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Cold War Stuff
| Term/Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| IMF | international monetary fund (regulated currency exchange rates) |
| World Bank | US created this and supplied most of funding, promoted economic growth in postwar world |
| Who died, making Truman president? | franklin d Roosevelt |
| UN | peace-making group of countries |
| 2 divisions of UN | security council, assembly |
| 5 countries dominating the UN security council | US, Britain, USSR, China, France |
| Nuremburg Trials | when US tried German war criminals in order to wipe out nazism |
| portion of germany bound to soviet union | east germany |
| 4 countires that split up Germany and austria postwar | US, USSR, France, Great Britain |
| who controlled west Germany | at first US, France, and Brit then they let it go. |
| capital of germany that was split up 4 ways | berlin |
| what was the berlin airlift? | the Russians tried to take Berlin over by cutting off all resources to berlin, so we airlifted supplies, food, etc. |
| what country did stalin linger in seeking oil? | iran |
| name of USSR govt | kremlin |
| who made up the containment doctrine (hint: not truman) | kennan |
| what did the containment doctrine say? | we couldnt kill communism, but we could contain it |
| what was the first action of the truman doctrine? | tons of $$ to greece then turkey to save them from russian conquest |
| what is the marshall plan | we gave huge amounts of money to countries who were suffering post-war and trying to keep communism out. we got a lot of allies this way. |
| what 3 things did the national security act establish? | CIA, Department of defense, and national security council |
| home base of the UN | san francisco |
| where is the department of defense housed and who heads it | pentagon, secretary of defense |
| who is directly under the secretary of defense | joint cheifs of staff- army, navy, air force |
| function of the national security council? | advise president on security matters |
| voice of america? | radio broadcasts behind iron curtain |
| what system was created to draft ppl into the army? | selective service system |
| who democratized and paved way for economic recovery in japan? | macarthur |
| who lost in the fall of china? | the nationalists, led by chiang kai-shek |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | executed, accused of leaking bomb secrets |
| truman's nickname among republicans | high tax harry |
| who was going to be the original democratic nominee instead of truman? | eisenhower |
| name of truman's domestic economic plan that built off the new deal | fair deal |
| what did the NSC-68 do | quadrupled our defense spending |
| in charge of military efforts in korea | macarthur |
| how long did it take for us to restore the borders in korea | 2 weeks |
| what country stepped in to help north korea | china |
| why was macarthur fired | he wanted to nuke the koreans |
| how long did men die in korea while waiting for peace talks to conclude | 2 years |
| causes of recession early in truman's presidency? | inflation up 6% in one month, rapid demobilization |
| how did truman stop the railway strike | threatened to draft them |
| why was truman called the accidental president | became prez when FDR died |
| where was truman born | lamar, missouri |
| truman was FDR's (#) VP | 3rd |
| truman's highest approval rating | 87% |
| what war did truman serve in | WW1 |
| who said, "the buck stops here" | truman |
| who said, "if you cant stand the heat get out of the kitchen" | truman |
| objective of new deal | give americans more opportunity |
| what was the manhattan project? | nickname for development of atomic bomb |
| robert oppenheimer | cheif scientist of manhattan project |
| where first a bomb was dropped | hiroshima |
| where second a bomb was dropped | nagasaki |
| who introduced the idea of the a bomb to FDR | einstein |
| 4 reasons for dropping the bombs on japan | 1. pearl harbor and baton death march (revenge!) 2. cold war act 3. end WWII 4. save american lives |
| 4 reasons against atomic bomb | 1. murder 2. didnt know if it would work 3. our old bombs had been successful enuf 4. didnt know if japan was going to surrender to russia |
| 4 results of atomic bomb | 1. ended WWII 2. started cold war 3. nuclear weapons introduced 4. we had sole occupation of japan |
| name of domestic program to solve post war problems | 21 point program |
