Truman: Foreign Policy

Question 1

Yalta conference?

Answer 1

1945:
Agreed to split Germany into 4 zones
Stalin distrusted the west

Question 2

Potsdam conference?

Answer 2

1945: 
After war
Zones was created 
BUT the atomic bomb created distrust
Russia allowed to take 10% reparations

Question 3

Truman doctrine?

Answer 3

1947

£400million for assistance to Greece and turkey - to stop communism

Question 4

Marshall plan?

Answer 4

1948

£17billion given to European countries for stability- after the fall of Czechoslovakia

Question 5

Ncs-68

Answer 5

Raised defence bill from 13-50

Question 6

Berlin airlift?
How long?
How many people?
How many flights?

Answer 6

1948
Allies were cut off for "technical difficulties" reason
USA aided
Helped 2.5 million people
Over 275k flights
324 days

Question 7

What was Nato? When formed?

Answer 7

1949

Agreed to provide aid if attacked

Question 8

What happened in Japan?

Answer 8

After 1945 bomb, USA troops entered
Took control from 1949-1952
Banned communists
Made democratic

Question 9

Communist China?

Answer 9

USA stopped supporting the Chinese nationalists
Limited financial&‘military aid - communist China
1949 Mao Zedong declared China communist

Question 10

Indo China?

Answer 10

Ho Chi Minh formed the indo Chinese communist party to fight for independence in 1930

Truman provided French aid- covered 78% of the cost

Wanted to stop communist spreading

Question 11

Korean War?

What were the results?

Answer 11

North Korea: Kim il sung in 1948

100k n Koreans invaded south on 25 June 1950: little opposition

A us lead UN intervention: pushed back up to the 38th parallel

• cost 14% of the us gdp
• 138k dead
• approval rating 22%

Question 12

What happened in Japan?
How many troops went into Japan? Who led it? What orders did they have? What government changes occurred? What issue with China affected Japan?

Answer 12

They surrounded after the second atomic bomb.
350k us troops went into Japan.
Douglas MacArthur led it
Given power to transform Japan into a democracy
Banned communists from government. Renounced war.
But with Mao Zedongs victory, Japan was useful and USA feared communism.

Question 13

China and communism?

Answer 13

Jiang Jeshi and nationalists fled China with money.

October 1949 map Zedong proclaimed China communist

Question 14

Indo China??

Answer 14

Indo Chinese communist party formed in 1930 by Ho Chi Minh to fight for independence from France.
USA backed France and covered 78% of the costs.

Question 15

Korean War?

Answer 15

From 1950-1953
Cost 14% of us gdp
138k were dead and injured
Only 22% approval rating