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leader of south korea during war
syngman rhee
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popular with the US; overthrew cuba
fidel castro
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leader of north korea during war
kim il sung
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led communists; bad
mao zedong
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led nationalists; good
chiang kai-shek
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led un troops during korean war
; spoke out publicly against truman, so truman fired him
douglas macarthur
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republican candidate who ran against truman in the election of 1948
thomas dewey
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represented the southern democrats in election of 1948
strom thurmond
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picked by the progressive party in the election of 1948
henry wallace
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john dulles?
- sec of state who thought a liberation policy would have a stronger approach
- opposed truman's containment policy
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who felt that the only way to get the soviets to agree on anything was to push them to the brink of war?
john dulles
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leader of the soviets; talked about working with the US
nikita krushchev
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head of the FBI?
j edgar hoover
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whittaker chambers?
- time magazine editor
- recieved US govt documents from Hiss, known as the pumpkin papers
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alger hiss?
state dept official accused of being a communist spy
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the rosenbergs?
- julius and ethel were arrested, convicted and executed for espionage
- ethel was believed to have typed the documents, which was fake
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john kenneth galbraith?
- economist
- said that updated technology allowed the US to produce lots of goods and services for americans
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Dr. Jonas Salk?
developed the vaccine for polio
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berlin airlift?
- germany was divided in half by allies
- soviets took eastern germany and france, GB, US took western half and created 3 sectors
- allies decided to form 1 govt for west by stalin didnt want it so he cut off supplies into east berlin
- we airlifted supplies over the blockade
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