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Post WW2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| day roosevelt died? | april 12, 1945 |
| president after FDR | henry truman |
| Idealist effort to maintain peace? | UN United nations |
| When did the UN begin? | april 25 1945 |
| 3 major agencies of the UN? | Generall assembly, security council, secitariet |
| permanent members of security council of UN? | US, USSR, Britian, france and china |
| Presidential advisor? | bernard baruch |
| war btw USA and USSR? | cold war |
| what launched the cold war? | USSR intended to spread its dominion thoughout the war and USA needed to stop them |
| Winston churhcill described the events in eastern europe as what? | iron curtain: seperating the communist east from the free west |
| Containment policy? | Truman. commmunist aggression would be resisted. |
| sucess of containment policy? | 1946 soviets withdrew their soilders from IRAN |
| Truman doctrine? | truman asking from $400 million for the protection of greece and turkey. - poilicy aided countires fighting USSR |
| Marshall plan. year? known as? | 1948. european recovery plan. |
| by 1951 how much did the USA spend on restoring western europe? | 13 billion |
| NATO? | north atlantic trade organization. USA and canada formed this. |
| what showed america's isolationism? | NATO |
| Warsaw pact? | a USSR military alliance to counteract NATO |
| east and west berlin? | E= communist. W=free |
| what did the communists do to west berlin? | cut off all trade |
| Berlin airlift? | massive airlifts of food into west berlin; forced soviets to stope blockade |
| ocupied zones of west berlin? | france usa britian |
| "year of shocks" | 1949 |
| China nationalists? civil war? | Chiang kai-sheik |
| civil war?china communists? | Mao zedong |
| year china fell to communism? | 1949 |
| 1949 soveit unions made what? | forst atomic bomb |
| H-bomb? | hydrogen bomb = USA! and USSR... |
| Where did the most serious part of the cold war happen? | korea. |
| where had korea been divided during WW2 | 38th parallel |
| Who was in charge of the UN forces in Korea? | Douglas mcarthur |
| Inchon? | macarthur used this SEAPORT and naval power to cut north korean supplies and began destroying their forces |
| who got involved int h Korean war/ | communist china. aided n korea |
| What had the korean conflict become? | stalmate |
| What was called by truman to resolve korea? result? | limited war. truce |
| who became chiief executive? followed by? | Eisenhower. John Kennedy |
| "peaceful coexistance"? | goal of USA and USSR relations |
| Indochina. who''s? | stuggle of cold war. france contolled it until japan captured it in WW2. france reclaimed it after. |
| Largest part of indochina? | Communinsts in vietnam |
| Communist leader of indochhina? | Ho Chi Minh |
| Battle of dien bien phu? | Ho chi minh defeated french in indochina |
| South vietnma's anti-communist president? | ngo dinh dien |
| Domino theory | eisenhower said if one com. nations fell, they all would |
| Fidel castro? | 1951 overthrew cuban dicator |
| castro created? | communist state of Cuba |
| Bay of pigs. date. what? | april 19, 1961. failed operation to help cuba |
| what did we find in cuba? | nucleare missles |
| Cuban missle crisis | bloackade of cuba and soviet honored it |
| Soveit leader? | krushchev |
| Kennedy's secret deal? | not to invade castro's ciba shouuwed his willingness to accomodate communists foothold in western hemi |
| Berlin wall? | august 1961; east german refugee problem soved, but failure of ommuinism as the 2nd berlin crisis of cold war ended |
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