ANSWER KEY PPT TRUMAN
1. FDR, Churchill and Stalin met to discuss the future of Europe after the war.
2. Churchill, Truman, and Stalin Decide how to deal with Germany and Japan
3. Iran
4. STALIN WITHDREW HIS TROOPS FROM IRAN
5. BOTH GREECE AND TURKEY FACED COMMUNIST REVOLTS IN 1947 AND ASKED THE U.S. FOR
AID TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM COMMUNIST TAKEOVERS
6. ASKED CONGRESS FOR $400 MILLION IN AID PLUS US TROOPS/ADVISORS TO HELP BOTH
GREECE AND TURKEY FIGHT BACK THE COMMUNIST THREAT
7. MUST CONTINUE TO REGARD THE SOVIET UNION AS A RIVAL, NOT A PARTNER, IN THE
POLITICAL ARENA.
8. Containment
9. HE WAS UPSET THAT THE USSR WAS TAKING OVER EASTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS AND
IMPOSING COMMUNIST GOVERNMENTS
10. Winston Churchill
11. Soviet
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13. Yugoslavia
14. U.S. Secretary of State
15. PLAN FOR THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY OF EUROPE
16. Hunger, poverty, desperation, chaos
17. MODERNIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT
CREATION OF SOUND CURRENCIES AND NATIONAL BUDGETS
EXPANSION OF TRADE AND INCREASE IN EXPORTS
INCREASED ECONOMIC COOPERATION AMONG EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
REMOVAL OF QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS IN FOREIGN TRADE
INCREASE IN PRODUCTION ESPECIALLY IN AGRICULTURE AND ENERGY INDUSTRY
IMPROVEMENT IN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
18. Answers vary
19. WESTERN EUROPE’S RECOVERY FROM THE DEVASTATION OF WW II
20. taken over by the Communist Party
21. Berlin
22. WAS DIVIDED INTO FOUR ZONES: USSR, FRENCH, BRITISH AND AMERICAN. THE THREE
ALLIES UNITED THEIR ZONES INTO ONE THAT WAS KNOWN AS WEST BERLIN. WEST BERLIN WAS
DEEP INSIDE THE COMMUNIST CONTROLLED PART OF GERMANY
23. 1949 SAW THE FORMAL ESTABLISHMENT OF TWO GERMAN NATIONS COMMONLY KNOWN AS
EAST AND WEST GERMANY. EAST GERMANY WAS RULED BY THE USSR WHILE WEST GERMANY
WAS INDEPENDENT
24. THE USSR IMPOSED A COMPLETE BLOCKADE ON RAILWAY, ROAD AND CANAL TRAFFIC
LEADING TO WEST BERLIN FROM THE ALLIED GERMAN ZONE. NO SUPPLIES OF ANY TYPE,
INCLUDING FOOD, FUEL AND CONSUMER GOODS, WERE ALLOWED TO ENTER WEST BERLIN.
25. STALIN'S DESIRE TO CONTROL ALL OF BERLIN
THE ALLIES LONDON PROGRAM OF 1948 THAT CALLED FOR A SEPARATE WEST GERMANY AND
CURRENCY REFORM.
26. Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic
27. THE AIRLIFT WOULD BE USED FOR KEEPING THE CITY SUPPLIED WITH FOOD, FUEL AND
CONSUMER GOODS
28. JUNE 1948 TO MAY 1949
29. IF ONE CARGO PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN IT WOULD MEAN WAR BETWEEN THE US AND USSR
30. ISRAEL DECLARED ITS INDEPENDENCE
31. FIVE ARAB STATES IMMEDIATELY INVADED WITH THE GOAL OF DESTROYING THE NEWLY
CREATED JEWISH STATE. THEY WERE DEFEATED BY ISRAEL.
32. "I DECLARE A HOLY WAR, MY MOSLEM BROTHERS! MURDER THE JEWS! MURDER THEM ALL!"
