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1. In what year and what city, was the United Nations built?
The United Nations was built in 1945 in New York City.
2. How many nations signed the original UN charter in San Francisco?
Fifty nations signed the original UN chart in San Francisco.
3. Name five effects of Communism in Russia.
Rejection of God, isolation, poverty, scarcity, loss of freedom
4. With all the objections to communism, why did the Western world cooperate with Russia?
The allies believed that cooperation with Russia’s leader Joseph Stalin was essential to defeating Hitler.
5. What two things did Stalin verbally agree to establish in Eastern Europe, if the US and England gave in to his demands for control?
Joseph Stalin agreed to establish representative government and to permit free elections in Eastern Europe after the war but he did not keep his promise.
6. Why might Franklin Delano Roosevelt have defended Josef Stalin actions to Prime Minister Winston Churchill?
Stalin encouraged nationalist and socialist revolution in the African and Asian colonies and FDR and his advisers believed that democratic socialism was the solution to the problems of the lesser developed nations of the world.
7. In what year and what city did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet together?
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met together in 1945 at Yalta, a seaside resort on the Russian coast of the Black Sea.
8. What did Roosevelt appease Stalin with so that Russia would enter the war against Japan?
Roosevelt gave a very large chunk of Poland and allowed him to encourage a pro communist government in Poland, itself.
9. What Nationalist Chinese leader did Roosevelt betray in allowing Stalin to keep the province of Manchuria and Mongolia?
Roosevelt betrayed Chang Kai-shek who fought bravely communist terrorists and the Japanese.
10. Why is “People’s Republic” misleading?
“People’s Republic” is misleading, because communism is in dictatorial nature not Republican meaning it is controlled by one person, not by the people.
11. What new enemy were America and Western Europe facing at the end of World War II?
At the end of World War II America and Western Europe were facing the new enemy, international communism.
12. Name four freedoms that are denied by communism.
Four freedoms that are denied by communism are the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom to travel, especially outside the country.
13. Describe a “Cold War.”
A “Cold War” is a war find out what military weapons, but with words and diplomacy; where two nations are ends with each other but do not come into open combat.
14. Describe the Truman Doctrine’s policy of containment.
The Truman Doctrine declared that the US would provide economic aid to any free country to help resist Communist aggression. Through economic aid the US believed to contain communism, because it would have gained favor with its European allies and there would be no reason for the European nations to turn to communism, because their economies would have turned around.
15. Describe the George C. Marshall Plan.
The George C. Marshall plan, announced that the US would provide economic assistance to help European nations recover from World War II with the stipulation that each nation receiving aid must also be willing to do all within its own power to the economy.
16. In what year did the US put into effect the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan?
The US declared the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan in 1947.
17. Why did Russia not want Europe to recover economically?
Russia did not want Europe to recover economically because Communism thrives in misery and poverty.
18. What does NATO stand for, what year was it formed, and why?
NATO stands for is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and it was organized in 1949 to combat the communist threat to the free world.
19. Who was the Communist leader trying to overthrow the Chinese government in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s?
Mao Tse-tung was the Communist leader trying to overthrow the Chinese government 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
20. Who was the Chinese nationalist leader and Christian statesman who fought against the Communists but finally established a nationalist government on the island of Taiwan?
Chiang Kai-shek was that the Chinese Nationalist leader who fought against the Communists but eventually established a Nationalist government on the island of Taiwan.
21. What helped Mao Tse Tung’s Communists today featuring Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist in 1949?
Mao Tse Tung’s Communist forces were armed with confiscated Japanese artillery, and plenty of aid from the USSR, including American lend-lease supplies left over from World War II.
22. What did Chang Kai-shek Nationalist forces do after being defeated by Mao Tse Tung’s communist regime?
Chiang Kai-shek established a free Nationalist government on Taiwan and Mao Tse Tung established a communist regime called the People’s Republic of China on China’s mainland.
23. Both the Russians and the Chinese had aspirations to rule the world, agreeing that should be Communist.
However what they disagree on? Both the Russians and the Chinese agreed that the world should be communist, but each nation believe that they be in control.
24. What was the “Great Leap Forward” in China and what were it effects?
The “Great Leap Forward” was where people were forced to work in factories or on large, collective farms. Because of the “Great Leap Forward” productivity declined, machines broke down and agricultural, and general agricultural output decreased which led to massive decrease in food production. Millions of people starved to death.
25. Describe the “Cultural Revolution” in Communist China.
The purpose of the “Cultural Revolution” in communist China was to cleanse you of all western and foreign influences. The Red Guard mostly young people filled China street’s with demonstrations, marches, protests, and attacked Chinese intellectuals and professionals; murdering nearly 400,000 people in terrorizing millions more. Professionals were in prison or torture; others were forced to work menial jobs. Places of education and places representing culture were vandalized and destroyed. Whereas the rest of the world was moving up in the standard of living, Communist China was moving backwards.
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