Chapter 26 - The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

Soviet Union

The ________ has been committed to restoring its 1941 borders from the earliest days of fighting Hitler.

Republic of China

The People's ________ was proclaimed by Mao on 1 October 1949 and an alliance was signed in February 1950.

Stalin

In July 1945, ________ not only regained but also extended the territory of the Potsdam conference, annexed Eastern Poland with Western approval, and without it, the small Baltic nations.

electoral campaign

The 1952 ________ was dominated by Korea.

Defense

________ spending in the Second World War has spurred the western economies to move people massively to the west who want jobs during the war.

Berlin blockade

The ________ gave the Truman administration both a crisis and a chance.

Korea

The conflict in ________ had serious consequences for the use of executive power.

Executive Order

The President signed ________ 9835 in two weeks after the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine on March 21, 1947, which establishes a civilian loyalty program for all employees of the federal government.

West Berliners

Operation Vittles "supplied ________ with almost 2 million tons of supply.

policy of containment

The ________ depended on America's capability to back up its military commitments, and Truman put his belief in the US monopoly on nuclear weapons.

Harry Truman

________ had considered "crackpots and the lunatic fringe "by some of Roosevelt's advisers.

Republican Sen Joseph R McCarthy

________, from Wisconsin announced in an awesome Lincoln Day speech delivered by the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, on 9 February 1950 that the US has been banned by the traitorous actions of men in the U.S.

Korea

In 1948 and 1950 in ________, Truman unilaterally instituted a draft peacetime order without a declaration of war, he had bypassed the bomb of thermonuclear hydrogen (or H), which had been first fully tested in November 1952.