Model States NA

Question 1

How well politically did the US achieve its aims in Japan?

Answer 1

• April 1946, free elections + women vote = democracy.
• E. Hirohito –> Constitutional monarch, purely figurehead with no political influence.
• February 1946, the US wrote constitution for Japan.

Question 2

How well did the US achieve its economic aims in Japan?

Answer 2

• SCAP tried to break up the 83 zaibatsu companies.
• Power of the Japanese landowning elite radically decreased in 1946.
• US had to send Japan $1 billion to ensure economic activity.

Question 3

How well did the US achieve its social aims in Japan?

Answer 3

• Secret Police = Abolished
• Discrimination forbidden + marriage required mutual consent.
• New American education system.

Question 4

How well did the US achieve its aims militarily in Japan?

Answer 4

• No longer huge military power -> Pacifism.
• 250,000 former military officers in gov. power = purged.
• USA bases in Japan, e.g. Okinawa.

Question 5

How well did the US achieve its political aims in Phillippines?

Answer 5

• Roxas 1946 –>New President, democratically voted for.
• Only 54% of population voted from Roxas- fair?
• Roxas deprived 11 opposition members of seats to stop opposing votes- 6 belonged to the Democratic Alliance of the Huks.

Question 6

How well did the US achieve its economic aims in Phillippines?

Answer 6

• Phillippine Trade 1946:
  only US goods
  Filipino couldn’t tell products competing w/ USA
  US owned forests + mines
• Truman adminisration gave Roxas $7.2 million in military aid to combat the Communist Huks.

Question 7

How well did the US achieve its social aims in Phillippines?

Answer 7

• Police brutality + corruption = common
• Filipino society became Americanised, e.g. canned fruits.
• Those in power = corrupt

Question 8

How well did the US achieve its aims militarily in Phillippines?

Answer 8

• US owned 22 military bases with 99 yr leases, e.g. Clark Field + Subic bay.
• Phillippines remained generally pro-American