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Origins of the Cold War Flashcards

1
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What section of the UN has a member from every represented country in the world?

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General Assembly

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What is the UN Department that is minimized to 11 members, 5 permanent and 6 temporary?

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Security Council

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Who are the permanent members of the Security Council?

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USA, Britain, France, Russia, China

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February 1945, FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met at where? A Soviet resort on the Black Sea, to plan the postwar world

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Yalta

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5
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What was a key issue discussed at Yalta?

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Poland

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What document echoed the Atlantic charter, asserting “the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live”?

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Declaration of a Liberated Europe

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The four main allies split Germany up into what? Taking control over it totally.

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Zones

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What was the era of confrontation and competition between nations, lasted from about 1946 to about 1990

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The Cold War

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Soviet leaders believed that ________ was a superior economic system that would eventually replace capitalism

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Communism

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10
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What was the first Human Rights Treaty?

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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

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Who was the first US delegate to the UN Security Council?

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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What promoted the inherent dignity of every human being and was a commitment to end discrimination?

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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13
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Truman was strongly….

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Anti-Communist

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14
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At this conference, Truman suggested the Soviets take reparations from their zone, while the Allies allowed industry to revive in the other zones

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Potsdam Conference

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The Communist Countries of Europe came to be called what?

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Satellite Nations

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16
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What separated Eastern Europe from Western Europe?

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The Iron Curtain

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

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The Long Telegram

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18
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What did George Kennan propose what became basic American policy throughout the Cold War?

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Containment

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19
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In August 1946, Stalin demanded join control of the…

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Dardanelles

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20
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The Marshall Plan would give European nations American aid to Rebuild their economies. What was another name for this plan?

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European Recovery Program

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21
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The United States created West Germany, also known as…

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The Federal Republic of Germany

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The Soviets created East Germany, also known as…

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The Democratic Republic of Germany

23
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What began in June 1948 and continued until Spring 1949, and brought more than 2 million tons of supplies into Berlin

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The Berlin Airlift

24
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What does NATO stand for?

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

25
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NATO allowed who to rearm and join its organization?

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West Germany

26
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The Soviets responded to NATO by creating a military alliance called what?

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Warsaw Pact

27
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Who was the leader of Communist China?

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Mao Zedong

28
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Defeated Nationalists fled to the small Island called what? It’s also known as Taiwan.

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Formosa

29
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Communist established what in September 1948?

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People’s Republic of China

30
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Where is Korea divided?

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38th Parallel

31
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The American and South Korean troops were driven back into a small pocket of territory near

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The Port of Pusan

32
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On September 15, 1950, MacArthur ordered a daring invasion behind enemy lines at…

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The Port of Inchon

33
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MacArthur pushed the North Koreans north to where? The border of North Korea and China

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Yalu River

34
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war fought with limited commitment of resources to achieve a limited objective, such as containing communism

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Limited War

35
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In July 1951, peace negotiations began where?

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Panmunjom

36
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Who was elected President in 1952?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

37
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The US also formed the what?

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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

38
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Who did the US sign defense treaties with?

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Japan, Taiwan, Korea

39
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What marked a turning point in the Cold War?

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The Korean War

40
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What is the era of American fear of Communism?

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Red Scare

41
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systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within

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Subversion

42
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Director of the FBI?

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J. Edgar Hoover

43
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What does HUAC stand for?

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House of Un-American Activities Committee

44
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Head of the Screen Actors Guild?

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Ronald Reagan

45
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Accused Alger Hiss of being a Communist?

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Whittaker Chambers

46
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Which California Representative convinced his colleagues to continue the hearings to determine who lied?

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Richard Nixon

47
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Couple that got charged for being Soviet spies?

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

48
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What was the name of the project that cracked the Soviet code?

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Venona

49
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What act required Union leaders to take oaths saying that they were not Communists?

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Taft-Hartley Act

50
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Who targeted Secretary of State Dean Acheson and George C. Marshall for disloyalty

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McCarthy

51
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What act made it illegal to attempt to establish a totalitarian government in the US, and required all Communist-related organizations to publish their records and register with the US attorney general

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McCarran Act

52
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McCarthy’s tactic of damaging reputations with vague, unfounded charges became known as

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McCarthyism

53
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to express a formal disapproval of an action

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Censure

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