ALLIANCES AND SHIFTS

Question 1

-WHEN DID DWIGHT EISENHOWER BECOME PRESIDENT?

Answer 1

-JANUARY 1953

Question 2

-WHEN DID NIKITA KRUSHCHEV BECOME LEADER OF THE USSR?

Answer 2

• SEPTEMBER 1953

Question 3

• WHAT WAS SEATO AND WHEN WAS IT CREATED?

Answer 3

-SEPTEMBER 1954
-SEATO WAS A COLLECTIVE DEFENCE TREATY MADE AFTER IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THE SINO-SOVIET ALLIANCE WAS STRENGTHENING IN 1953 WHEN KRUSHCHEV VISITED CHINA AND PROVIDED THEM WITH ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL AID TO STRENGTHEN THEIR ECONOMY AND NATIONAL SECURITY(CREATED BY DULLES- SECRETARY OF STSTE)

Question 4

-WHAT WAS THE FRG?

Answer 4

• STANDS FOR THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC O GERMANY AND WAS CREATED IN 1949 AFTER THE BERLIN BLOCKADE
• THE FRG WAS GIVEN THE POWER TO GOVERN ITSELF AND WAS LED BY CHANCELLORS CONRAD ADEAUER
• BECAME A POWERFUL ALLY TO THE WEST
• MAY 1955 WAS ACCEPTED INTO NATO
• IT THEN BEGAN TO REARM WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE WEST
• IN 1955 AFTER THE FRG JOINED NATO THE SOVIETS CREATED THE WARSAW PACT

Question 5

WHEN WAS THE WARSAW PACT CREATED AND WHY?

Answer 5

-MAY 1955
- CREATED AFTER WEST GERMANY WAS ALLOWED TO REARM AND JOIN NATO MILITARYB ALLAINCE WITH SATELLITE STAATES
- MADE TO LEGITIMISE INFLUENCE IN EASTERN EUROPE

Question 6

-WHAT WAS SIMILAR ABOUT TRUMANS AND EISENHOWERS NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY?

Answer 6

-AGREED THAT THE US MUST RETAIN INFLUENCE IN WESTERN EUROPE
-US SHOULD RETAIN INFLUENCE IN ASIA
-SOVIET THREAT WAS SIGNIFICANT AND CONTAINMENT OF SOVIET EXPANSION WAS FUNDAMENTAL
-US MUST RETAIN A STRONG NUCLEAR ARSENAL AND CONVENTIONAL FORCS

Question 7

-WHAT WAS EISENHOWERS FOREIGN POLICY?

Answer 7

• NEW LOOK POLICY- CONTAINMENT HAD ONLY LED TO A STALEMATE- EISENHOWER WANTED TO REDUCE COMMUNISM PEACEFULLY AND WASNT GOING TO ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THE USSR’S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE OR LIBERATE ANY PRO-SOVIET COMMUNIST STATES

-MASSIVE RETALIATION- THE US WOULD BE PREPARED TO RESPOND TO AN ATTACK WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS( MOST COST EFFICIENT METHOD )

• BRINKMANSHIP THE US WOULD PUSH TO THE BRINK OF WAR WITHOUT ACTUALLY GOING TO WAR AND USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO FORCE AGREEMENT
• COVERT OPERATIONS USING THE CIA TO STIR UP ANTI-COMMUNIST- SENTIMENT

Question 8

• WHAT WAS DOMINO THEORY?

Answer 8

• THE IDEA THAT IF ONE COUNTRY IN ASIA FELL TO COMMUNISM THEN THE REST WOULD FOLLOW

Question 9

• WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN VIETNAM AROUND 1952?

Answer 9

• AT THE END OF WW2, VIETNAM BEGAN TO DESIRE FREEDOM FROM FRANCE
• THE LEADER OF THIS MOVE FOR INDEPENDANCE WAS HO CHI MINH,. A COMMUNIST, HE COMMANDED THE DRV( DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM)
• EISENHOWER INITIALLY SUPPORTED THE FRENCH AS HE WANTED TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM IN ASIA
• BY 1954 THE FRENCH WERE DEFEATED AT THE HANDS OF THE VIET MINH AT THE BATTLE OF DIEN BIEN PHU
• NEGOTIATIONS WERE CONVENED AT GENEVA 1954

Question 10

-WHEN AND WHAT WAS THE GENEVA CONFERENCE?

Answer 10

-JULY 1954
-THE FRENCH HAD BEEN DEFEATED AT THE BATTLE DIEN BIEN PHU AND THE CONFERENCE WAS HAD FOR NEGOTIATIONS
- IT WAS AGREED THAT 2 ZONES WOULD BE CREATED AND THE FRENCH WOULD LEAVE THE NORTH WHILST THE NATIONALISTS WOULD LEAVE THE SOUTH
- THERE WAS THE PROMISE OF AN ELECTION IN 2 YEARS TO VOTE ON THE SEPARATION
- THE NORTH WAS LKED BY HO CHI MINH AND BACKED BY CHINA WHILE THE SOUTH WAS LED BY DIEM