Foreign Policy Cold War Success (1945-1980)

Question 1

(1946)-Truman Doctrine

Answer 1

Interventionism To Continued Interventionism

Question 2

(1948) -Marshall Plan
- Rebuild Economy of Western Europe
- Not Directly Related

Answer 2

Suc

Question 3

(1948 –1949)-Berlin Blockade

• USSR Blocked Supplies
• US Led Berlin Airlift

Answer 3

Mix

Question 4

(After 1948)-Overreaction to the threat from China Due to McCarthyism? Mao Justified It?

Answer 4

Mix

Question 5

(1927-1947-1961)-Chinese Civil War

• Communist Won Against National Party
• Eventually Nixon-Kissinger policy towards China was a remarkable transformation of policy

Answer 5

Fai

Question 6

(1950-1953)-Korean War

• Initial Failure As Didn’t Raise Decisive Extra Troops-Confusion with American Public
• Stopped Spread of Communism South
• US Threatened China with Nuclear Weapons
• US Troops remained Scaring China
• Qualified Success As creation of South Korea and its continuing economic success

Answer 6

Suc

Question 7

(1954)-Failure of the Geneva conference and the role of John Foster Dulles, Staunch Anti-Communist

Answer 7

Fai

Question 8

(1958)-Continuing confrontations with China over Quemoy and Matsu

Answer 8

Mix

Question 9

(1961)-Berlin Wall-JFK-I Am a Berliner

Answer 9

Mix

Question 10

(1962) -Cuban Missile Crisis-Bay of Pigs
- Embarrassment for Kennedy, Exercised Brinkmanship, Kennedy ‘Won’ But Had to Move Missiles from Turkey
- But created Hotline and Nuclear test Ban Treaty and Non-Proliferation Agreement

Answer 10

Mix

Question 11

(1955-1975)-Vietnam War

• But hole from France Needed to Be Filled as Domino Theory Supports
• Gulf of Tonkin
• Kent State Anti-War Protest-Killed
• Paris Peace Accords
• Loss of Life and Waste of Money
• Vietnam Lost
• Nearby Liao And Cambodia Lost
• Nicaraguan Revolution-Fell to Communism
• Colossal Failure

Answer 11

Fai