AMSCO 8.1 Latest 2023 Already Graded A

AMSCO 8.1 Latest 2023 Already Graded A Big Three: allies during WWII; Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom - Churchill, United States - Roosevelt Tehran Conference: First major meeting between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation after the war Yalta Conference: 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war Potsdam Conference: July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction. Harry Truman: Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb Cold War: 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. Dwight Eisenhower: United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany Self-determination: Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves Hydrogen Bomb: A thermonuclear bomb which uses the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen Military-industrial complex: Eisenhower first coined this phrase when he warned American against it in his last State of the Union Address. He feared that the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the military would lead to excessive Congressional spending.