History Flashcard

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Meeting of U.S. president Harry S Truman, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin after Germany's surrender in World War II

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Potsdam Conference

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Huge corporations run by single families that monopolized the Japanese economy before World War II.

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Zaibatsu

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War crimes trials of high-ranking Nazi officials held by an international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, began in 1945.

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Nuremberg Trials

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International organization chartered in 1945; created to settle problems between nations.

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United Nations

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Movement pushing for the formation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

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Zionism

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Architect of the Jewish extermination program; avoided persecution by hiding his identity and escaping to Latin America

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Adolf Eichmann

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Zionist leader who was a main supporter of making Palestine the Jewish homeland

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David Ben-Gurion

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Long power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union; waged mostly on economic and political fronts.

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Cold War

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Countries controlled by the Soviet Union.

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satellite nations

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U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War that sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet communism.

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Containment