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Joseph McCarthy
- US politician who accused many citizens of being communists
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Nuremberg Trials
- trials conducted by International Military Tribunal
- former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, humanity, and war crimes
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National Security Act
- passed in response to perceived threats from Soviet Union after WWII
- established the Department of Defense, the CIA, and the National Security Council
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Marshall Plan
- US program of economic aid fro the reconstruction of Europe
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- Arrested in the summer of 1950 and executed in 1953
- both were convicted of committing espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union
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My Lai Massacre
- troops brutally massacred innocent women and children in the village of My Lai
- led to opposition to the war
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Kent State Killings
- students were protesting against Nixon ordering US troops to seize Cambodia w/out consulting congress
- police fired into an angry crowd of college students at Kent State University