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APUSH WWII/Cold War
Question | Answer |
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Taft-Hartley Act | obstacle that slowed the growth of organized labor |
baby boom | birth rate explosion in the 1940/50s |
Truman | "average man's average man"; followed Roosevelt |
Yalta Conference | the Big Three met (FDR, Churchill, Stalin) to discuss WWII's end and what to do with Germany and Japan |
Nuremberg Trials | Nazi leaders were tried and punished for war crimes |
Iron curtain | term for the invisible wall between East and West Germany |
Kennan | formulated the "containment doctrine" |
Truman Doctrine | stated the US would aid any country resisting communist aggression |
CIA | new government program to coordinate foreign fact-gathering |
MacArthur | took control of the democratization of Japan |
Taiwan | Chinese nationalists fled here after defeat |
Mao Zedong | new Chinese communist leader after kicking out Nationalist leaders |
NATO | European pact with the US that said if one country is attacked, they will all come to each other's aid |
Thirty eighth | parallel on which Korea was divided |