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Disc Tech 8.5
New Powers Emerge
Term | Definition |
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Yalta Conference | Feb 4 to 11, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met in a resort town in southern Ukraine to discuss defeat Nazi Germany and Japan |
Harry S. Truman | 33rd president of the US and served as a US National Guard captain in France during World War I |
Israel | a country in the Middle East along the eastern Mediterranean Sea |
superpower | a nation having strong influence over other nations and international affairs, economically, militarily, or both |
reparations | payments made as compensation for harm done |
diplomats | an official representing a country abroad |
United Nations | intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security and develop friendly relations |
Security Council | the UN five permanent members, US, UK France, Soviet Union, and China—would each have power to veto any potential decision |
Potsdam Conference | created four occupation zones in Germany; US, UK, France, Soviet Union would each occupy one zone: the occupying force would keep peace in the zone |
Moscow Peace Conference | spring of 1947, officials from the US, Soviet Union, UK and France met in Sov Union to form a treaty with Germany |