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| More concrete plans for a United Nations organization were drawn up here, an estate near Washington DC in the fall of 1944 |
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| On April 25, 1945, some 1,600 delegates and assistants from 50 nations gather in CA to draft a charter for the UN |
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| The United Nations occupied there in government in a building located here |
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| comprising all member states |
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| composed of 5 permanent members-the US, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union and China-and ten elected members |
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| made up the secretary-general and his under-secretaries |
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| General Assembly, Security Council, Secretariat |
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| the UN consisted of three major organs |
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| the head of Communist Russia's delegation |
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| an official at the US State departmen later implicated as a spy for the Soviet Union |
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| a war fought not with military weapons but with words, diplomacy and ideology |
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| dominated by the Soviet Union |
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| stood between the free world and Communist bloc, included many of the emerging nations in Africa, Asia, and South America |
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| nations supposedly independent but technically under the dominance of another |
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| Julius and Ethel Rosenburg |
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| were convicted of treason in 1951 and executed in 1953 for passing vital information to Russian agents and Klaus Fuchs about the atomic bomb |
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| the director of Britain's nuclear research program |
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| a senator who exposed much Communist activity in the State Department, in the entertainment and intellectual community, and even in the Army |
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| established independent Communist governments but maintained close ties to the Soviet Union |
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| Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslavakia |
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| where the people's republics were set up |
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| Communists established Soviet-dominated puppet governments called this |
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| Soviet occupation zone became the Communist-dominated German Democratic Republic |
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| Churchill could speak of an ________ of tyranny and oppresion having descended upon the nations of Eastern Europe |
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| Truman announced this policy in 1947, declaring that the US would aid any free nation to resist Communist agression |
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| another name for containment, it provided $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, bolstering their resistance to Communism |
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| the European Recovery Program extended credits amounting to $20 billion over the next 4 years following the war in the name of providing a bulwark against further Communist expansion in Europe |
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| the areas of Germany under American, British, and French occupation became known as this |
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| the Americans came to the rescue by establishing this, to save 2 1/4 million West Berliners from starvation |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) |
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| formed an association of countries and delineated a security area in the North Atlantic and in Western Europe |
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| "defensive" military alliance of its own in Eastern Europe |
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| European Economic Community(EEC) |
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| Western Europe formed this common market |
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| the new leader of Russia after Stalin died |
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| the "de-Stalinization" of Russia gave the free world false hope that the danger of communism has decreased with Khrushchev |
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| the dictator of Yugoslavia, eastablished his own brand of Communism outside the Soviet sphere of control |
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the Communist built a wall between East and West Berlin to keep East Berliners from escaping to the West, to freedom,
It was the first time a wall was built to keep people in the country rather than to keep enemies out |
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| a traditional Roman Catholic and a staunch conservative politician, provided the leadership necessary for West Germany to recover from it wartime defeat |
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