| what did executive order #9981 do | integrated armed forces |
| what athlete integrated baseball | jackie robinson |
| what was the name of the campaign truman did to win the election | whistlestop campaign |
| what was the red scare | ppl were freakin out looking for communist spies |
| who taught us to duck and cover? | bert the turtle |
| truman's campaign slogan | give em hell, harry! |
| why did the fair deal only have limited success? (3 reasons) | 1. recession 2. had to focus more on foreign policy 3. american ppl didnt want to change |
| what future president was an excellent commie hunter? | nixon |
| alger hiss | good commie hunter, got sent to prison |
| joseph mccarthy | made false accusations about people being communists just to get reelected |
| h bomb or a bomb-more powerful? | h bomb (1000x) |
| whats the perk of being one of the 5 permanent members of the UN? | you get absolute veto power |
| what was project paperclip? | brought german scientists from WWII to USA |
| what does USSR stand for? | union of soviet socialist republics |
| American advantages going into cold war (5) | 1. strong military 2.better economy 3. more allies 4. we had it good post WWII 5. a bomb |
| USSR advantages going into WWII | 1. larger population 2. larger army 3. closer proximity to cold war conflicts 4.larger land size |
| tokyo war trials | got bad guys of WWII in japan |
| who coined the term "iron curtain" | winston churchill |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, military alliance |
| 22nd amendment | limited president to 2 terms |
| article 5 | an attack against one is an attack against all |
| what was the civil war in greece about | capitalists and communists had been fighting for 3 years |
| reasons 4 recognizing israel (3) | 1. humanitarian (holocaust survivors) 2. containment (gain ally in Middle East) 3. political (got jewish voters) |
| who resigned because of the recognition of isreal | marshall |
| results of us recognizing israel (3) | 1. jews got their homeland 2. israel is an ally now 3. anti-american feeling from displaced arabs |
| what event established the german occupation | potsdam conference |
| codename for berlin airlift | operation vittles |
| who was the candy bomber aka uncle wigglywings | gail halvorsen |
| who had china's vote in the UN at first after chinese revolution | taiwan (ROC) |
| ho chi minh | leader of communism in vietnam |
| where was the forgotten war and why was it forgottten | korea, because it wasnt on TV and it ended in a tie |
| what line splits N and S korea | 38th parallel |
| KPR- real name, capital, leader, what it stands for | (North Korea), pyonyang, kim il sung, korean poeples democratic republic |
| ROK- real name, capital, leader, what it stands for | (south korea), seoul, syngmann rhee, republic of korea |
| 4 causes of Korean War | 1. imperialism 2. both superpowers of russia and USA withdrew 3. Acheson line 4. soviet permission |
| acheson line? | acheson put into ppls minds that we didnt care about south korea, really just an oversight |
| what allowed to UN to get involved in korean conflict | russia boycotted the UN |
| effects of korean war on the US | 1. kept communism out of SK 2. many casualties 3. ends in a tie 4. truman's approval rating down to 31% |
| what was operation chromite | we attacked from behind enemy lines and pushed from bottom to squeeze them!! |
| battle of chosin resevoir | outnumbered, almost lost, cold, retreated |
| ridgeway | replaced mcarthur |
| effects of korean war on japan | economy up 46% |
| effects of korean war on North Korea | did not reunite korean peninsula |
| effects of korean war on china | recognized as world powerrr |
| effects of korean war on south korea (4) | kept soverignty seoul destroyed high tension on border many casualties |
| 4 new allies for the US created in cold war | 1. israel 2. south korea 3. Taiwan 4. West Germany |
| acheson | truman's secretary of state that made that stupid line |
| who said "old soldiers never die" | mccarthur |
| 1st military commander of NATo | eisenhower |
| inchon | port city of mac's counter attack |
| what ended the korean war | an armistice |
| members of NATO | United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. |
| sites of a bomb testing | washington, tenesee, new mexico |
| where mac's attack pushed out of from up top | pusan |
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