Cold War
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- Yalta
- First peace of conference after WWII
- Zionism
- The movement seeking a Jewish homeland Palestine.
- Hildegard Knef
- A German actress
- David Ben-Guriion
- Zionist leader
- Kruschev
- Soviet Leader
- Mao Zedong
- Made reforms that gave land to peasant
- United Nations
- Aarepresentative from each country meets to discuss world problems
- Loyalty and Security Act
- 2 presisdents who create plans to investigate all government employees to protect national security.
- NATO
- Agroup of countries who have an aliancewith the U.S
- zaibatsu
- Huge corporations run by single families that had monopolized the Japanese economy.
- Berlin Wall
- Aa structure built to keep east Germans locked in
- Communism
- A government and economic pkan in which the governement own everything
- CheckpointbCharlie
- U.S. checkpoint on Berlin Wall
- Fidel Castro
- Communist leader of Cuba
- Truman Doctrine
- Plan that says the US will help any people trying to overthrow and oppressor
- Kennan's Containment
- Plan to prevent the spread of communism
- Truman
- President after WWII
- Smith Act
- Illegal to discuss overthrowing the government
- Adolf Eichmann
- architect of the jewish examination program
- Kennedy
- President of the U.S.
- Cold War
- A war of ideas fought between the U.S. and Soviets
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Soviet set up missile bases in Cuba
- Marshall Plan
- Aid given to western Europe
- Postdam
- second peace conference after world war 2
- Stalin
- Communist of Russia; very evil
- Hollywood Ten
- A group of California film directors and writter that went to jail.
- National Defense Education Act
- This act appropiated millions of dollars to improve education in science, mathematic and foreign language.
- Douglas MacArthur
- Allied supreme commander
- Hideki Tojo
- Japan's premier during the war.
- Clement Attlee
- Great Britain's prime minister after Churchill
- Spuntnik
- Fist satellite launched into space
- Warsaw Pact
- An alliance of countries with the Soviet Union
- Nuremberg Trial
- German war crimes
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Federal agency created in late 1940's to conduct covert operations.
- Korean War
- War begun to stop the spread of communism