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  • HUAC

    founded in 1938 but revived during McCarthy rein- argued teachers- reducators and famous hollywood 10 who were commies
  • UN oct 1945

    come to be in 1945 agreed in june but made official in oct 1945
    mbrship in 1945 remain unchanged until 1955
    50 org countries, 20 cap central and s america
    middle east- pro us, iran, iraq, egyp
    afr early mb states- ethiopia and liberia
    comm china not there- taiwan is
    only pol east eu state
  • security council UN

    made of 5mbs
    fr, gbr, china, ussr, usa
    each had right to veto
  • Period: to

    veto uses

    ussr-75
    gbr-0
    usa-0
    fr- 2
    china-1
  • reconstruction of japan

    1947 reverse course for jpn
    no hard punishments
    need as us base- stop spread com
    containment in asia
  • ww2 peace treaty jpn

    shigeru yoshida-pm of jpn
    john foster dulles- us negotiator in japan
    us keep troops on soil
  • north korea

    kim il sung - comm zone establ sep 1948
  • south korea aug 1948

    cap zone under syngman rhee- anti-comm
  • nrth viet plea to ussr attack sth may 1949

    had 4 points
    20,000 guerilla fghtr already in sth
    us no time interv
    fast, decisive victory, well organised guerila force
    - said same points to china- undermine eachothers influence / role when talking to other.
    stalin said no- strngthn guerillaa fighters- aware of 7500 us fighters stationed in SK
  • FRG council of Eu

    right establsh among other countires and have reprsnt on OEEC
  • NATO april 1949

    12 founding mbs- usa,uk,fr,beneluex countires, port, iceland
    2% of countries gdp fund nato
  • jpn join GATT

    general agreement on trade and tariffs
    - strnghtn jpn trade with west, stopd trade comm china
  • SCAP macArthur.

    supreme commander of allied powers General MacArthur
    clear plan for jpn
    balance budget and stricter lending criteria, wage controls
  • supreme balanced budget

    joseph doge and hayato ikeda- 157 mill yen (4mill us dollars) set as target surplus
    closure of businesses led to unemployment
  • ussr Ambomb

    successful in 1949, way before west predicted
    had insider info
    start of MAD- end of nuke monopoly
  • china white paper

    support for jian jieshi and nationalist taiwan against commies, china, in secret, by dean g acheson- secretary of state and later george marshall as successor. secretly so not imperialist menace justofy withdrawl of militry support for jiang jieshi.
  • UN forces in korea

    Un forces led by general Douglas McArtur- under pre-text pf un forces- not show american involvement. passed through UN whcih ussr was boycotting at time- recogn of taiwan china, not comm mao china.
  • defensive perimeter strategy

    made by dean g acheson- korea not part of it, included all the countries that us responsible for , military security and pacific,
  • china- Mao zedong

    comm revolt- china against jiang jeshi- taiwan nationalists, vict 1950 china comm.
  • ussr aid north

    gave 178 military aircraft
    258 T-34 Tanks, 1600 artillery units-
    all change after china comm
    but not prepared to give troops to wat- aggrv west too much
  • NSC-68

    took a more proactive role of containment, militarised cold war, they had to build up a strong defence in case they had to use it.
  • sino-sov alliance

  • Alger hiss

    richard nixon 'sold country down the river'
    sent personal info to the soviets
    war time policy advisor
    arrested and jailed for purgery
  • Period: to

    MCARTHYISM

    marked shift in policy from eu to asia
    intensified anti-comm sentiment
    confirm change containment- truman too soft- eisenhower mocked and intro of brinkmanship
  • north k invade south 25 jun 1950

    korea seperatd by 38th parallel
    end war- staus quo- south and north now seperat
  • 7th fleet

    usa bring china into korea war- place a ship/ fleet between taiwan and china- aggression
    2 days after start of korea war
  • Rosenbergs

    julius and ethel rosenburg convicted of espionage for the ussr- arrested and killed- huge, had kids
  • san franciso peace treaty

    fifnt punish jpn, restric jpn econ, restric futr political model, identify jpn role in ww2m restrict future rearmament.
    treaty recogn- jpn soverty, jpn renounce claim to terriory of empr- e.g korea
    gave usa unrestricted use of military bases jpn. administrative control of owknowa
    right to veto jpn offering military bases to other countries.
  • COMECON

