US History Quiz Chapter 30

Ch. 30 people quiz

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Cards In This Set

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Truman
Long loyalty to demos and FDR concern for the popular welfare
Bernard Baruch
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
Stalin
Soviet leader determined to keep the nations of eastern europe under soviet control
Churchill
British prime minister "iron curtain" speech
Mao Tse Tung
Communist leadre of China
General Douglass Macarthur
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
General George C. Marshall
Truman's new secretary of state saw pressur emounting in Greece and Turkey to turn communist
George F. Kennan
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
Henry A Wallace
Resigned from Truman's cabinet as a leftist seeing the policy as a hardened Soviet line
Robert A Taft
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
Dean Acheson
New sec of state did not really feel Korea was part of US strategic interests and worried about possible attack and defens eof korea
Kim Ill-Sung
He and Stalin agreed to attack south Korea-to liberate the south.
Eisenhower
1951 NATO forces were put under him nominated as a republican in election of 1952
Klaud Fuchs and Allan Hay
Uncovered disclosures of communist spy efforts in Canada and Britain
Alger Hiss
Former state dept official convicted of perjury in 1948 and dneounced as a communist spy