33. 500,000 ARABS FLED ISRAEL AND MANY REMAIN REFUGEES TODAY HOPING TO RETURN TO
THEIR FORMER HOMES. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT AS MANY AS 800,000 JEWS WERE FORCED TO
LEAVE ARAB COUNTRIES DURING THE 1940’S AND 50’S. MOST OF THESE REFUGEES WERE
ABSORBED INTO ISRAEL.
34. THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH KOREA WITH ITS CAPITOL IN SEOUL IS FOUNDED
ONE MONTH LATER THE COMMUNIST KOREAN PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC IS FOUNDED WITH
ITS CAPITOL IN PYONGYANG
35. SECRETARY OF STATE IN 1949 UNDER HARRY TRUMAN. IN THAT POST, HE DEVELOPED A
POLICY TO CONTAIN COMMUNIST EXPANSION BY FUNNELING ECONOMIC AND MILITARY AID TO
DEMOCRATIC NATIONS, AND BY HELPING TO ESTABLISH THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY
ORGANIZATION (NATO).
36. "AN ARMED ATTACK AGAINST ONE OR MORE OF THEM IN EUROPE OR NORTH AMERICA SHALL
BE CONSIDERED AN ATTACK AGAINST THEM ALL."
37. NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
38. Dwight Eisenhower
39. COMMUNIST LEADER OF CHINA
40. OCTOBER 1ST 1949 THE COMMUNISTS WON THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR AND THE PEOPLE’S
REPUBLIC OF CHINA IS ESTABLISHED WITH THE USSR AS ITS MAIN ALLY
41. USSR, China
42. CHIANG KAI SHEK LEADER OF NATIONALIST CHINA WAS FORCED TO FLEE TO THE ISLAND OF
TAIWAN TO ESCAPE THE COMMUNISTS
43. THIS CREATED A BILATERAL DEFENSE COMMITMENT AND SETTLED BOUNDARY ISSUES. THE
USSR ALSO AGREED TO PROVIDE LIMITED AID TO CHINA. They did not like it because the two
great Communist nations were now allies against us.
44. They were our enemies and could use it against us
45. AUGUST 26: KOREA: UNITED STATES ANNOUNCES ITS INTENTION TO OCCUPY JAPANESEHELD KOREA SOUTH OF THE 38TH PARALLEL; SOVIET UNION TO OCCUPY THE NORTH.
SEPTEMBER 2: VIETNAM: HO CHI MINH'S TROOPS SEIZE POWER IN HANOI AND PROCLAIM AN
INDEPENDENT VIETNAM.
SEPTEMBER 22: VIETNAM: FRENCH FORCES RETURN TO VIETNAM.
NOVEMBER 5: HUNGARIAN ELECTION: COMMUNIST PARTY WINS ONLY 17 PERCENT OF THE VOTE.
STALIN MOVES TO ERADICATE OPPOSITION AND TO CONSOLIDATE THE SOVIET POSITION IN
HUNGARY.
NOVEMBER 29: YUGOSLAVIA BECOMES A FEDERATED REPUBLIC UNDER MARSHAL TITO
46. VIET MINH FORCES CLASH WITH FRENCH FORCES IN BEGINNING OF 8-YEAR FRENCH
INDOCHINA WAR.
47. CONTAINMENT POLICY: GEORGE F. KENNAN, WRITING ANONYMOUSLY IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
ARTICULATES AMERICA'S POLICY TO BLOCK PEACEFULLY THE EXPANSION OF SOVIET POLITICAL
AND ECONOMIC INFLUENCE INTO VULNERABLE AREAS AROUND THE WORLD.
48. An order desegregating the armed forces
49. PRESIDENT TRUMAN APPROVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HYDROGEN BOMB. THIS NEW
TYPE OF NUCLEAR WEAPON IS AT LEAST 100 TIMES MORE POWERFUL THEN THE ATOMIC BOMBS
DROPPED ON JAPAN IN 1945.
