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the first UN human rights treaty

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the Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

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the five permanent members of the Security Council

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Britain, France, US, China, & the Soviet Union

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the five permanent members of the Security Council had what power

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Veto power

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the conference where FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met at (also a resort on the black sea)

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Yalta

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after reaching a compromise on Poland, the three leaders agreed on

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the Declaration of Liberated Europe

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the era between 1946 and 1990

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the Cold War

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the first US delegate to the UN

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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the conference where Truman first learned of the successful atomic bomb tests

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Potsdam conference

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American policy to keep the spread of communism

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containment

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separated Eastern Europe and Western Europe

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the Iron Curtain

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gave European nations American aid to rebuild their economies

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the Marshall plan

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the US zone in Germany created as the Federal Republic of Germany, or

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West Germany

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the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic, or

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East Germany

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symbolized American determination to contain communism and not give in to Soviet demands

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the Berlin Airlift

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was founded as a mutual defense alliance in April 1949

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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the Soviet’s created a military alliance in Eastern Europe known as the

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Warsaw Pact

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a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within

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subversion

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in July, 1951, peace negotiations began at _______

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Panmunjom

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the DMZ separating North and South Korea is at the

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38th parallel

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marked a turning point in the Cold War

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the Korean War

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in 1952, who was elected president?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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a WAR fought with LIMITED commitment of resources to achieve a LIMITED objective, such as containing Communism

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a limited war

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on September 15, 1950, MacArthur ordered a daring invasion behind enemy lines at the port of

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Inchon

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the North Korean and Chinese border

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the Yalu River

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American general who was fired by president Truman for INSUBORDINATION
MacArthur
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in 1954, the US signed defense agreements with ___, ___, ___.
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
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the US also created the
South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
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the New red scare began in
September, 1945
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a systematic attempt to overthrow the government by people working secretly on the inside
a subversion
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the director of the FBI was
J. Edgar Hoover
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in 1947, Hoover went before the
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
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HUAC's first hearings in 1947 focused on the
Film Industry
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the leader of the Screen Actors Guild, and testified that there were communists in Hollywood
Ronald Reagan
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who told the HUAC that several government officials were communist spies, including Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
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Hiss sued Chambers for
Libel
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California representative who convinced his colleagues to continue the hearings to determine who lied
Richard Nixon
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the couple who was accused of being communist spies and executed before proof was given
the Rosenbergs
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the project where cryptographers broke the the Soviet Union's spy code, and proved the Rosenbergs guilty
project "Venona"
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required its faculty to take loyalty oaths and fired 157 people who refused
the University of California
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required union leaders to take oaths saying that they were not communists
the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
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required union leaders to take oaths saying that they were not communists
the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
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proclaimed that communists were a danger at home and abroad and became chairman of the senate subcommittee on investigations in 1953
McCarthy
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made it illegal to attempt to reestablish a totalitarian government; communist-related organizations to publish their records and register with US attorney general
the Internal Security Act / McCarran Act
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to express a formal disapproval of an action
censure
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a policy of threatening a massive response against a communist state
massive retaliation
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the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force an opponent to back down
brinkmanship
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the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force an opponent to back down
brinkmanship
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to build support among Arabs, ___ ___ ___ offered to help Egypt finance the construction of a dam on the Nile River
Secretary of State Dulles
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nations whose economy is primarily agricultural
developing nations
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Iranian prime minister who nationalized the anglo-Iranian oil company
Mohammed Mossadegh
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in 1956, ___ ___ emerged as the new soviet leader after Stalin's death in 1953
Nikita Krushchev
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president of Egypt who emerged from the Suez crisis as a hero to the arab people
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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president of Egypt who emerged from the Suez crisis as a hero to the arab people
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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by 1957, Nasser began working with Jordan and Syria to spread _______, which is the idea that all Arab people should be united into one nation
pan-arabism
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Eisenhower asked Congress to authorize military force whenever the president thought it necessary, became known as
the Eisenhower doctrine
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essentially extended the Truman doctrine and the policy of containment in the middle east
the Eisenhower doctrine
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the world's first space satellites
Sputnik I an Sputnik II
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the world's first space satellites
Sputnik I an Sputnik II
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Eisenhower invited Krushchev to visit the US in late 1959, which led to the two agreeing to a summit in
Paris
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an informal relationship that some people believe exists between the military and the defense industry to promote greater military spending
military-industrial complex
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Eisenhower saw Fidel Castro establish a communist regime in
Cuba

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