Western Policies

Question 1

Potsdam

Answer 1

Atomic bomb on Japan

Question 2

Kennan’s Long Telegram

Answer 2

1946
Armed build up
Containment

Question 3

1949

Answer 3

Defensive perimeter strategy

Question 4

1950

Answer 4

NSC-68

Question 5

China

Answer 5

Nationalists (KMD) led by Chaing Kai shek(Jiang Jeshi)

Unpopular and corrupt

Question 6

Chinese communists

Answer 6

Mao Zedong

Nationalist appeal

Question 7

1949

Answer 7

Chinese communists won

1.3 mil nationalists flee to Taiwan

Question 8

Taiwan

Answer 8

U.S. support

7th fleet in Taiwanese strait crisis 1954 + 1958

Question 9

1950s

Answer 9

Sino-soviet alliance

Monolithic bloc

Question 10

1960s

Answer 10

Sino-soviet split
Soviet criticism of the GLF and cultural revolution
China atomic bomb
Sino-Indian and sino-soviet border wars

Question 11

Malayan emergency 1948-1960

Answer 11

British colony
Civil war between Malays and Chinese communists - led by chin Peng
Classed as 2nd class citizens - 2 mil in Malaya 1948
Guerrilla campaign - attacked gov, British soldiers, rubber planters and tin mine owners
Fortified villages- surveillance and improved health care and education
Cost Britain $500 mil a year
Communists 1955 - struggling with the harsh conditions, limited support, opposition, limited resources

Question 12

Yalta

Answer 12

Feb 1945

Russian help = territories