Unit 11 people
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Syngman Rhee | democratically elected leader of South Korea |
| Ray Kroc | established the McDonald's franchise in the 1950's |
| Alger Hiss | high ranking member of the state department accused of spying for the Soviet Union |
| George Marshall | Truman's secretary of state who said we should have aid to all European countries that need it |
| Winston Churchill | he created the term "iron curtain" |
| Kim II-Sung | communist dictator of North Korea |
| Josef Stalin | he set up a blockade of Berlin in response to attempts by the west to reunify Germany |
| George F. Keenan | American ambassador to the Soviet Union who proposed the policy of containment |
| John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's secretary of state who proposed that the US could stop the spread of communism by promising to use all the force it had available |
| Nikita Khrushchev | he became the dictator of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death |
| Douglas McArthur | he was the original commander of the UN forces during the Chinese Civil War |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the communist forces during the Chinese Civil War |
| Felix Longoria | solder killed during WWII who was denied burial in his Texas hometown because he was Hispanic |
| Jonas Salk | doctor who created vaccine for polio |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | leader of the nationalists during the Chinese Civil War |
| Mark Clark | he replaced the original UN commander in Korea after Truman fired him |
| Joseph McCarthy | Wisconsin senator who led the crusade against Communism in the 1950's |
| Harry Truman | he made the statement that "it must be the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjection by armed minorities or outside pressures" |
| Gary Powers | pilot who was shot down and convicted of espionage in the Soviet Union |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | had a leadership style which called "dynamic conservatism" but which avoided controversial issues |
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