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The HUAC stands for House Un-American Activities Committee. This was a group of Tht U.S. House Representatives that invested in communism during the Cold War.
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When 10 members of the hollywood fil were accused of having acts to do with communism. The ten hollywood members were not allowed to work for Major Hollywood Studios. They also all got jail sentences.
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The Red Scare was a threat from the U.S. Communist. This had a huge effect on the government and society.
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting between Roosevelt, Churchuill, and Stalin. In this meeting they agreed that Poland , Bulgaria , and Romania would hold free elections.
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World War ll was fought to gain power. All the countries basically wanted to be the leader, above all. This event was important because our people were fighting for our rights
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The Potsdam Conference is when the big three met in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam. They decided to divide Germany into four zones of cocupation ; Soviet , Great Britain, American, and France.
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The United Nations was an organization that may hoped , would succeed where the league of nations had failed. They were trying to establish in peace around the world, and throughout Europe.
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Baby Boom was when the men from the army came back and started making babies. Now that they can afford it.
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The Truman Doctrine established the policy that the United States would offer money to countries fighting communism.
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The Marshall Plan was made to rebuild the economies and spirits of western Europe. They thought that if they could convince people in Western Europe that it would spread communism in that region, but more effectively then it was.
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This was a nuclear warfare between The United states and The Soviet Union. No other country had weapons like these two superpowers.
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NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. They provided the military alliance to counter Soviet Expansion.
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This was the first act in The Cold War. They didnt want communsim to spread internationally so they fought to not divide North and South Korea.
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They were sentenced to death. The man was going by his brothers name til they found out he was a former communist memeber, and the woman was working as his probationer basically his assistant, his sidekick.
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The Warsaw Pact was a rivalry military alliance formed in response to West Germany becoming a member of Nato.
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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-Communist activity. It is usually brought up because of false evidence