Date: 10/3/13 Activity: Review Challenge Warm Up: NONE Homework: *Test Tomorrow 10/4 PgAssignmentDate 15Truman Doctrine Rdg9/30 16Truman Doctrine Questions9/30 17Rebuilding Western Europe9/30 18Rebuilding Graphs/Charts9/30 19 Unit 1 Review9/30 20Japanese Occupation Rdg10/1 21Japanese Occupation Notes10/1 22Like Music To our Ears10/1 23 Berlin Crisis Qs, cartoon & photo 10/1 Welcome to Contemporary U.S. and World History

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 people’s lives is: –Totalitarianism

Unit 1 Review People working together to benefit the whole: –Collectivism Government by the people through voting –Democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 women’s right to vote. What helped the Japanese economy? – we established a free market economy (capitalism) –We gave them 2 billion in aide

Unit 1 Review What was the role of the Japanese emperor after WWII? –He became a constitutional monarch who was only a figurehead

Unit 1 Review Why did the Allies want a strong Germany after WWII? –we didn’t 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

Unit 1 Review Why did the USSR choose not to hold free elections in the countries it occupied during WWII? –It didn’t 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

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

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