test 19 pt. 3 Flashcards
(10 cards)
what were NATO and Warsaw about?
the military alliance int he cold war
NATO-US
WARSAW-USSR
why was the berlin wall built?
to keep east Berliners inside of there part of the city- cant escape
what was the Marshall plan? worth it?
US gave money to losers or WW2, worth it
post war status?
USA- new top power, booming economy
GB/F- won, no longer top power
USSR- won but suffered
C- won agents J but civil war still happing
FA- lost and ended
COL- wanted independence
3 purposes of the UN
- forum for countries to communicate
- foreign aid
- collective security
who are in the United Nations Security Council?
USA,
UK,
FRANCE,
USSR
what was the cold war about?
struggle between democratic, capitalist, liberalism vs communists
Nuremberg
and
Tokyo trials
only 1 Nazi admitted guilt, others executed or imprisoned
Emperor allowed to live, others not so much
key contributors to the allies
GB- broke Nazi code w computer, radar, air strikes on Germany
USSR- highest human cost
USA- dropped atomic bombs or Japan, war equipment
C- greatest Asian human cost
deaths stats
70-58 million
USSR #1 death toll
12 million holocaust deaths
50 million uprooted
7,000 suicides in berlin
2 million women raped