Quiz 3 Flashcards
(8 cards)
1
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Atlantic First Strategy
A
Roosevelt promises to fight in the Atlantic before fighting anything in the Pacific
2
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Big Three
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Stalin-safe borders, Roosevelt-end empires, free-trade, Churchill-British empire; goal:find common objective but cooperation turns to conflict
3
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Containment Policy
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Keep communism from spreading
4
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European Recovery Plan (Marshall Plan)
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Truman’s response to a severe economics crisis, US will finance European economic recovery
5
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Pres. during cold war
6
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George Kennan
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Wrote the long telegram (8,000 words) Soviets will expand until someone stops them
7
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Harry S Truman
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Pres. after FDR
8
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Iron Curtain
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Divided Central Europe in East and west, divided communist and capitalist
