USA

Question 1

Roosevelt (FDR) 1933-1945

Answer 1

1. policy of co-operation

involved in;
- yalta conference 1945 + end of WWII; FDR suspicions of Soviet military occuptation in europe

• Casablanca 1943; roosevelt and churchill buddies + origins of UN
• Cairo/Tehran conferences 1942; oppose stalin’s expansionist views
• percentages aggrements 1944
• UN establishment

Question 2

Harry S. Truman

Answer 2

(1945-53)

1. containment policies
2. nuclear weapons as political decision; communication + drops nuclear bomb in hiroshima and nagaaki (Potsdam 1945)
3. Truman doctrine
4. Marshall Plan
5. NATO
6. NSC 86

events:
-Atomic bomb + potsdam
= Iron curtain speech
-georg kennan and long telegram
-berlin blockade
-korean war
-yugoslavia krisis
-chinese civil war
-creation of e and w germany
-greek civil war
-comniform and warsaw pact creation

Question 3

Eisenhower (1953-61)

Answer 3

EISENHOWER DOCTRINE ;

0. aggresive stance
1. Rollback policies
2. New Lock
3. Domino Effect
4. Nuclear Arms Race

events

• Korean war
• stalins death
• suez crisis
• berlin crisis
• congo crisis
• belgrade conference
• non alignment
• castro taking power
• geneva accords
• vietnam civil war
• kruschnev detaliziation spech
• sputnik
• geneva summit
• guatemala war
• taiwan strait crisis
• hungarian uprising

Question 4

Kennedy (JFK)

Answer 4

(1961-63);

1. flexible response, arms race
2. “ich bin ein Berliner”
3. Peaceful co-existence/anti-nuclear warfare; reduce possbility of war

events:

• cuban missile crisis
• bay of pigs
• vienna summit
• berlin wall
• detente
• check point charlie
• vietnam
• ASSASINATION

Question 5

LB Johnson

Answer 5

(1963-1969)
policies:
1. rolling thunder in vietnam
2. vietnam failure

events:

• vietnam war
• arab-israeli war
• detente
• czechoslovakia invasion
• brezhnev doctrine

Question 6

Nixon

Answer 6

(1969-1974)
polircies
1. nixon doctrine
2. vietnaminization
3. detente- stalt I and II

events;

• vietnam war
• chile operations with salvador allende
• helinski accords
• US-China relations
• otspolitik and basic treaty
• us-france nato

Question 7

Ford

Answer 7

1974-77

• helinksy treaty
• vladilostovk accord

Question 8

Carter

Answer 8

1977-81

1. salt II; reduce arms
2. human rights issues
3. charter 77
   - china card

events;

• soviet involvement in Afghanistan
• iranian revolution
• 1979 peace agreements

Question 9

Reagan

Answer 9

1981-89
- negotiations with Gorbachev
-star wars
-SDI programme
-reagan victory school
"evil empire" "communism as disease"
-reduce arms

events:

• end of cold war with gorbachev
• chernobyl
• eastern european dissent
• reykabihik
• german reunification
• able archer scare
• geneva

Question 10

Bush

Answer 10

1989-93

• new world order
• support prestoika and boost trade
• GDR
• germany unification