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Val Lorwin
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Victim of McCarthyism
State Dept. employee
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Nikita Khurshchev
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Stalin's replacement in USSR
March 1953
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George Orwell
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1984
Big Brother = Stalin + Hitler
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Yalta Conference of '45
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Poland issue
Imprecise agreement
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William O. Douglas
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"declaration of WWIII"
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Winston Churchhill
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Gives iron curtain speech in '46
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Containment
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American policy in which the threat of Communism would be kept from spreading
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George F. Kennan
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In charge of affairs at US embassy in Russia
Mr. X
Foreign Affairs
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Greece
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Civil War
Comms vs. Monarchy
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Truman Doctrine
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$400 Mil to aid Turkey and Greece
March 12, 1947
Unless US acted, free world might fall
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Walter Lippmann
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Critic to Truman doctrine
Proved correct in next 2 decades
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George C. Marshall
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Sect. of State under Truman
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Marshall Plan
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Containment
financial packet for Western Europe
$1.7 Bil for West. Europe, but must show financial records
Hoover sent to evaluate Europe
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Attack on one= attack on all
First military alliance since Revolutionary War
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Warsaw Pact
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Alliance of Soviet Union & its Eastern satellites
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