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Truman
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Long loyalty to demos and FDR
concern for the popular welfare
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Bernard Baruch
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US delegate to UN atomic energy commission
called for an international Atomic development authority empowered to own and operate materials and facilities for atomic energy.
this proposed agency would have power to punish violators and be exempt from the Sec Coun veto
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Stalin
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Soviet leader
determined to keep the nations of eastern europe under soviet control
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Churchill
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British prime minister
"iron curtain" speech
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Mao Tse Tung
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Communist leadre of China
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General Douglass Macarthur
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The military commandre of japan
set up a democratic nation there
by 1951 Japan was on its own, although US military presence was permitted
wa slater sent to South korea when Stalin and KIm-IllSung agreed to attack it
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General George C. Marshall
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Truman's new secretary of state
saw pressur emounting in Greece and Turkey to turn communist
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George F. Kennan
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Diplomat int he state dept.
developed idea of containing spread of communism
policy was to not enter the Russian sphere of influence but to block the soviets form Further moves
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Henry A Wallace
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Resigned from Truman's cabinet as a leftist seeing the policy as a hardened Soviet line
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Robert A Taft
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Rightist and isolationist
doubted American capacity for this role
tried to change the wagner act
his purpose was to curb the growing power of unions
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Dean Acheson
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New sec of state
did not really feel Korea was part of US strategic interests and worried about possible attack and defens eof korea
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Kim Ill-Sung
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He and Stalin agreed to attack south Korea-to liberate the south.
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Eisenhower
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1951 NATO forces were put under him
nominated as a republican in election of 1952
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Klaud Fuchs and Allan Hay
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Uncovered disclosures of communist spy efforts in Canada and Britain
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Alger Hiss
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Former state dept official
convicted of perjury in 1948 and dneounced as a communist spy
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