Post War Post War YearsYears

Study Guide- Study Guide- answersanswers

1. Stalin wanted a “buffer” to stop any invasions.

Iron Curtain Cut off trade and communication

2. Economic aid from the U.S. to help rebuild Europe after World War 2

3. No- Italy and Germany received aid too

4. trading partners market for American goods

stable democracies

5. Soviet controlled east became communist West Germany became a democracy

6. The City of Berlin was also divided. West Berlin was a democracy and East Berlin was communist. In 1948, the Soviet Union attempted to cut West Berlin off from any outside aid. The US and Great Britain decided to support West Berlin by airlifting supplies and fuel for 18 months.

7. to keep East Germans from escaping to West Germany.

• 8. The US would supply aid and assistance to any country that was in danger of turning communist.

Warsaw Pact Countries & NATO

• 9. Democracy and CommunismDemocracy- power belongs to the

peopleCommunism- economy controlled by

the government

10. 1957, Sputnik, satellite in space

the U.S. was behind in the race a race to have men and

satellites in space

• 11.Yuri Gagarin- 1st man in spaceNeil Armstrong- 1st man to walk on

Moon

12. 1959, Castro, communist13. Bay of Pigs, the invasion failed and Castro became closer allies with USSR

14. 1962, nuclear missiles, Kennedy, Khrushchev, the Soviets pulled the missiles out of Cuba.

15. Japanese

16. Communists, Nationalists

17. Communists, Nationalists, Taiwan

18. Mao Zedong, peasants, to defeat the wealthy and make everyone equal

Great Leap Forwarda Cultural Revolution Four Modernizations

Who started it?

What were the goals?

What were the results?

Who started it?

What were the goals?

What were the results?

Who started it?

What were the goals?

What were the results?

Mao Zedong

Increase farming and factory production

•people did not want to live on communes• many starved,• products like steel were of poor quality

Mao Zedong

To break ties to the past to re-energize the Communist Revolt

•thousands killed,•families torn apart•Professors & doctors arrested•China left in turmoil

Deng Xiaoping

modernize China’s : farming, industry, science, defense

•allowed more free enterprise• turned China’s economy around

19. Free Enterprise System, foreign companies could set up

business private citizens could start

businesses

20. Soviet Union United States 38th parallel

• 21. North Korea invaded South Korea to unit them under communist rule.

22. U.S. and U.N.23. Truman24. They did not like the U.S. army fighting on their border and felt threatened.

25 Eisenhower26. It is the border between North and south Korea where no weapons area allowed. But there are more than 1 million troops patrolling the region.

Similarities Differences

SK-Democratic GovernmentNK- Dictatorship

SK- free market economy NK- Communist

SK- one of the strongest economies in Asia

NK- One of the poorest countries in the world

Culture

History

Language

Traditions

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28. It has created very tense and unstable relations and North Korea has become more isolated.

29. South Vietnam, it was not communist

30. Domino Theory31. Ho Chi Minh32. Johnson, USS Maddox was torpedoed by North Vietnam

33. Cambodia & Laos, bombing, Ho Chi Minh Trail34. Viet Cong35. American were divided. Some

wanted to end the conflict and bring the troops home. Others wanted to support the troops.

36. Nixon37. North Vietnam invaded South

Vietnam and united the country under a communist government.