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The Cold War (403-409)
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04/12/2017

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Dumbarton Oaks
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The place where plans for a United Nations were drawn up
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San Francisco
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Delegates and assistants from 50 nations met in 1945 to draft a charter for the UN
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New York City
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Location of the United Nations Building
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General Assembly
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Comprised all member states
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Security Council
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Composed of five permanent members--the United Staes, Great Britain, France, The Soviet Union, and China
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Secretariat
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Made up of the secretary-general and his undersecretaries
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Andrei Gromyko
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Head of Communist Russia's delegation
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Alger Hiss
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An official at the U. S. State Department later implicated as a spy for the Soviet Union
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Convicted of treason against the U. S. by passing information to Russian agents
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Klaus Fuchs
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Director of Britain's nuclear research program who was convicted for supplying Moscow with an atomic bomb trigger
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Joseph P. McCarthy
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Exposed much Communist activity in the State Department, entertainment and intellectual community, and the Army
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People's republics
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Puppeted governments that maintained close ties to the Soviet Union
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Truman Doctrine
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Announced by President Truman that the U. S. would aid any free nation to resist Communist aggression
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Marshall Plan
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The U. S. lent money to help rebuild Europe after World War II
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Berlin Airlift
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The Americans helped West Berlin through the winter of 1948-1949
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NATO
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A defense pact signed in April 1949
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Warsaw Pact
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A "defensive" military Alliance created by Russia with Eastern Europe
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European Economic Community
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Formed by Western Europe in response to the domination of Eastern Europe by the Soviets
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Emerged as Russia's leader after Stalin's death
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Marshal Tito
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Dictator of Yugoslavia who established his own brand of Communism outside of the Soviet Union
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Berlin Wall
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A symbol of Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe that was build in 1961
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Konrad Adenauer
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Led West Germany to recover from its wartime defeat
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