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Why was Stalin mad at the us?

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We kept bomb development a secret and the delay in attacking Germany

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What happened between the US and USSR?

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They became rival superpowers

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This is the international peacekeeping organization

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UN

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This was the final wartime meeting of the big 3

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Potsdam conference

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What happened at the Potsdam conference?

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War reparations would come from the zones of Germany and Stalin went pack on his yalta promises

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Why did the soviets claim Eastern Europe?

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They needed it to prevent future invasions

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This is a country dominated politically and economically by another

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Satellite nation

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This is the American policy to stop the spread of soviet influence

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Containment

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This was a phrase by Churchill to describe the line that divided east and west Europe

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Iron curtain

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Thigs was the US/USSR conflict without direct confrontation from 1945-1991

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Cold War

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This was the plan to provide money and military support to free nations threatened by communism

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Truman doctrine

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Where was the Truman doctrine first used?

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Greece and turkey

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This was a plan by Secretary of State George Marshall to give money to European nations to rebuild

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Marshall plan

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When did the US, GB, and France combined their German zones?

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1948

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This was the Us/GB operation to deliver supplies and break the soviet blockade in Berlin (1949)

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Berlin airlift

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When was east Germany formed?

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1949

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This is a defensive military alliance formed in 1949

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North Atlantic treaty organization (NATO)

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What did the Cold War prevent?

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A return to isolationism

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This man was the nationalist Chinese leader backed by the US, but he ran a corrupt government

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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This man was the Chinese communist leader backed by the soviets who promised land reform

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Mao Zedong

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Where did the nationalists go to after the Chinese civil war?

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Taiwan

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How was Korea divided?

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Half soviet and half US

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This is the split between north and South Korea

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38th parallel

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How did the Korea war begin?

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The soviets provided N Korea with weapons to attack S Korea

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What did the non communist nations do to aid S Korea?
They sent militaries with MacArthur in command
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How did the North Koreans get pushed back to North Korea at first?
A surprise landing behind enemy lines in Inchon
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What happened after Inchon?
The US pushed north then china joined the war in November 1950
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What happened once the Chinese joined the war?
The UN was pushed back to the 38th parallel, then 2 years of trench warfare saw no advanced
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What did MacArthur want to do?
Use bombs and invade China
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What happened instead of the bombs in Korea?
We went over the 38th parallel again
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How did MacArthur get fired?
He went above Truman's head to get what he wanted
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What happened because of Truman's firing?
Public opinion swayed away from him
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When did the soviets issue a ceasefire?
June 1951
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When was the Korea armistice signed?
July 1953
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What was the Korea war considered?
A staremate
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What happened as a result of the Korea war?
Increased fear of communist aggression
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This investigated communist influence in the movie industry
House Un-American activities committee (HUAC)
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These were 10 witnesses from the film industry that refused to cooperate with the HUAC and were inprisoned.
Hollywood ten
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This was the list of 500 actors, writers, producers, and directories that were not allowed to work because they were alleged communists
Blacklist
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This man was a former state department official who was accused of spying for the soviets by a former spy in 1948
Alger Hiss
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These people were activists for the American communist party who were implicated in giving the soviets info on the atomic bomb
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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What happened to the rosenbergs?
They were found guilty of espionage and sentenced to death in 1953
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What was significant of the rosenbergs?
They were the first US civilians executed for espionage
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This man was a famous anti-communist senator who was known for unsupported accusations
Senator Joseph McCarthy
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This was the movement that attacked people suspected of communism in the 50's
McCarthyism
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What did McCarthy claim to have?
A list of communists in the state department
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Why did all of mccarthy's accusations come from the senate?
He had legal immunity there
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This is the more powerful response to the atomic bomb
Hydrogen bomb
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This man was the 34th president
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961, R
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This man was a U2 pilot who was shot down in 1960 and sentenced to 10 years in prison
Francis Powers
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This man was Eisenhower's anti communist Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles
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This is the US policy of threatening an enemy with all out war
Brinkmanship
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This was used to gather information abroad
Central Intelligence Agency, 1947
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How did the CIA weaken governments unfriendly to the US?
Covert missions
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This was a 1955 military alliance with the USSR and 7 satellite nations in response to west Germany joining NATO
Warsaw Pact
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This was a 1957 declaration that the US would protect the Middle East from soviet attacks
Eisenhower doctrine
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This man took over after Stalin's death and favored a peaceful policy with scientific competition
Nikita Khrushchev, 1953-1964
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When was the Sputnik launched?
1957
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This was when high altitude planes were used by the CIA to photograph missile sites
U2 incident

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