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Where did delegates from 39 countries meet and what did they discuss in 1944?

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Washington D.C.; United Nations

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Which five countries were permanent members of the UN?

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Britain, France, China, Soviet Union, and the United States

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What was responsible for international peace and security?

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Security Council

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Soviet resort on the black sea where FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met to plan the postwar world

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Yalta

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Key issue discussed at Yalta

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Poland

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Declaration that asserted the right of all people to choose the type of government that they want to live under

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Declaration of Liberated Europe

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The powers divided what country into four zones

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Germany

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The allies removed what from Germany as war reparations

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industrial machinery

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Who was the first American delegate to the UN?

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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The first UN human rights treaty was?

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Convention of prevention and punishment of genocide

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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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President after FDR passed away

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Truman

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Soviet Foreign minister

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Molotov

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Conference near Berlin where Truman suggested that the Soviets take reparations only from their zone

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Potsdam Conference

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Message, thousands of words long, explaining Kennan’s views on the Soviets

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Long Telegram

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Separated eastern Europe from Western Europe

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Iron Curtain

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17
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Was to help countries resist being taken by communist forces

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Truman Doctrine

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The US policy against communism

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Containment

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Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed

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European Recovery Program or Marshall Plan

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What was West Germany also known as?

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The Federal Republic of Germany

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What was East Germany also known as?

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The German Democratic Republic

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Dropping of 2 million tons of supplies into the city of Berlin

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Berlin Airlift

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Mutual defence alliance founded in 1949

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Creation of a military alliance in Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union

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Warsaw Pact

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Communists established _________ in October 1949
People's Republic of China
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Led Communist Chinese forces in the Chinese Civil War
Mao Zedong
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Who successfully tested their first atomic weapon in September 1949
Soviet Union
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The UN Security Council used __________ to keep representatives of the newly formed communist China out of the UN
Veto powers
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American and South Korean troops were pushed back by North Korean troops to
Pusan
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The Allies divided Korea at the ______? Demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea
38th parallel of latitude
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MacArthur ordered an invasion behind enemy lines at this port in Korea
Inchon
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War fought with limited commitment of resources to achieve a limited objective
Limited war
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Why did president Truman fire Douglas MacArthur
Insubordination
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Where were peace negotiations started for the Korean war
Panmunjom
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President at the end of the Korean War
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Defense organization created by the United States at the end of the Korean war
SEATO
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Systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using spies working within
Subversion
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General fear of Communist subversion after WW2
The Red Scare
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Director of the FBI that went before the HUAC in 1947
J. Edgar Hoover
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Head of the Screen Actors Guild; testified that there were Communists in Hollywood; Future President
Ronald Reagan
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Testified that Alger Hiss, an accused Communist spy, had given him secret State Department documents
Whittaker Chambers
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Representative of California who later became president of the United States
Richard Nixon
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Couple accused and convicted of espionage against the United States; Condemned to death
Rosenbergs
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Couple accused and convicted of espionage against the United States; Condemned to death
Rosenbergs
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Project that cracked the Soviet Union's spy code; provided strong enough evidence that the Rosenbergs were guilty
Venona
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Required union leaders to take oaths saying they were not communists
Taft-Hartley Act
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Required it's faculty to take oaths and fired 157 that refused
University of California
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Proclaimed that communists were a danger at home and abroad; distributed a booklet accusing Democratic Party leaders of corruption and protecting communists
Joseph McCarthy
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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
McCarran Act/Internal Security Act
50
Tectic of damaging reputations with vague, unfounded charges
McCarthyism
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To express a formal disapproval of an action
Censure
52
Eisenhower's vice president
Nixon
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Policy of threatening a massive response
Massive retaliation
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practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force an opponent to back down
brinkmanship
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Britain and France invaded _______ after the US offered to finance construction on a dam on the Nile River
Egypt
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Nations whose economy is primarily agricultural
developing nations
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Operated the covert operations to stop the spread of communism
CIA
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Iranian prime minister who nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Mohammed Mossadegh
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Emerged as Soviet leader after the power struggle in the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
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Emerged as Soviet leader after the power struggle in the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
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Idea that all Arab people should be united into one nation
Pan-Arabism
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Extended the Truman Doctrine and the policy of containment to the Middle East
Eisenhower Doctrine
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The world's first space satellites
Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2
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Informal relationship between the military and the defense industry
Military-industrial complex

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