Post-WWII Historical Terms

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Meeting of allied powers to discuss details of the joint occupation of Germany after WWII

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Potsdam Conference

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Huge family-run corporations that monopolized Japan's economy

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Zaibatsu

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postwar international organization aimed at working together for world peace

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United Nations

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one of the first US delegates to the United Nations, and social activist

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Secretary of State who promoted European recovery by helping to secure economic aid for Western Europe

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George Marshall

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US policy to stop the spread of Soviet communism

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containment

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general who commanded troops in the Korean War and opposed Preside Truman's war strategy

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Douglas MacArthur

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president who made good on his promise to end the Korean War, and used a covert approach to international affairs

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Dwight Eisenhower

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U.S. senator who waged war on alleged communist sympathizers

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Joseph McCarthy

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revolutionary communist leader of China

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Mao Zedong