    1951- communist countries help eachother with money and wheat and other materials in times of need.
  • ANZUS 1951

    encirclement of ussr, aus, nzlnd, usa
    non-binding collective
    nz suspended- refuse to allow ships carrying nukes in its water
    2002- resume political co-op
    aus- no support recieved in konfrontasi conflict against indonesia and malaysia- 1960s
  • jpn re-armament

    called for 75,000 national police force, trained by us
    aug 1952- 110,000 ground troops and 7600 maritime personnel
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower nov 1952

    brinmanship and rollback- actively tried to convert commie countries to cap- not succesfl
    was after truman, took containmnet further
    Atom bomb just another bomb in our arsenal
  • General treaty frg

    abolished state of occupation
    may 1952- signed in BONN
    ussr immediately recogn freedom of gdr- made warsaw pact
  • The new look policy

    by john foster dulles and eisenhower
    roll back and brinkmanship- reject trumans making of conventional forces- too expnsv- so nukes main use of defence
  • Greece and Turkey join NATO

    ussr- saw as expanison of usa and capitalism, seen as threat
  • stalin death march 1953

    power struggle, bulgarin, kruschev, baria, molotov, malenkov
    dismantle police state run by stalin
  • gbr crisis

    gbr crisis- walter ulbrich made 5 yr plan, at comecon, rose the workers target goal. in 1953
    church mbs arrestd
    sklld workers fled
    ublricht called on 2nd june to lower standars and improv conditions - he didn't so there were strikes
  • NSC 162/2 oct 1953

    national security council- made nukes the main defence stratedgy for usa
    prevent agrsn against west
  • strikes in GDR

    jun 1953, stikes and riots in east ger
    want free elects, make social democrat party and rise in pay
    100,000 ppl in street
    next day ussr troops retalliate and 125 killed
  • jpn self defence force 1954

    140,000 strong self-defence force created
    us fund $240 mill and sell us agricultural surplus jpn
  • geneva conference

    call end of viet war- split into two and have elections when ready- never to happen because west knew that ho chi minh - commies would be elected bcuz they were leading nlf and got freedom for the vietnamese.
    divided 17th parallel
  • McCarthy discredited

    he was a winsconsin republican senator.
    went after army- went too high up, accused them of being soft
    famous speech 'have you no decency sir' by joseph n welch
    j. edgar hoover- teachers= reducators.
    dec 1954 sentate vote against him
  • dien bien phu

    decisive battle where the vietnamese beat the french
    led to geneva conf
  • vietwar fr- 1954

    usa was fighting 75% of it, silent american
    determined to help and intro containment
    believe in domino effect
  • SEATO sep 1954

    south east asia organis
    tried to encircle commies, make a nuke umbrella
    made by john foster dulles
    response to close sino-sov alliance
    thailan, fr, aus, usa, gbr, pkstrn, philip, nzld
  • FRG in NATO may 1955

    done by konrad adenaur- chancellor of west ger
    limit army and no nukes- to placate fr
  • METO feb 1955

    middle east treaty orgaisation
    or baghdad pact feb 1955
    uk, iraq, persia (iran), pkstn
    counter sov expansion in middle east and oil producing regions
  • warsaw pact 1955

    made after frg was made indepnd and admitted to NAT)
  • Iraq withdrew from METO

    moved headquaters to ankara turkey, name change to CENTO and UN became associate mb
  • SEATO dissolved

    june 30 1977
  • CENTO disslvd

    because iran withdrew- pro-us regime overthrown, shak,