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USA and USSR
The only two superpowers
Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to
Potsdam Conference
wartime acts of cruelty and brutality that are judged beyond the accepted rules of war and human behavior
War Crimes
an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
Nato
US invested in rebuilding Western Europe after WWII to avoid it falling to communism
Marshall Plan
A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
Cold War
established to keep avoid another World War.
United Nations
After WWII, Germany was divided into two countries, this part was communist in government and had a command economy
East Germany
British, American and French zone of Germany and was democratic.
West Germany
Germany divided into 4 zones
US, British, French, Soviet Union
Founding of the United Nations
San Francisco Charter
wife to FDR. First U.N Representative to the USA
Elenor Roosevelt
Goal of the United Nations
World Peace
Made up of 5 permanent members (Britain, China, France, United States, and Russia) and 10 rotating members
Security Council (UN)
airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
Berlin Airlift
A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate. Vietnam and Korea
Proxy war
