New Political/Economic Institutions
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?
The post-war housing crisis led to the increased prevalence of this illegal way of living.
What is squatting?
This event marked a decisive rejection of laissez-faire politics and brought a Labour government committed to social democracy to power.
What is the 1945 General Election?
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?
Approximately __% of British homes had been destroyed during the war.
What is 25%?
This 1942 report laid the foundations of the post-war welfare state by identifying five “Giant Evils” facing British society.
What is the Beveridge Report?
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?
The Ministry of Health estimated that about ____ houses would need to be built
What is 750,000?
Introduced in 1948, this institution became the most enduring symbol of Labour’s commitment to welfarism and social justice.
What is the National Health Service (NHS)?
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 post-war housing solution, made from factory-produced components, was introduced to tackle Britain’s severe housing shortage after 1945.
What are pre-fabricated houses (pre-fabs)?
This phrase captured Labour’s idealistic vision of a more equal post-war society free from social injustice.
What is the “New Jerusalem”?
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?
Agreed in 1946, this American loan was intended to support Britain’s post-war recovery but tied the country to debt repayment and the convertibility of sterling.
What is the Anglo-American Loan (of 1946)?
Britain’s hesitant response to this early European organisation highlighted its uncertainty about its post-war role in Europe.
What is the European Coal and Steel Community?