Hint
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Answer
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1st conference with the "big three"
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Yalta
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Stalin did not support what country's pre war gov.
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poland
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Stalin demanded how much from Germany
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20 billion
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int’l peacekeeping organization
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united nations
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April 1945 president ___ dies
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Roosevelt
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33rd president, unprepared
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truman
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sec of state
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Marshall
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Conflicting goals where brought out at this conference
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Potsdam
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countries subject to
Soviet domination to act as buffer against attacks
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satellite states
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in order for communism to survive it must
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spread
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two countries who remained independent of S.U. control
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Finland & Yugoslavia
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Churchill description division of Communist &
non-Communist life.
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iron curtain
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how long was the cold war
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46 years
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us policy of stopping the spread of communism
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containment
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who called for us help while fighting comm control
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Greece & Turkey
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1947 speech asking Congress to allow
U.S. to take leadership role in world and protect nations
threatened by communism.
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Truman doctrine
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European nations draw up econ.
recovery prog. & U.S. support it financially.
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Marshall plan
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costed the us about ___in Europe
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13 billion
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U.S., Brit. & France merge occupation zones in
Germany creating
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west Germany
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S.U. created communist E. Germany. blocking____ to Allied access.
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west berlin
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Amer./Br. planes supply blocked W.
Berlin.
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berlin airlift
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1949: 12
nation alliance to protect e/ other in event of a war
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NATO
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mutual military assist.
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Collective Security:
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S.U. response to NATO: S.U. & sat.
nation mutual military assistance agreement
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Warsaw pact
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china nationalist leader
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Jiang Jieshi
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Chinas communistic leader(winner)
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Mao Zedong
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Korea was split at the
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38th parliament
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N. Korean troops
stormed into S. Korea to take it by force. N. Kor.
Captured S. Kor. Capitol of ____
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Seoul
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this begins the ___ in 1950
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Korean war
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Truman sent ___ to lead UN troops in
Korea.
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MacArthur
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Chinese/ N. Korean forces drove UN forces back into S. Korea
creating a
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stalemate
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macarthur wants to open a second
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front
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a cease fire was signed in
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1953
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defensive alliance to stop spread of communism
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SEATO
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1952 ___ takes office
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Eisenhower
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the _-bomb is developed
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H
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Sect. State for ike
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John Foster Dulles
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*risking war to protect Amer.
interests
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Massive retaliation
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*struggle to gain weapons control
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arms race
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*military power of U.S. & allies made so
strong that no power would attack for fear of
retaliation.
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deterrence
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build a stronnger
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nuclear arsenal
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1953 soviet leader ____ takes over
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Khrushchev
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U.S. acted to support pro-Amer. govt. here
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Latin America
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U.S. would use force to protect M.E.
nations request. help against Comm. influence
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Eisenhower doctrine
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Egypt ruler
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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(1956) Nasser responded by capturing Br. owned Suez
canal.
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Suez crisis
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created in 1947, Ike used it for covert operations to
protect Amer. interests
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CIA
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soviets create ____ to elimate planes carring bobs
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ICBM
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Sov. used rocket to launch 1st artificial
satellite to orbit Earth: Amer. fear raised.
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Sputnik
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(1960): Amer. spy plane shot down 15 m. in
sky by Sov. guided missile.
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u-2 incident
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Nat’l Defense Ed. Act: create more scientists and
teacher’s of science, this leads to the creation of
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NASA
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illegal to teach/advocate violent
overthrow of U.S. govt.
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smith act
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illegal to teach/advocate violent
overthrow of U.S. govt.
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HUAC
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refused to answer HUAC ques.: served jail
sentences and blacklisted.
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Hollywood ten
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famous scientist is investigated
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Oppenheimer
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1952 quota discrim.
against Communist nation immigrants.
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McCarren-Walter Act
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govt. agent found guilty
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Alger Hiss
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Communist party
members accused and convicted of passing
atomic bomb secrets to Soviets (Julius and Ethel)
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rosenburgs
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