1. Post War Years Study 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. West Berlin was a democracy and East Berlin was communist. In 1948, the Soviet Union attempted to cut West Berlin off from any outside aid. The US and Great Britain decided to support West Berlin 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. , Castro, communist
13. Bay of Pigs, the invasion failed and Castro became closer allies with USSR
, 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. farming, industry, science, defense
Great Leap Forwarda
Cultural Revolution
Four Modernizations
Who started it?
What were the goals?
What were the results?
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. Similarities Differences 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.