Ch. 27.1 Vocab
Order by
29 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Yalta Conference | Three leaders made important decisions about the future of European Conference |
| Nuremburg Trials | High-ranking Nazis got put on trial in German City, Series of trials in 1945 |
| United Nations | An organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts |
| Cold War | "Struggle for global power between the Unites States and the Soviet Union" |
| Containment | preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influences around the world |
| Truman Doctrine | Provided aid to help foreign countries fight communism |
| Marshall Plan | Western Europe received more than $13 billion in U.S. loans and grants for European economic recovery between 1948 and 1952 |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | United States joined nine Western European countries, along with Iceland and Canada |
| GI Bill of Rights | Offered veterans money for school, as well as loans for houses, farms, and businesses |
| Fair Deal | Included a higher minimum wage, the creation of a national health insurance plan for all Americans, and expanded Social Security benefits for elderly |
| Taft-Harley Act | Reduced power of union |
| Big Three | Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Franklin D. Roosevel of the United States, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union |
| Hans Frank | oversaw the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Jews in Poland |
| Strom Thurmond | Ran as a Dixiecrat in 1948 |
| Clemet Atlee | British prime minister after Churchill |
| Winston Churchill | represented Great Britain at Yalta—one of the "Big Three" |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and represented the US on the UN Commission on Human Rights |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanese general executed in 1948 |
| Jackie Robinson | Brooklyn Dodgers were lucky to have him! |
| Thomas Dewey | very disappointed NY governor |
| George C. Marshall | Truman's secretary of state; plan named after him helped Europe get back on its feet |
| Franklin Roosevelt | passed away before the Potsdam Conference after attending Yalta |
| Hermann Goering | architect of Hitler's "final solution" |
| Joseph Stalin | expanded his control of the Soviet Union and Poland throughout the rest of eastern Europ |
| Rosie The Riveter | was asked to return to the kitchen . . . |
| Harry S. Truman | doctrine named after him provided aid to Turkey and Greece to fight communism |
| International Military Tribunal | tried axis leaders accused of war crimes |
| Satellite States | Countries under complete Soviet control |
| Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill said that and ___ has fallen across the European continent [Divided it] |
First Time Here?
Welcome to Quizlet, a fun, free place to study. Try these flashcards, find others to study, or make your own.