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always spoke his mind
known as "Give em hell Harry"
had a sign that said "The Buck Stops Here" |
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| in 1946 four times as many children as adults |
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worked for navy
buys an old potato field in Ny and comes up with idea of premaid houses
LEVITTOWN |
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1) any school a soldier wants to go to will be paid for by the gov
2)elligible for a G.I. loan
still in effect today |
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all future presidents are limited to two terms
two years or less of another presidents term you can still be elected two more times |
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| Presidential Succession Act |
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| if bothe president and v.p. die the speaker of the house gets to be president, then president protemp, then secratary of state |
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central intelligience agency
secret service, gather info from other countries
agents report back to LANGLEY, V.A. every day |
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head of american coal mine association
shuts down the coal(strike) b/c they want more money |
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new foreign policy
from now on, use money and military strength to contain the spread of communism from going any further than it already has |
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general assembly
security council
international court |
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| every country has a vote in the u.n. |
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made up of the 5 largest countries in the world, usa, soviet union, taiwan, england, france "BIG FIVE"
had the power to veto |
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| if two countries have a dispute, they would appear before the u.n. and they would decide who is right and who is wrong |
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secratary general is the leader of the U.N.
norwegian |
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| sharing atomic techonology with the rest of the world, never went into plan b/c we couldnt be sure people would use it for good |
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| we have atomic bombs and soviet union doesnt and they are racing to have one |
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airlift supplies over the communist sector into west berlin
ussr doesnt shoot planes down b/c we have atomic bombs and they dont |
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| tried to warn u.s. about the communist takeover |
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| is descending on europe a communist dictatorship |
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biggest economic and package in all history
money sent to wester europe to help them build themselves up so communists cant takeover |
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named after president
designed to make sure greece and turkey dont get under communist control |
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| designed to give economic aid to latin and south america |
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military alliance
a communist attack in any nation in western europe, u.s. will declare on them |
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| communists have a military alliance with eastern europe |
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| leading nazis put in trial in the city of NUREMBURG and all hung there |
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| military alliance to protect israel from arabs |
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| first president of israel |
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Egypt, Syria, Jordan
vowed to stay arab and get jews off their land |
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| rebuilds japan & japanese allow us to have bases |
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his life was spared because it wasnt his idea to go to war
japanese leader |
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japanese warlord
he was held responsible and sentenced to death |
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japanese doctor
he performed experiments on american pows |
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vietnamese diplomat who writes to truman b/c they are tired of being a colony
"uncle ho" |
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born and raised in vietnam
went to school in u.s
uses gorilla warfare |
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| if vietnam was allowed to fall to the communists, all of southeast asia would |
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| military alliance with southeast asia |
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| a russian spy who was close to truman he was sent to prison for espionage |
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exposed Alger Hiss
california senator |
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| a house committee on unamerican activities |
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new york prosecutor
runs against Harry S. Truman |
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communist leader in china who fought with u.s. against japan
"chairman Mao"
wanted to come out of the hills and take over china "THE LONG MARCH" |
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| leader of taiwan/ Formosa |
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| two jewish russian immigrants that worked on the manhatten project and sold the secrets fo the atomic bomb to russia |
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| government that oversees all weapons |
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outlawed being fired for trying to start union or not joining union
"magna charta of labor" |
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