50. THE COMMUNIST NORTH KOREANS PUSHED THE SOUTH KOREAN AND UNPREPARED US
ARMIES ALL THE WAY TO PUSAN IN THE SOUTH WHERE THEY WERE FINALLY STOPPED BY US
51. WAS PUT IN OVERALL COMMAND OF UNITED NATIONS FORCES
52. INVASION AT INCHON WHICH THREATENED TO TRAP ALL THE NORTH KOREAN FORCES
FIGHTING NEAR THE PUSAN PERIMETER
53. CHINESE COMMUNISTS TROOPS INVADED NORTH KOREA AND PUSHED THE UN ARMIES BACK
SOUTH OF THE 38TH PARALLEL
54. Dividing line between North and South Korea
55. TURNED INTO A STALEMATE RESEMBLING WORLD WAR I TRENCH WARFARE
56. TO GO TO KOREA AND END THE WAR.
57. Secretary of State under Eisenhower
58. "THE ABILITY TO GET TO THE VERGE WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE WAR IS THE NECESSARY
ART
59. INTENSIFYING THE COLD WAR AND DAMAGING RELATIONS WITH NEUTRAL AS WELL AS
COMMUNIST NATIONS
60. . JOSEPH STALIN THE COMMUNIST DICTATOR OF THE SOVIET UNION DIED. AFTER THIS THE
KOREAN PEACE NEGOIATIONS TOOK A MORE POSITIVE TURN.
61. ON JULY 27TH 1953, AFTER THREE YEARS OF FIGHTING, AN ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED ENDING
THE KOREAN WAR. KOREA REMAINED DIVIDED AT THE 38TH PARALLEL.
62. LEADER OF THE COMMUNIST VIETNAMESE
63. WHEN FRENCH SOLDIERS RETURNED TO REASSERT THEIR AUTHORITY AND RECLAIM THEIR
COLONY A BITTER NINE YEAR WAR BEGAN THAT ENDED IN A FRENCH DEFEAT
64. DIVIDED VIETNAM INTO TWO HALVES. ONE, THE NORTH, BECAME COMMUNIST, WHILE THE
SOUTH WAS UNDER US INFLUENCE.
65. SOUTH VIETNAM'S PRESIDENT
66. DIVIDING VIETNAM AT THE 17TH PARALLEL FOR TWO YEARS UNTIL ELECTIONS COULD BE
HELD TO UNIFY THE NATION.
THE NORTH BECAME COMMUNIST WHILE THE SOUTH WAS SUPPORTED BY THE US.
67. FORMED BY THE USSR TO COUNTER NATO IN EUROPE
68. NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
69. “We will bury you”
70. Hungary and Poland, the revolts were crushed by Russian tanks
71. BRITAIN AND FRANCE FEARED THAT HE MIGHT CLOSE THE VITAL CANAL ENTIRELY
72. UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE US
73. THE BALANCE OF POWER SHIFTED AWAY FROM BRITAIN AND FRANCE TOWARD THE TWO NEW
SUPER POWERS, THE US AND USSR
74. INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES. THESE WERE NUCLEAR BOMBS CARRYING
MISSILES WITH RANGES OF OVER FIVE THOUSAND MILES. NO PLACE ON EARTH WAS SAFE FROM
NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION.
75. THE SPACE AGE BEGINS AS RUSSIA LAUNCHES SPUTNIK, THE FIRST ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE TO
ORBIT THE EARTH. AMERICANS WERE SHOCKED THAT THE SOVIETS WERE THE FIRST INTO SPACE
76. JANUARY OF 1958
77. ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS
78. REVOLUTION IN CUBA SUCCESSFULLY OVERTHREW THE GOVERNMENT. ON JANUARY 6TH
FIDEL CASTRO BECAME PREMIER AND LATER COMMUNIST DICTATOR OF CUBA. MANY CUBANS
FLEE TO THE US
79. CASTRO STARTED BRINGING CUBA CLOSER TO THE COMMUNIST USSR
80. Soviet Union
81. He was a communist who allied himself with the USSR
82. RECONNAISSANCE (SPY) PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN OVER THE SOVIET UNION AND ITS PILOT
GARY POWERS CAPTURED AND PUT ON TRIAL. KHRUSHCHEV USED THIS INCIDENT TO CANCEL A
PLANNED EAST-WEST SUMMIT CONFERENCE IN PARIS.
