End of WWII
The two countries which suffered the heaviest losses during WWII.
What are China and Russia?
This intergovernmental organization was established on 26 June 1945 with the articulated mission of maintaining international peace and security.
What is the UN?
This 1947 U.S. policy promised economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Before the 19th century, China was often considered the world’s largest economic power and is credited with creating these two inventions.
What are paper and compass?
This Vietnamese nationalist and communist leader declared independence from France in 1945 and later led North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The range of the total number of people killed during WWII.
What is 50-70 million?
44 Allied nations met here in July 1944 to create a stable monetary and financial system for the post-war era and prevent another Great Depression.
Where is Bretton Woods, New Hampshire?
This American economic program offered billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn European nations after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This long-running internal conflict between Nationalists and Communists ended in 1949 with the Communists in control of mainland China.
What is the Chinese Civil War?
This war (1950–1953) began when communist forces crossed the 38th parallel, drawing in the United States and China.
What is the Korean War?
The percentage of the world's Jewish population which was massacred during WWII.
What is 40%?
These are the three institutions which were created by the Bretton Woods system/conference.
What are the IMF, the World Bank and GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/WTO.
This Allied conference held in February 1945 divided postwar Germany and agreed on free elections in Eastern Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This Nationalist leader fled to Taiwan after losing the Chinese Civil War to Mao Zedong’s forces.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
This North Korean leader ordered the invasion of South Korea in 1950, triggering the Korean War.
Who is Kim Il-sung?
This city lost half of its habitable spaces.
What is Berlin?
These are the five permanent members of the security council.
What are the USA, USSR, China, UK and France?
This 1948–1949 Soviet action attempted to force the Western Allies out of Germany’s capital by cutting off land access.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Launched in 1958, this Mao-led campaign attempted rapid industrialization and collectivization, resulting in widespread famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This 1955 conference promoted decolonization and nonalignment, bringing together leaders from Africa and Asia outside the U.S.–Soviet blocs.
What is the Bandung Conference?
These trials were held from May 1946-November 1948, in order to try generals for war crimes.
What were the Tokyo Trials?
This is the year in which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN.
When is 1948?
This 1945 conference exposed growing disagreements over Germany’s future and reparations between Truman and Stalin.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
This split in the late 1950s and 1960s revealed deep ideological and political tensions between China and the Soviet Union.
What is the Sino-Soviet Split?
This 1954 conflict ended French colonial rule in Indochina after a decisive communist victory at Dien Bien Phu.
What is the First Indochina War?