brinkmanship

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CIA

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central intelligence agency

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Iranian prime minister had nationalized the Anglo Iranian Oil Company

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Mohammed Mossadegh

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after Stalin died who became leader

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Khrushchev

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emerged from suez canal crisis as a hero to the arab people

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Nasser

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all arab people should be united into one nation

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Pan Arabism

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would get congress to authorize the use of military force whenever the president wanted to help middle east resist the communist

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Eisenhower Doctrine

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worlds first satellites

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Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2

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all Arab people should be united into one nation

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Pan Arabism

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relationship between military and the defense industry to promote military spending

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military industrial complex

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established communist regime in cuba

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Fidel Castro

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