Aftermath of World War II and beginning of the Cold War

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List two provisions of the new Japanese constitution put in place after Worls war 2

A democratic government, greatly reduced the military, guaranteed basic right and freedoms (women got more rights)

Soviet union established a series of communist satellite nations in Europe following world war 2. what is a satellite nation?

An independent nation under the control of the more powerful nation.

What was the U2 incident

And United States by plane shot down by Soviets

How did the US supply West Berlin in 1948-1949 when the Soviets blocked road and railway transport to the city?

Berlin aircraft

Why was the UN largely ineffective in dealing with Cold War problems?

Both sides were in the Big five so they could veto each others resolutions

What is a disadvantage of using massive retaliation as primary military Strategy

Both sides will be destroyed

Government does not get involved in buisness

Capitalism

The economic system in which emphasizes private ownership of industry and competition is

Capitalism

In the Korean War North Korea was supported by who

China

This term refers to government by one or a few that excerpts nerely total control over many aspects of people's lives

Communism

The term for the primary US strategy during the Cold War, that of using study pressure to prevent the Soviet Union communism for me spending is known as

Containment

What are the two main goals of United Nations

Create lasting world peace, raise standards of living throughout the world

Who was the US general in charge of the occupation of japan

Douglas MacArthur

How did the US foreign-policy change under the Eisenhower administration

Eisenhower spent more money on nuclear weapons instead of troops

Lost the five permanent countries on the United Nations security council

France, United Kingdom, United States, Russia, and people's republic of china

What does collectivism mean

Giving a group priority over each individual in it

What two countries received the most aid under the Marshall plan

Greece and turkey

What was the term used by Winston Churchhill to describe the separation between free Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe?

Iron curtian

3 severe problems Western Europe faced in the years following WWII

Lost power, communism was spreading, the US doesn't support them anymore

Describe MacArthur staring plan for turning the tide in the Korean War

MacArther believed he had attack turn it in order to defeat North Korea, against trumans orders

The US plan to provide economic aid to European nations following World War II was known as the

Marshall plan

The military alliance formed by the western free nations following World war 2 was know as

North Atlantic treaty organization (NATO)

What event began the Korean war

North Korea invaded South Korea

List 3 communist satellite nations

Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, east Germany

President Truman fired General MacArthur during the Korean War for insubordination after MacArthur argued too

Push further north toward china

Business run by government (taxes pay for government jobs)

Socialism

Describes the Hungarian uprising of 1956

Soviets crushed the uprise by killing the Hungarians

Why did the Americans panic about Sputnik

Soviets were expanding faster than us

What was sputnik

Spacecraft sent to space by Soviet Union

How did the Korean War end?

Stalemate at the 38th parallel

Why is the Korean were referred to as sometimes the forgotten war?

The Korean words between two major wars so it's kind forgotten

What are two reasons why the Soviet Union distrusted the US after WWII?

The US delayed entering WW2, US declared invasion of Western Europe

Describe the role of the Japanese emperor following world war 2

The emperor became a figure head (still emperor, no power)

Why did the Soviet Union choose not to hold free elections in the countries it occupied during WWII

They did not want to give people power

What was the geographic problem faced by free West Berlin throughout the Cold War?

They were in communist territory

Mutually assured destruction

Threatening to use force in response to aggression

The idea that the US should support "free people who resist subjugation by outside pressures" was known as the

Truman doctrine

Two ways that the wartime experiences of the US and Soviet union greatly different?

United States were capitalists (education etc.), soviet was a dictatorship

In the Korean War South Korea was supported by who

United nations

Who provided to troops to South Korea during the Korean War

United states

Name and explain the special power the big five nations have in the UN

Veto power, if any "big five" vetos, no action can be taken further in the UN

NATO's communist counterpart in Eastern Europe was the

Warsaw pact

In what ways was Yugoslavia different from the other Eastern European communist countries,

Wasn't controlled by Soviet Union


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