APUSH Ch. 27
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Philippines | became independent. Us retained important naval and air bases. July 4, 1946
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| Strom Thurmond | ran for president in 1948 election against Henry Wallace and Harry S. Truman. part of State's rights party
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| 22nd amendment | limited power of the president to two full terms
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| Sino-Soviet Pact | signed by Stalin and Mao. world-wide communist conspiracy?
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| Inchon | amphibious assault reversed tide of Korean war. moved towards china. by macaurther
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| Missouri | place of Truman's retirement
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| Greece and Turkey | first test of the Truman Doctrine's containment policy
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| Thomas Dewey | republican candidate in 1948 election
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| Levitt | track housing "white fleet". suburban development
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| George Keenan | expert of communism who believed Soviet's needed a western enemy to stay in power
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| G.I. Bill | Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1946. gave transition support for former troops. provided millions
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| election of 1948 | Truman, Dewey, Thurmond, Wallace. Truman victory
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| years of babyboom | 1945-1960
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| Churchill | Great Britian's prime minister who attended Atlantic Charter, Casablanca, Teheran conferences
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| Lippman | coined the term "cold war"
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| USSR | Cold war with U.S. advocates of communism
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| Years of FDR's presidency | 1933-1945
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| Years of Truman's presidency | 1945-1953
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| Atlantic Charter | blueprints for UN. FDR only one to embrace all of the principles
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| Casablanca Conference | Invasion through Sicily. Axis unconditional surrender
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| unconditional surrender |
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| Teheran | first meeting on the Big Three
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| UN Security Council | US, GB, France, China, USSR
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| Yalta | last meeting of the Big Three. division of Germany into four parts.
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| Teheran | first meeting of the Big three
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| UN Security Council | US, GB, France, China, USSR
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| Yalta | last meeting of Big Three. division into four occupation
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| chinese Civil War | between Chiang Kai-shek (Nationalists) and Mao Zedong (Communists). ended up in Communist hands
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| Chinese Nationalists | Kuomintang. lost civil war
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| Chiang Kai Shek | leader of Chinese Nationalist party
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| Mao Ze Dong | leader of chinese communist party
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| Truman Doctrine | containment policy first tested in greece and turkey
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| Economic Cooperation Administration (Marshall Plan) | offered aid to European countries as seen fit. rebuilt western european democracies
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| 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia | brought domestic support for Marshall plan
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| Federal Republic of Germany | West germany (BR, US, FR)
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| German Democratic Republic | East Germany (USSR)
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| Berlin blockade | USSR tightens security over their zone
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| NATO | millitary alliance for defending all allies from outside attack-attack one you attack all
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| Warsaw Pact | counter to NATO by soviets
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| Taiwan (Formosa) | where US supported Chinese Nationalists
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| Fair Deal | reform program defeated by Truman's fights with Congress and pressing foriegn policy concerns of the Cold War
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| Taft Hatley Act | limited the power of labor unions
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| State's Rights Party | in reaction to Truman's support of civil rights. Nominated Thurmond
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| Macaurther | fired by truman after wanting to use atomic power on china
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| Korean War dates | 1950-1953
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| National Security Act | provided for a centralized Department of Defense that replaced the War Department, created National Security Council and CIA
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| NSC-68 | new policy towards Soviets.
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| 38th parallel | korea was divided
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| Alger Hiss | convicted of perjury in 1950 and sent to prison
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| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | found guilty of selling atomic bombs to USSR and sentenced to death
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| HUAC | est. in 1939 to seek out nazis. reactivated in postwar years to find communists
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| Whittaker Chambers | former communist and editor of TIME. informed HUAC that Hiss supplied him w/ classified documents in 1937-38
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| J. Edgar Hoover | director of FBI. used his authority to investigate and harass radicals
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| Joseph McCarthy | declared communists were still working for the State Department. sensational accusations. crusader against domestic subversion
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower | republican who won election of 1952.
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