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Tehran

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Nov 43. FDR, Churchill and Stalin. Stalin agreed to enter war in pacific after Europe. For promised Anglo americn second front would be established in 6 months. Willing to let Stalin have some polish land but supported polish gov in London, unresolved

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Casablanca

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January 43. FDR and Churchill meet to discuss allied strategy. Stalin declined. Couldn’t accept immediate second front opening in Western Europe. Decided on only unconditional surrender

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Yalta

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Feb 45. Fdr wanted to give Stalin land in pacific

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Molotov

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Soviet unions prime minister that met with Truman and Truman chastised him for violations of yalta accords.

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Potsdam

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Churchill (replaced by clement Attlee), Truman, Stalin
Accepted adjustments of polish German border but refused to permit Russia to claim any preparation s from the American French and British zones. Confirmed Germany would remain divided with west zone united into one nation and the Russia zone separate.

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Chiang Kai shek

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Nationalist leader of China

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George F kennon

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For containment

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The Truman doctrine

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Support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressure

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What were the motives to reconstruct Western Europe

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Humanitarian concern for people fear Europe would remain an economic drain on the US if not rebuilt desire for strong European market for American goods West Europe might fall to Communist Party

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Economic cooperation administration

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Agency that would administer the Marshall plan

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Atomic energy commission

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Supervisory body charged with overseeing all nuclear research civilian and military approved development of new hydrogen bomb nuclear weapon more powerful than ones from 45

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National security act of 1947

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Reshaped nation’s major military and diplomatic institutions. New department of defense to oversee all branches of our armed services combining functions of war and Navy department

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty organization declared that armed attack against one member would be considered an attack against all

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Warsaw Pact of 1955

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Soviet union alliance with Communist governments in Eastern Europe

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NSC 68

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National Security Council report issued in 1950 outline shift in American position distinguish between areas of vital interest the US and areas of less importance to nations foreign-policy and called on America to share burden of containment allies

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Serviceman’s readjustment act of 1944

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G.I. Bill of rights provided economic and educational assistance to veterans

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John L Lewis

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Lead United mine workers on strike shutting down coal fields for 40 days

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Fair deal

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Social Security benefits raising minimum-wage program to ensure full employment to federal spending and investment permanent sampling and practices act public housing and slum clearance long-range environmental and public works planning and government promotion of scientific research

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Taft Hartley act

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Labor-management relations act of 1947 m legal closed shop continue to permit creation of union shop permitted states to pass right to work laws prohibiting that. Truman vetoed

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States rights party

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Dixiecrat. Nominated storm Thurmond of South Carolina

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Progressive party

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Left-wing Henry a Wallace as candidate in 1948 election

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Americans for Democratic action

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Democratic liberals unwilling to leave the party attempted to dump the president try to entice Eisenhower but he refused that they conceded to Truman

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Thomas E Dewey

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Republican candidate in 1948

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National housing act of 1949

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Provided for new construction of units of low income housing company by long-term rent subsidies

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Film noir

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Kind of stomach that origination named for those dark lightning that was characteristic of the shop portrayed loneliness of individuals in an impersonal world and suggested menacing character of the age delimbing possibility of us distraction addressed nuclear fear I can twilight zone Ircon

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Shelley versus Kramer

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1948 quarts couldn’t be used to enforce private covenants meant to bar blacks from residential neighborhood

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Syngman Rhee

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Anti-Communist but nominally democratic in charge of pro-Western government of Korea

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Douglas MacArthur

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Wants to attack China itself evolving communist voice fired

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House un-American activities committee

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Held widely publicized investigations to prove that under democratic rule the government had tolerated communist subversion

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Whittaker Chambers

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Former communist agent who turned against party and became editor at Time magazine and told committee that hiss passed classified State Department documents through him to the Soviet Union

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J Edgar Hoover

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Director of federal Bureau of investigation FBI harassed allegedly radicals

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Mccarron internal security

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Required all communist organizations to register with government unpublished records creating other restrictions chairman featured Congress overrode

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Klaus Fuchs

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Versus scientist testified that he delivered to Russians details of manufacture of bomb case settled on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg based on testimony of Ethels brother David Green glass

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McCarthys assistants

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Roy Cohn and David schine

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Adlai E Stevenson

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Democratic nomination candidate for 1952

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Republican candidate in 1952

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Eisenhower

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John Foster Dulles

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Eisenhower Secretary of State Denounced containment policies of Truman years of passive argued US should pursue active program of liberation

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Dulle’s policy of massive retaliation

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US would respond to communist threats to its allies not by using conventional forces and local conflict but by relying on the different massive retaliatory power

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Ho Chi Minh

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Communist opposed French rule in Vietnam determined to win independence For his country

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Mohammed Mossadegh

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Nationalist Prime Minister of Iran resisted presence of West Corporation

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Mohammed Rezza Pahlevi

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Young Shaw elevated by the CIA from constitutional monarchy to become ruler closely tied with America

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Gen. Gamal Abel Nasser

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Leader of Egypt

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Aswan dam

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To be built across the Nile

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Jocobo arbenz Guzman

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Led leftist government in Guatemala thought it was communist

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Fulgencio Batista

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Ruled as military dictator since 1952 in Cuba

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Fidel Castro

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Lead resistance movements to Batista

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Nicholi Bulganin

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Soviet Union premier met with Eisenhower and Nations leaders in Geneva no agreement

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Succeeded Bulganin as premier

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Francis Gary Powers

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Pilot of an SU plane shot down in Russia held in captivity

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