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The Effects of WWII
US History - covers post WWII/Cold War
| Yalta | Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt - met in Yalta in 1945 - final strategy for postwar Germany |
| Potsdam | Stalin, Truman, Atlee - finalized how to divide Germany into four zones |
| 2 Superpowers Post WWII | Russia and US |
| Imperialism | Colonial occupation of countries - need post WWII - more countries pushed for independence |
| Soviet/Eastern Bloc countries - GOAL | Spread world-wide communism |
| US & Western Democracies - GOAL | Containment of Communism and the eventual collapse of the Communist world |
| Espionage | CIA (US) KGB (Russia) Gathering information for use against another country |
| Arms Race | Nuclear Escalation - primarily between the US and Soviet Union (Russia) |
| "Iron Curtain" | Winston Churchill (1946) |
| Japan Occupation | General Douglas MacArthur - new constitution - abolished their armed forces - set up a democratic government |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Issued by the UN (United Nations) 1948 -condemned slavery, torture, upheld free speech and religion |
| Geneva Convention | Governs the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and POWS (Prisoners of War |
| Nuremburg Trials | Key leaders of the Nazi Party were brought to trial for war crimes |
| Truman Doctrine | Truman asked Congress for money to help Turkey and Greece fight Communism (1947) the US gave them $400 million |
| Marshall Plan | Plan to rebuild Europe - George Marshall - Secretary of State (1948) US gave $12.5 Billion - Russia and Eastern Europe did not accept |
| Berlin Airlift | Stalin had blocked supplies to West Berlin - US and GB had supplies airlifted into the citizens of West Berlin - 1948 |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization - 12 Western European nations agreed to work together to defend Western Europe - 1949 |
| Warsaw Pact | Russia and the Eastern Bloc countries formed this to combat NATO - 1955 |
| Big Ivan | 1961 the most powerful nuclear weapon ever exploded - 4,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| Brinkmanship | John Foster Dulles - SOS - believed that only going to the brink of war could the US discourage communist aggression |
| Nikita Krushchev | Leader of the Soviet Union 1953 |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | the US would use force to help any nation threatened by communism |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Sputnik 1 | Oct. 4, 1957 Russians launched the first satellite |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Congress passed legislation to educate more scientists |
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