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1
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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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7
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The powers divided what country into four zones

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Germany

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8
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The allies removed what from Germany as war reparations

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industrial machinery

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9
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Who was the first American delegate to the UN?

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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10
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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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12
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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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14
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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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16
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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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18
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The US policy against communism

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Containment

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19
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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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20
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What was West Germany also known as?

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The Federal Republic of Germany

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21
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What was East Germany also known as?

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The German Democratic Republic

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22
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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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23
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Mutual defence alliance founded in 1949

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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24
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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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25
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Communists established _________ in October 1949

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People’s Republic of China

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26
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Led Communist Chinese forces in the Chinese Civil War

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Mao Zedong

27
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Who successfully tested their first atomic weapon in September 1949

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Soviet Union

28
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The UN Security Council used __________ to keep representatives of the newly formed communist China out of the UN

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Veto powers

29
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American and South Korean troops were pushed back by North Korean troops to

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Pusan

30
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The Allies divided Korea at the ______? Demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea

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38th parallel of latitude

31
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MacArthur ordered an invasion behind enemy lines at this port in Korea

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Inchon

32
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War fought with limited commitment of resources to achieve a limited objective

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Limited war

33
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Why did president Truman fire Douglas MacArthur

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Insubordination

34
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Where were peace negotiations started for the Korean war

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Panmunjom

35
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President at the end of the Korean War

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

36
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Defense organization created by the United States at the end of the Korean war

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SEATO

37
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Systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using spies working within

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Subversion

38
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General fear of Communist subversion after WW2

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The Red Scare

39
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Director of the FBI that went before the HUAC in 1947

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J. Edgar Hoover

40
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Head of the Screen Actors Guild; testified that there were Communists in Hollywood; Future President

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Ronald Reagan

41
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Testified that Alger Hiss, an accused Communist spy, had given him secret State Department documents

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Whittaker Chambers

42
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Representative of California who later became president of the United States

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Richard Nixon

43
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Couple accused and convicted of espionage against the United States; Condemned to death

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Rosenbergs

44
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Couple accused and convicted of espionage against the United States; Condemned to death

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Rosenbergs

45
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Project that cracked the Soviet Union’s spy code; provided strong enough evidence that the Rosenbergs were guilty

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Venona

46
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Required union leaders to take oaths saying they were not communists

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Taft-Hartley Act

47
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Required it’s faculty to take oaths and fired 157 that refused

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University of California

48
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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

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Joseph McCarthy

49
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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

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McCarran Act/Internal Security Act

50
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Tectic of damaging reputations with vague, unfounded charges

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McCarthyism

51
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To express a formal disapproval of an action

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Censure

52
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Eisenhower’s vice president

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Nixon

53
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Policy of threatening a massive response

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Massive retaliation

54
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practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force an opponent to back down

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brinkmanship

55
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Britain and France invaded _______ after the US offered to finance construction on a dam on the Nile River

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Egypt

56
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Nations whose economy is primarily agricultural

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developing nations

57
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Operated the covert operations to stop the spread of communism

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CIA

58
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Iranian prime minister who nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

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Mohammed Mossadegh

59
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Emerged as Soviet leader after the power struggle in the Soviet Union

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Nikita Khrushchev

60
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Emerged as Soviet leader after the power struggle in the Soviet Union

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Nikita Khrushchev

61
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Idea that all Arab people should be united into one nation

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Pan-Arabism

62
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Extended the Truman Doctrine and the policy of containment to the Middle East

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Eisenhower Doctrine

63
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The world’s first space satellites

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Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2

64
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Informal relationship between the military and the defense industry

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Military-industrial complex

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