83. A PLANED INVASION OF CUBA FROM THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION
84. Businesses taken over by a government without compensation
85. An enemy of the U.S.
86. A U.S. back invasion of Cuba using Cuban exiles was a failure with all the attackers either killed
or captured.
87. KHRUSHCHEV THREATENS JFK WITH AN ULTIMATUM ON BERLIN. JFK RESPONDS WITH A US
MILITARY BUILD-UP AND A US CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAM
88. ON AUGUST 13th EAST GERMANY BEGINS PREPARING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
BERLIN WALL AND ON SEPTEMBER 1 THE USSR RESUMES ATMOSPHERIC TESTING OF NUCLEAR
WEAPONS
89. TO SHOW U.S. DETERMINATION TO KEEP BERLIN FREE
90. Cuban missile crisis
91. THE RUSSIANS WERE INSTALLING NUCLEAR MISSILES IN CUBA AIMED AT THE U.S
92. EACH ONE OF THE RUSSIAN MISSILES IN CUBA HAD THE EXPLOSIVE POWER OF 50
HIROSHIMA TYPE ATOMIC BOMBS
93. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT Mc NAMARA, SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN RUSK AND JFK,
THE MAIN POLICY MAKERS DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS ALONG WITH ROBERT KENNEDY.
94. A NAVAL BLOCKADE AND STOP SOVIET SHIPS FROM BRINGING IN MISSILES AND OTHER
EQUIPMENT.
95. KHRUSHCHEV GAVE IN TO US PRESSURE AND REMOVED SOVIET MISSILES FROM CUBA FOR A
US PROMISE NOT TO INVADE CUBA.
96. Getting involved in Vietnam
97. PRESIDENT of the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
98. HE WAS ACORRUPT CATHOLIC, and the MAJORITY OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE WERE
BUDDHIST.
99. THE IDEA THAT COUNTRIES BORDERING COMMUNIST COUNTRIES WERE IN MORE DANGER OF
FALLING TO COMMUNISM UNLESS THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER WESTERN NATIONS WORKED
TO PREVENT IT.
100. IT WAS CONTROLLED BY FORMER COMMUNIST VIETMINH CADRES WHO HAD FOUGHT
AGAINST THE FRENCH. THE NLF WAS ULTIMATELY CONTROLLED BY THE NORTH VIETNAMESE.
101. VIETNAMESE PEASANTS WERE FORCED TO BUILD AND MOVE FORTIFIED VILLAGES TO
PREVENT CONTACT WITH COMMUNIST VIETCONG GUERRILLAS. 6800 WERE BUILT BY 1963. THEY
WERE UNPOPULAR WITH THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE
102. THESE WERE EQUIPPED WITH THOUSANDS OF RIFLES AND MACHINE GUNS MOST OF WHICH
ENDED UP IN THE HANDS OF THE VC TO BE USED AGAINST THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE AND
AMERICANS
103. THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE ARMY WOULD NOT FIGHT SO WAS IT WORTH THE LIVES OF
AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO DEFEND THEIR NATION WHEN THEY THEMSELVES WOULDN’T?
104. INCREASED THE NUMBER OF MILITARY ADVISORS FROM 800 TO 16,000 AND FORMED THE
GREEN BERETS SPECIAL FORCES. SUPPORTED AN ARMY COUP THAT KILLED DIEM
105. MONKS SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE TO PROTEST THE BRUTAL DIEM REGIME