
Flashcards Mod 12 The Cold War Advanced
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10th Grade
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Doug Free
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Harry S. Truman
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U.S. President (Democrat) when the United Nations and NATO are created and at the start of the Korean War, he fired General MacArthur during the war.
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Mao Zedong
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Leader of the Communists who took over China in 1949; remained in power until his death in 1976, one of only 5 Communist countries today.
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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Convicted and executed in 1953 for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union; first executed spies during the Cold War.
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Joseph McCarthy
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Republican senator from Wisconsin in the late 1940s and early 1950s; led a crusade to investigate officials he claimed were communist; discredited in 1954, died in 1957.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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U.S. President (Republican) who ended the Korean War, increased the arms race, promised to defend the Middle East from communism, and during the Sputnik and U-2 incident.
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet Union Premier from 1953 - 1964, who opposed President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis and decided to build the Berlin Wall.
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John F. Kennedy
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U.S. President (Democrat) during the Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crisis, and added to the space race by challenging NASA to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
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