Cold War
Stalin refused to allow free elections.
Why did Korea and Vietnam become problematic after WWII?
No government in place
Why did decolonization demands increase after WWII?Provide TWO reasons.
Financial concerns and goals of Allies.
1956
Identify 3 problems all Western European nations had at the end of the war.
1. rebuild economies.
2. re-create their democratic institutions.
3. contend with growth of communist parties.
Scholars blamed the US for the start of the Cold War.
When and why?
1960 aggressive policy of US in Southeast Asia.
How did the Korean War end?
38th parallel and ceasefire
What role did Japan play in bringing about decolonization?
Showed European countries can be defeated.
Albania and Yugoslavia
Both had strong Communist resistance movements during WWII.
What if any impact did the Cold War have on the socialist party?
Cold War emphasized connection between the s and c party. lost support need to shift away from the end of capitalism.
"At the bottom of the [Soviet] neurotic view of world affairs is a traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity".
Provide TWO examples of Russian insecurity.
Invasion in 1812
WWI
WWII surprise attack
Geneva Convention
Who, what when and why?
France
Name one peaceful transfer of power and one violent transfer of power.
Kenya- Mau Mau violent from British or Egypt with a coup
France - Morocco and Tunisia peaceful
Algeria violent
Poland 1956
Hungary 1956
Different responses. Why?
Poland agreed to remain loyal to the Warsaw Pact and the USSR allowed Poland to follow its own path.
Hungary wished to get rid of Communism.
Charles de Gaulle image
Context?
Meaning
The Truman Doctrine - provide context and purpose.
Greek and Turkey facing communist advance. US provided military suppport.
CENTO
SEATO
NATO
Context?
spread of Communism and military alliance
Jordon, Syria, and Lebanon.
Mandates
Khrushchev and his polices.
Tried to introduce reform esp. economic more consumer goods and reduction in the role of secret police.
Adenauer
Economic miracle
context and explanation of cartoon - Step on it, doc.
Marshall Plan
Mao V Chiang
Context?
Chinese civil war
Explain the Palestinian question.
How to divide peacefully.
US response to Czechoslovakia in 1948 and Hungary 1956.
Discuss.
Short of war, nothing to do.
Clement Attlee
Significance?
Welfare state
nationalization of the bank, coal and steel industries, public transportation , and utilities,
National Insurance Act and the National Health Service Act 1946 . Est social security and national healthcare.