US CONTAINMENT IN ASIA Flashcards
(8 cards)
-RECONSTRUCTION OF POST WAR JAPAN- WHAT WAS US FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS JAPAN?
-‘REVERSE COURSE’- NOT FOCUSED ON THE PUNISHMENT OF JAPAN BUT INSTEAD WANTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION TO GAIN POLITICAL STABILITY
-US SAW JAPAN AS ESSENTIAL TO ITS POWER BASE IN ASIA
- UNDISGUISED STRATEGY OF ENSURING THAT JAPAN REMAINED ALIGNED TO THE US AND LESS VULNERABLE TO COMMUNIST INFLUENCE
-JAPAN WAS GIVEN EFFICIENT TAXATION, A BALANCED BUDGET AND MEMBERSHIP TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE WHICH PREVENTED TRADE WITH COMMUNIST CHINA
WHY WERE US- JAPANESE RELATIONS IMPORTANT?
-GEOPOLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE-N 1N 1950 CHINESE LEADER MAO ZEDONG ENTERED A MILITARY ALLIANCE WITHE USSR AND CHINA JOINED NORTH KOREA IN WAR AGAINST SOUTH KOREA
- THEREFORE JAPAN BECAME CRUCIAL IN THE US’ ATTEMPTS TO CONTAIN COMMUNISM IN THE FAR EAST
- WHAT WAS THE 1951 SAN FRANSISCO TREATY?
- A PEACE TREATY WITH THE US AND JAPAN
-STATED THAT JAPAN RENOUNCED ITS CLAIM ON ANY NEIGHBOURING TERRITORIES LIKE TAIWAN AND KOREA AND RECOGNISED THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE
- WHAT WAS THE US-JAPAN SECURITY 1951?
-SIGNED RIGHT AFTER THE SAN FRANCISCO TREATY AND GAVE THE US UNRESTRICTED USE OF MILITARY BASES IN JAPAN
- THE RIGHT TO USE MILITARY FORCE IN JAPAN
- THE RIGHT TO PREVENT JAPAN FROM GIVING MILITARY BASES TO OTHER STATES
JAPANS REARMAMENT- WHAT DID THE US DO?
-MONITORED JAPANS REARMAMENT FROM 1951-54 AND LIMITED THE SIZE OF THEIR MILITARY
-AFTER 1954 JAPAN WAS ALLOWED TO HAVE ARMED FORCES THAT WERE DEFENSIVE ONLY AND LIMITED TO 140,OOO MEN
— ALLOWED JAPAN TO INCREASE ITS MILITARY SIZE TO DEFEND AGAINST GROWING COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN THE EAST
WHAT WAS US POLICY TOWARDS CHINA AND TAIWAN AND WHY?
-IN 1949 CHINA HAD A SUCCESSFUL COMMUNIST REVOLUTION LED BY MAO ZEDONG
- IN 1950, CHINA MADE A MILITARY ALLIANCE WITH THE USSR
- BECAUSE OF THIS FOREIGN POLICY CHANGED TO ASSISTING ANTI-COMMUNIST GOVERNMENTS IN THE EAST WHICH INCLUDED THE EXILED JIANG JIESHI FROM TAIWAN AND THE KMT SO THAT THEY BDIDNT REINFORCE THE SINO-SOVIET ALLIANCE
-DEFENCE OF JAPAN WAS FIRST PRIORITY
-WHEN DID THE USA’S NUCLEAR MONOPOLY END?
1949 WITH THE USSR TESTING ITS OWN ATOMIC BOMB , THIS COMBINED WITH TRUMANS ‘LOSS OF CHINA’ INFLUENCED FOREIGN POLICY GOING FORWARD
WHEN WAS NSC-68 AND WHAT WAS IT?
CREATED IN APRIL 1950
- IT WAS A REVIEW OF TH US’ FOREIGN POLICY AND STATED THAT THEY NEEDED TO INCREASE MILITARY SPENDING AND. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE NUCLEAR WEAPONRY
