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Chapter 27.1 844-850
Chapter 27 People, Places, Terms, Events
Term | Definition |
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Big Three | Allied leaders: F.D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin |
Joseph Stalin | Allied leader from Soviet Union, 1945 |
Winston Churchill | Allied leader from Great Britain, 1945 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Allied leader from United States, 1945 |
Yalta | Conference where F.D. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin made important decisions about the future of European governments |
Nuremberg | trials in November 1945, that put high-ranking Nazis on trial in the German city of Nuremberg |
United Nations | an organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts. |
Cold War | struggle for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union |
containment | preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influence around the world |
Truman Doctrine | policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism |
Marshall Plan | Western Europe received more than $13 billion in U.S. loans and grants for European economic recovery between 1948 and 1952 |
Fair Deal | in the U.S., a higher minimum wage, the creation of a national health insurance plan for all Americans, and expanded Social Security benefits for the elderly |