AMH 2020 Final
The big 3 - correct answer ✔✔Churchill (GB), Roosevelt (US), Stalin (SU)
Tehran Conference - correct answer ✔✔first time big 3 meet, November 1943, First major meeting
between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France
and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation after the war, (FDR) December, 1943, a meeting
between FDR, Churchill and Stalin in Iran to discuss coordination of military efforts against Germany,
they repeated the pledge made in the earlier Moscow Conference to create the United Nations after the
war's conclusion to help ensure international peace
Yalta Conference - correct answer ✔✔second time big 3 meet, February 1945, agree that germany be
occupied and break it up into zones of occupation (US,GB,SU,France), (FDR) 1945, want quick end to war
"The Big Three" FDR, Churchill and Stalin met. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender
of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the
territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War, Stalin broke promise on free elections and
representative govt. Agree to break Germany into zones of occupation.
Potsdam Conference - correct answer ✔✔The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States,
Britain, and the Soviet Union , outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the
future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War.
No reparations for Stalin.
"Policy of Containment" - correct answer ✔✔1946, intended to control the Soviet Union expansion,
communists tried to take Greece and Turkey but it worked
Truman Doctrine - correct answer ✔✔it will be the policy of the to assist pro western forces anywhere in
the world in any struggle against communism, whether it involves the SU or not.
Marshall Plan: Socio-economic policy - correct answer ✔✔(European Recovery Program) The plan where
the US sent roughly 12 billion dollars to ALL war torn European countries. Russia and its "allies" denied
all donations.
, 1947 National Security Act - correct answer ✔✔Air Force, Joint chiefs of staff, National Security Council,
CIA
NATO 1949 (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - correct answer ✔✔France, Belgium, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, UK, US pledged to come to each others
aid. attack on 1 was an attack on all.
House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) - correct answer ✔✔formed in 1938 to investigate
people in WW2, investigated groups and officials that might be connected to the communist party.
Pinko - correct answer ✔✔soft on communism, communist sympathizer
Julius and Ethel Rosenburge - correct answer ✔✔convicted in 1951 for spying for SU, Arrested in the
Summer of 1950 and executed in 1953, they were convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by
passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union
Fair Deal - correct answer ✔✔Truman's domestic agend that aimed to raise the minimum wage, expand
Social Security benefits, increase federal spending to create jobs, public housing, and a system of
national health insurance; extension of New Deal
Dixiecrats - correct answer ✔✔southern democrats upset with Truman create own party and nominate
Strom Thurman
Douglas MacArthur - correct answer ✔✔He was the supreme allied commander during the Cold War in
1945. After World War II, he was put in charge of putting Japan back together. In the Korean War, he
commanded the United Nations troops. He was later fired by Harry Truman for insubordination.
New media TV - correct answer ✔✔1952 enough homes with 1 TV to make an influence
1952 election - correct answer ✔✔Truman would not seek reelection. The Democrats drafted Adlai
Stevenson, who was unsuccessful. The Republicans decided to back the war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower
who chose Nixon as his running mate. The GOP (repub party) controlled both houses. TV campaigning.