1945 cold war tensions Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

What should you know about the Destructiveness of Nuclear Weapons? What is Firebombing?What is the daisy cutter? - Answer-Nuclear Weapons are supposed to be destructive, that's the point. Out ability to kill has increased; weapons have become more powerful and precise. Before, incendiary devices, or devices design to light fires was were used in WWII to increase the capacity to kill. Firebombs were used in Dresen, Hamburg, and Tokyo to kill hundreds of people. The Daisy cutter is a trigg...

INS3003 Final Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers Rated A+ What should you know about the Destructiveness of Nuclear Weapons? What is Firebombing?What is the daisy cutter? Nuclear Weapons are supposed to be destructive, that's the point. Out ability to kill has increased; weapons have become more powerful and precise. Before, incendiary devices, or devices design to light fires was were used in WWII to increase the capacity to kill. Firebombs were used in Dresen, Hamburg, and Tokyo t...

Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS, 1954 Supreme Court ruling reversing the policy of segregation from Plessy v Ferguson, declaring that seperate can never be equal and a year later ordered the integration of all public schools with all deliberate speed Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public tr...

What did Stalin promise at the Yelta conference in 1945? correct answers Free elections would be held in nation states (Poland,Czechoslovakia,Hungary,Romania and Bulgaria) Winston Churchill used this term in a speech to describe the soviet area of innfluence and the division of the east and west Europe. correct answers Iron Curtain Who was the leader of communist china after the cultural revolution? correct answers Mao Zedong In 1962, what event brought the world to the brink of Nuclear...

Identify the sources of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, even before the end of World War II. * "Different ambitions for future" * Communism: gov't control of economy, totalitarianism * Democracy: mainly private control of economy, free elections * Tensions over wartime decisions, atomic bomb What was the significance of the Yalta in terms of U.S./Soviet relations? * Feb. 1945 *Stalin had promised free elections in Soviet occupied Eastern Europe * Stalin d...

History-Cold War 1 Essay Plans It was the USA's commitment to a post-war democratic Europe that caused both the Yalta and Potsdam conferences to end in failure. Assess the validity of this view. - 1. Commitment to post-war democratic Europe -protection of capitalist and democratic systems was essential -allowed them to open economic markets and free trade (Bretton Woods Agreement 1944) - disputes over Germany=rebuild but Stalin wanted Morgenthau plan -Declaration of Liberated Europe= p...

Fascism A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition Communism A government system created by Karl Max advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned. Yalta Conference 1945 meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt in which the leaders discussed plans for the post-war world. Stalin agreed to join the fight with Japan 90 days after the war in Europe was over. Stal...

Marshall Plan a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) Berlin Wall In 1961, the Soviet Union built a high barrier to seal off their sector of Berlin in order to stop the flow of refugees out of the Soviet zone of Germany. The wall was torn down in 1989. Containment Policy established by the Truman administration in 1947 to contain Soviet influence to what it was at the end of World War II. berlin airlift planes flew in food,fue...

Ultimate AP World History Exam Review Mohandas K. Gandhi - led indian campaign for home rule focused on nonviolence Amritsar - city in N. India, British officers ordered masssacre of peaceful protestors in 1919. Muhammad Ali Jinnah - lawyer who became head of muslm league, wanted india to be devided into muslim and hindu regions Bal Gangadhar Tilak - founder of hindu nationalism. Helped lay groundwork for independence movement in India Sun Yatsen - Leader of revolution that ended ...

Christopher Columbus - Answer- Italian explorer, sailed from Spain in 1492 and reached Americas, greatly increased European awareness of the North American Continent Why did English settles colonize America - Answer- 1- to make money. 2- to set up religious freedom. 3- to govern themselves. 4- because their landlords evicted them. 5- they were unemployed. Why did the Spaniards fund Columbus? - Answer- Loot, land and labor, spread of Catholic faith, lots of people doing nothing-put them to ...