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Baby Boom
The cause of the dramatic population increase of 1940's and 1950's
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Sunbelt
The States of the South and West that became the focus of the economic boom after 1950
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Jospeh Stalin
The tough leader whose violation of agreementsand insistence on establishing a sphere of influence in Eastern Eurpoe helped launch the Cold War
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Berlin
Territory deep inside the Sovit zone of Germany that was itself divided into 4 zones of occupation
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Iran
Oil-rich Middle Eastern nation that became an early focal point of Soviet-American conflict.
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George F. Kennan
Brilliant US specialist on the Soviet Union and orginator of the theory that US policy should "contain" the Soviet Union
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Greece
Southern European nation whose threatened fall to communism in 1947 precipitated the Truman doctrine
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Geroge C. Marshall
Originator of a massive program for the ecomic relief and recovery of devestated Europe
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Japan
Nation that was effectively converted from dictatorship to democracy by the strong leadership of General Douglas MacArthur
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Nurmberg
Site of a series of controversial war-crimes trials that led to the execution of 12 Nazi leaders
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Richard Nixon
Yong California congressman whose investigation of Alger Hiss spurred fears of communist influence in America
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Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin senator whose charges of communist infiltration of the US gov. deepened the antired atmosphere of the early 1950's
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Henry A. Wallace
Former vice president of the US whose 1948 campaign as pro-Soviet liberal split the Democratic party
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Yalu River
Boundary between Korea and China, where the approach of US troops in 1950 brought the Communist Chinese into the Korean War
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Douglas MacArthur
American military commander in Korea, fired by President Harry Truman
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