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World War Id's section 3
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05/03/2010

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U.S.S. Indianapolis
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Little boy is loaded on to this ship. After dropping off the bomb at Tinian it's sunk by torpedos. Men die by sharks dehydration, starvation, burns
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Tinian
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Island destination where Little boy was loaded onto Enola Gay. Biggest airport in the world
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Enola Gay
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Airplane that dropped the A bomb on Hiroshima
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Paul Tibbets
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Captain of the Enola Gay
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Little Boy
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Name of the a bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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The long shadow
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the wound from the war lasted longer than the war. more to holocaust than murder. jews were dehumanized and forced to suffer
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Sophie's choice
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duh example of germs making jews unhuman
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Basic Dimensions of destruction
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most destructive conflict in human history...
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Geopolitical impact of WWII
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multipolar politics gone. now there are two powers. maps redrawn populations moved. european powers suffer decline
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Political impact
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different idea of what it means to be conservative- peeps back away from authoritarian/anti democratic. shared assumptions with mainstream left- welfare state. government's role rises
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economic impact
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depression lifted, american economy becomes dominant, us gets power in diplomacy, no longer isioltionsit, marshal plan
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marshall plan
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DUH
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social impact of wwII
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class structure breaks down in england. blacks and women get more rights in america
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cultural impact of wwii
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beat writers, elvis, rock and roll, drugs, illicit sex all increase. things are not as great as they seem. more suburbs and materialism
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Tocqueville's Prophecy of 1830
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sees that us and ussr will be the powers adn because of their different starting points will be rivals
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The "super"
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the h bomb
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Spheres of influence
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one great power has control over one teritory
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Truman Doctrine
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This is the military half of the post-war diplomacy. We will protect any nation attempting to fight off communism. E.G. Greece- shows America's rise in dominance as leader and protecter of democracy
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Berlin Airlift
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In '48 Stalin cut of Berlin roads threatening to starve over 2 million people if they attempted to stop the unification processes. We fly supplies into west Ber, that last over 300 days and Stalin backs down. Shows that an aggressor can be stopped and war prevented without fighting
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Occupations zones of Germany
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Germany, Berlin split into four zones. Thought of only as temporary but Russians try to take all they can from their zone which fucks over the people there but we fly shit in. US and GB's area is Bizonia
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Douglas MacArthur
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appointed Shogun in Japan after the war ended. Helped with the occupation process in Japan
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American imposed reforms in postwar Japan
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we provided mad food. Let Hirohito stay to make occupation platable. New constitution wiht parliamentarly system, women voting, large estates and huge industrial conglomerates broken down to be more effective. We leave in 52 but they keep a lot of our shit
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Italian elections of '48
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Christian Democrats v. Eurocommunists. We played a huge role here. Provided food, money and leaflets for the Dems. Essentially bought this victory which lead to corruption but better than communists. US double standard.
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Iran, 53
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one of the world's major oil producers, primeminister Mossadegh elected democratically but sick of US an GB makin profit off him so he bumps prices a shit load. CIA leads coup against him and puts SAVAK in place
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Chile, 73
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democratically elected leader was overthrown by military with help of US and implemented a anti communist dictator
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Mohammad Mossadegh
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raised the pirces of Iran in 53 cuz was sick of GB and US profiting off his oil. Gets overthrown by US aided coup eventhough he was dem ellected. overthrown by the shah
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Augusto Pinochet
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dictator that replaced the dem ellected Allende who like communism. US was involved in this fishy shit
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Salvador Allende
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Replaced by dictator Pinochet in chille 73
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SAVAK
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evil regime that would torture people and shit that arose because of US over involvement 
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Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe
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sovs try to spread their spheres of influence. Rumania czechoslovokia, east germ, poland, et al We do truman doc and marsh plan to negate this
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NATO
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North atlantic treaty organization. a system of defense. If one nation is attacked others defend it
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Warsaw pact
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same thing as nato except for the commis
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