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Key Individuals- Chap 6
People in Chap. 6
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06/26/2014

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Harry S. Truman
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  • made 3 key announcements:
  • U.S. Policy containments, NSC-68: stop the spread of communism
  • The Truman Doctrine to support "free people"
  • The Marshall Plan: provide money to rebuild Europe
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Clement Atlee
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George Kennan
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  • created the "Long Telegram"
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Josip Broz tito
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  • (1892-1980) 1/2 Croatian, 1/2 Slovenian, founder of Tito's Partisans which was Croats, Serbs, and Muslims all bound together through communism, under his regime you were not allowed to express nationalism b/c he wanted a multi-ethnic group, so when he died in 1980, nationalism came back stronger than ever
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Ho Chi Minh
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Organized the league for the independence of VIetnam. Communist, North Vietnam
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Joseph McCarthy
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  • He originally supported Franklin D. Roosevelt and the new deal.
  • resigned as a circuit judge and joined the Marines.
  • born on a farm in Appleton, Wisconsin, on 14th November, 1908.
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Jean- Paul Sartre
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  • Taken prisioner
  • By the Germans during World War II
  • I am, therefore I think

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Simone de Beauvoir
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  • A french existentialist philosopher and feminist.
  • She grew up during World War 1 and originally wanted to be a nun during her younger years.
  • Never married her life love Jean Paul Satre.

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David Ben-Gurion
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  • On May 14, 1948
  • a leader of provisional gov't of Israel
  • he announced the establishment of the state of Israel, enacting the UN partition Plan
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The Long Telegram
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  • 1946 war-time alliance between the United States and the U.S.S.R.
  • George F. Kennan argued that the system of the U.S. and USSR were incompatible
  • Soviet security depended on destroying the Ameican way of life
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