The 1945 wartime meeting among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Prime Minister Winston Churchill
• Premier Josef Stalin

1. Post war conference represented by the"Big Three," and later Clement Attlee and President Harry S Truman
2. They gathered to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on May 8 (V-E Day).
3. The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of war.

The four major allies and founders of United Nations:

• Churchill
• Stalin
• Roosevelt
• Kaishek

1. The first major international crisis of the Cold War USSR blocked Berlin.
2. Supply of vital necessities to West Berlin by air transport primarily under U.S. auspices.
3. It was initiated in response to a land and water blockade of the city that had been instituted by the Soviet Union in the hope that the Allies would be forced to abandon West Berlin.

As Secretary of State, he outlined the American Plan.

The European Recovery Program, as it was formally known, became known as the Marshall Plan.

• Explorer of Russia
• His writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union

1. Is a military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America created after WWII.
2. Its fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means.

1. Truman requested $400 million to aid Greece and Turkey from Soviet Union invasive control.
2. Truman argued that the U.S. should support Greece and Turkey economically and militarily to prevent their falling under Soviet control.

An international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in:

• international law,
• international security,
• economic development,
• social progress,
• human rights
• and achieving world peace.

• Was a Chinese Communist leader.
• Led the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War
• Was the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)

1. Is commonly known as China or mainland China
2. It is a socialist republic ruled by the Communist Party of China

1. He was a General of the Army.
2. He was removed from command by President Harry S. Truman for publicly disagreeing with Truman's Korean War Policy.
3. Disgusted and disillusioned by MacArthur's absence from the front lines, the failure of promised relief, and MacArthur's retention of adequate food for himself and others on Corregidor, his starving troops on Bataan coined the verse "Dugout Doug".

1. Location: Okinawa, Japan
2. Info: Part of WWII, the Pacific War
3. Result: Allied vicotry

• Nazi's Germany's Invasion of Soveit Union and USSR.
• The mission was failed.

Was an African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a landmark for labor and particularly for African-American labor organizing.

• Signed by Roosevelt to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry.
• It was the first federal law to promote equal opportunity and prohibit employment discrimination in the United States.

• During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany.
• In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.
• He kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System.

• A Communist party member and Soviet spy, he later renounced communism and became an outspoken opponent.
• He is best known for his testimony about the perjuryespionage of Alger Hiss.

1. The most immediate task facing President Nixon was the Vietnam War.
2. He initially escalated the conflict, overseeing secret bombing campaigns, but soon withdrew American troops and successfully negotiated a ceasefire with North Vietnam, effectively ending American involvement in the war.
3. His foreign policy was largely successful; he opened relations with the People's Republic of China and initiated détente with the Soviet Union.

• against entry of WWII
• largest anti-war organization ever

first African American to play in the Majors League Baseball

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D-day

Normandy, France

Allied victory

• Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
• National Recovery Administration (NRA)
• Public Works Administration (PWA)
• Social Security Act
• Works Project Administration

• Supreme Court (All-Republican)
• Against his policies on Glass Steagull Act