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Post War Years Study Guide- answers

Post War Years Study Guide- answers. 1. Stalin wanted a “buffer” to stop any invasions. Iron Curtain Cut off trade and communication 2. Economic aid from the U.S. to help rebuild Europe after World War 2 3. No- Italy and Germany received aid too. 4. trading partners

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Post War Years Study Guide- answers

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  1. Post War YearsStudy Guide- answers

  2. 1. Stalin wanted a “buffer” to stop any invasions. Iron Curtain Cut off trade and communication • 2. Economic aid from the U.S. to help rebuild Europe after World War 2 • 3. No- Italy and Germany received aid too

  3. 4. trading partners market for American goods stable democracies 5. Soviet controlled east became communist West Germany became a democracy 6. The City of Berlin was also divided. WestBerlin was a democracy and EastBerlin was communist. In 1948, the Soviet Union attempted to cut WestBerlin off from any outside aid. The US and Great Britain decided to support WestBerlin by airlifting supplies and fuel for 18 months.

  4. 7. to keep East Germans from escaping to West Germany. • 8. The US would supply aid and assistance to any country that was in danger of turning communist. Warsaw Pact Countries & NATO • 9. Democracy and Communism Democracy- power belongs to the people Communism- economy controlled by the government

  5. 10. 1957, Sputnik, satellite in space the U.S. was behind in the race a race to have men and satellites in space • 11. Yuri Gagarin- 1st man in space Neil Armstrong- 1st man to walk on Moon

  6. 12. 1959, Castro, communist • 13. Bay of Pigs, the invasion failed and Castro became closer allies with USSR • 14. 1962, nuclear missiles, Kennedy, Khrushchev, the Soviets pulled the missiles out of Cuba. • 15. Japanese

  7. 16. Communists, Nationalists • 17. Communists, Nationalists, Taiwan • 18. Mao Zedong, peasants, to defeat the wealthy and make everyone equal

  8. Deng Xiaoping • modernize China’s : • farming, industry, science, defense • allowed more free enterprise • turned China’s economy around • Mao Zedong • Increase farming and factory production • people did not want to live on communes • many starved, • products like steel were of poor quality • Mao Zedong • To break ties to the past • to re-energize the Communist Revolt • thousands killed, • families torn apart • Professors & doctors arrested • China left in turmoil

  9. 19. Free Enterprise System, foreign companies could set up business private citizens could start businesses • 20. Soviet Union United States 38th parallel • 21. North Korea invaded South Korea to unit them under communist rule.

  10. 22. U.S. and U.N. • 23. Truman • 24. They did not like the U.S. army fighting on their border and felt threatened. • 25 Eisenhower • 26. It is the border between North and south Korea where no weapons area allowed. But there are more than 1 million troops patrolling the region.

  11. 27. Culture History Language Traditions SK-Democratic Government NK- Dictatorship SK- free market economy NK- Communist SK- one of the strongest economies in Asia NK- One of the poorest countries in the world

  12. 28. It has created very tense and unstable relations and North Korea has become more isolated. • 29. South Vietnam, it was not communist • 30. Domino Theory • 31. Ho Chi Minh • 32. Johnson, USS Maddox was torpedoed by North Vietnam

  13. 33. Cambodia & Laos, bombing, Ho Chi Minh Trail • 34. Viet Cong • 35. American were divided. Some wanted to end the conflict and bring the troops home. Others wanted to support the troops. • 36. Nixon • 37. North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam and united the country under a communist government.

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