exam 2 pt 10 Flashcards
A week before FDR dies, he meets Stalin in Germany at Yalta and talk about what to do with a divided Poland and the rebuild of Germany, and divided nation. What was this conference called?
Yalta conference
What did George Kennan associate the policy of containment with? / What is the way of the world?
Communism is like a cancer upon the world. Show the world that capitalism is the way of the world.
How did WW2 open people’s eyes? / What does USA make?
We need an organization where countries can talk and try and prevent a world war. / United Nations that is the same as Legue of nations
How does Stalin see the German people?
Stalin sees as that you must break the German people so they will never become a threat again.
How does Stalin see poland?
Stalin saw Poland wants it as the beginning of his buffer zone to protect the Soviet Union from further invasion.
What is an open pledge that we would fight communism wherever it existed through economic and military needs called?
Truman Doctrine
What does FDR manage to get stalin to do? / When does it happen?
FDR managed to get Stalin to write that he could consider Poland having free elections at some point in the future. / Poland will have their first democratic election in 1989
Who backed the Democratic Leader of China Chiang Kai Shek?
United States
Who backed the Communist Leader of Mao Zedong?
Soviet Union
What statement did Harry Truman make about USA backing Chiang Kai Shek in the proxy war? / Who is China a ally to?
That the United States was never going to let China fall to communist. This is the united states’ first Proxy War. / China is an ally to Russia
What 2 countries were on the verge of communism and the policy of containment was successfully tested on?
Turkey and Greece
What did Truman ask George Kennan to do? / What did George Kennan write?
Kennan to put together a proposal for congress on how to stop the spread of communism in Europe. / Policy of Containment
What war did the Truman Doctrine open doors for?
Vietnam war
Secretary of Treasury George C Marshal submits the Marshal Plan which is what kind of package?
Economic aid package to Europe to rebuild European economies.
United States, England, and France created Western Republic of Germany (West Germany)? true or false?
True
USA gives Europe 13 billion dollars but who gets the most of it? / What kind of manipulation was the Marshal Plan?
France and UK / Economic manipulation with ways Europe must work with USA.
What is the capital of Germany? / How did Stalin cut off people from going to west Germany?
Berlin / placing troops and tanks at the boarders. He put in place the berlin blockade.
What does US and England make to drop down supplies, food, and clothes?
berlin airlift
True or False Stalin makes East Germany? / USA makes NATO which stands for what?
True / North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Who now has a nuclear bomb? / Which country falls to communism?
Soviets / China
What is it called if any country in blue was attacked by anyone in red the other countries in blue will come to their aid?
NATO
What report is it called where US military has to be ready 24/ 7 for 41 years?
NSC-68
Congress increases the military’s budget of every branch by what percent?
800
