Date: 10/3/13

1
Welcome to Contemporary U.S. and World History

• Date 10/3/13
• Activity Review Challenge
• Warm Up
• NONE
• Homework
• Test Tomorrow 10/4

Pg Assignment Date
15 Truman Doctrine Rdg 9/30
16 Truman Doctrine Questions 9/30
17 Rebuilding Western Europe 9/30
18 Rebuilding Graphs/Charts 9/30
19 Unit 1 Review 9/30
20 Japanese Occupation Rdg 10/1
21 Japanese Occupation Notes 10/1
22 Like Music To our Ears 10/1
23 Berlin Crisis Qs, cartoon photo 10/1
2
Unit 1 Review

• The economic system which emphasizes private
  ownership of industry and competition is
• Capitalism
• The form of government by one or a few that
  exerts nearly total control over many aspects of
  peoples lives is
• Totalitarianism

3
Unit 1 Review

• People working together to benefit the whole
• Collectivism
• Government by the people through voting
• Democracy

4
Unit 1 Review

• People working on their own to reach their
  highest level of achievement also benefit
  society
• Individualism
• Government ownership of industry, with the goal
  of a classless society
• Socialism

5
Unit 1 Review

• What was the term Winston Churchill used to
  describe the separation between free Western
  Europe and Communist Eastern Germany?
• Iron Curtain.
• The idea that the US should support free peoples
  who resist subjugation by outside pressures was
  known as the
• Truman Doctrine

6
Unit 1 Review

• The Truman Doctrine provided economic aid to what
  two countries?
• Greece and Turkey.
• The U.S. plan to provide economic aid to European
  nations following WWII was known as the
• Marshall Plan
• DOUBLE POINTS The real name for this was
• European Recovery Program

7
Unit 1 Review

• What two countries received the most aid under
  the Marshall Plan?
• Great Britain and France
• The term for the primary US strategy during the
  Cold War, that of using steady pressure to
  prevent the Soviet Union Communism from
  expanding was known as
• Containment

8
Unit 1 Review

• The military alliance formed by the Western free
  nations following WWII was known as? (1 pt for
  acronym, 2 pts for full name)
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• The military alliance made by the communist
  Eastern European nations was
• The Warsaw Pact

9
Unit 1 Review

• The Soviet Union established a series of
  Communist satellite nations in Europe following
  WWII. What is a satellite nation?
• the small Eastern European nations dominated by
  the Soviet union.
• What were the satellite nations?
• Albania, Bulgaria, Czecoslovakia, Hungary,
  Romania, and Poland

10
Unit 1 Review

• How is Yugoslavia different from the other
  communist nations?
• Yugoslavia did not sign the Warsaw Pact to align
  themselves with the USSR.
• What was the geographic problem faced by free
  WEST BERLIN throughout the Cold War?
• They were stuck within the Soviet bloc

11
Unit 1 Review

• What are the two main goals of the United
  Nations?
• Lasting peace
• Raise the standard of living
• List the Big Five permanent countries on the UN
  security council
• US, France, Great Britain, China, USSR

12
Unit 1 Review

• Why was the UN ineffective in dealing with Cold
  War problems??
• Because the USSR was in the big five and
  therefore had the power to VETO any of the action
  plans the rest of the UN wanted to make.
• Who was the US general in charge of the
  occupation of Japan?
• General Douglas MacArthur

13
Unit 1 Review

• What were some of the provisions in the new
  constitution?
• No military unless in defense (called Article 9-
  2 pts)
• Established a parliamentary democracy
• Bill of rights, including womens right to vote.
• What helped the Japanese economy?
• we established a free market economy
  (capitalism)
• We gave them 2 billion in aide

14
Unit 1 Review

• What was the role of the Japanese emperor after
  WWII?
• He became a constitutional monarch who was only a
  figurehead

15
Unit 1 Review

• Why did the Allies want a strong Germany after
  WWII?
• we didnt want history (of the Versailles Treaty
  after WWI) to repeat itself.
• Why did the USSR want a weak Germany?
• They wanted to protect themselves from ever being
  threatened again
• Revenge

16
Unit 1 Review

• Why did the USSR choose not to hold free
  elections in the countries it occupied during
  WWII?
• It didnt want countries to vote democratically
  ally themselves with US and Western Allies.
• List 3 severe problems Western Europe faced in
  the years following WWII
• Loss of resources
• Starvation
• Tuberculosis

17
Unit 1 Review

• What are two ways that the wartime experiences of
  the U.S. and the Soviet Union were greatly
  different?
• USSR lost many more people, (2 mil vs 400,000 of
  the US)
• USSR fought on their soil destroyed their land
  and resources

18
Unit 1 Review

• What are the reasons why the Soviet Union
  distrusted the US after WWII?
• U.S. INTERVENED IN 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
• U.S. REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE THE USSR UNTIL 1933
• U.S. DELAYED ENTERING WWIIU.S. DELAYED INVASION
  OF WESTERN EUROPE
• USA MOST POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD