Cold War Flashcards

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in 1944 delegates from 39 countries met in Washington DC to create

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United Nations

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has the power to vote on resolutions and choose the non permanent members of security council

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General Assembly

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responsible for international peace and securiety

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Security Council

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where FDR Churchill and Stalin met to discuss the plan for post war world

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Yalta

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the declaration the echoed the Atlantic Charter saying all people can their form of govt

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Declaration of Liberated Europe

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era of confrontation and competition between nations

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Cold War

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FDR believed that this was key to world peace

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World Trade

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First US delegate to join the UN

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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First UN human rights treaty

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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

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promoted the inherent dignity of all humans and to end discrimination

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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would give European nations American aid to rebuild their economies

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Marshall Plan

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proposed the European Recovery Program, or Marshall Plan.

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George Marshall

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was to help countries resist being taken over by Communist forces.

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Truman Docterine

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The Communist Countries of Eastern Europe came to be called

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satellite nations

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15
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separated Eastern Europe from Western Europe.

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Iron Curtian

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diplomat George Kennan responded to the soviets with what became known as the

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Long Telegram

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

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Long Telegram

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soviet zone of Germany

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East Germany or German Democratic Republic

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bringing 2 million tons of supplies to berlin also symbolized American determination to contain communism

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Berlin Airlift

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was founded as a mutual defense alliance

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NATO

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NATO included 12 members

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US Canada Britain France Italy Belgium Denmark Portugal Netherlands Luxembourg Iceland

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Soviet’s military alliance

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Warsaw Pact

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Communists established what in china

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People’s Republic of China

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defeated chinese nationalist fled to an island called

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where the US split Korea
38 parallel of latitude
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Pres. Truman to send who to South Korea
Macauther
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US and South Korean forces were pushed into
Pusan
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Macauther ordered daring invasion behind enemy lines at
Inchon
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war fought with limited supplies to contain an area
limited war
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Truman fired who in combat
Macauther
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in 1952 who was elected as president
Eisenhower
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turning point in the Cold War
Korean War
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Defence agreements with Japan south korea and twian
SEATO
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systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within
subversion
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Told HUCAC that several government spies were former spies or communists
Chambers
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Chambers called who a communist spy
Alger Hiss
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people who were charged for espionage for spying for the Soviets
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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US and British cryptographers working for a project code named______ cracked soviet code
Venona
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Required union leaders to take oaths saying they wasnt communists
taft heartly act
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created the FBI
Hoover
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communists were danger at home and at a broad and made distributed a booklet accusing Democratic leaders of corruption
McCarthy
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act that made it illegal to establish a totalitarian Government in the US,
McCarran Act
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head of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations
McCarthy
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McCarthy's tactics of damaging reputations
McCarthyism
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express a formal disapproval of an action
Censure
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Eisenhower said what about Nuclear weapons
more bang for the buck
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practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force opponent to back down
Brinkmanship
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CIA
central intelligence agency
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Iranian prime minister had nationalized the Anglo Iranian Oil Company
Mohammed Mossadegh
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after Stalin died who became leader
Khrushchev
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emerged from suez canal crisis as a hero to the arab people
Nasser
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all arab people should be united into one nation
Pan Arabism
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would get congress to authorize the use of military force whenever the president wanted to help middle east resist the communist
Eisenhower Doctrine
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worlds first satellites
Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2
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all Arab people should be united into one nation
Pan Arabism
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relationship between military and the defense industry to promote military spending
military industrial complex
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established communist regime in cuba
Fidel Castro