Patkistan is the best place to live but poor to manage.
comments and discuss
Past Pepers of International Relations and Current Affiar
The Cold War=Exam Review
1.
Why did the United States and the Soviet Union have a strong but uneasy
alliance during WWII?
2.
Identify the Big Three that attended the Yalta conferences and the
countries they represented.
3.
Identify the three part agreement made at the Potsdam Conference. Did Stalin hold up his end of the Potsdam agreement?
4.
What proved to be the significance of the Potsdam Conference?
5.
Who made the Iron Curtain Speech?
What was his warning to the United States in this speech?
6.
Define the containment theory and identify who developed this theory.
7.
If the containment theory was applied, what was predicted would happen
to the Soviet Union?
8.
What official US foreign policy embodied the containment theory?
9.
When was this foreign policy first applied by the United States and
why?
10.
Identify the foreign policy plan implemented by the United States to
keep Europe free from communism.
11.
To what countries was this plan offered to?
12.
Which countries chose to participate and which did not?
13.
What American economic incentives did the US place on this plan?
14.
Which country cut access to West Berlin from West Germany?
15.
Identify Truman's three options and the one he chose to use.
16.
How long did the airlift proceed?
17.
What does the FCDA stand for and what was its role during the cold war?
18.
What was Sputnik?
19.
Explain how he attitude towards communism in America changed during the
1930s.
20.
Which president helped to start the Red Scare of the 1950s by scaring
the "hell" out of the nation to give him aid to Europe?
21.
Which man most symbolizes the Red Scare in the United States? What was his profession and what tactics did
he often use?
22.
What forum did the above man use to hunt down communists?
23.
What led to the eventual downfall of the above man?
24.
At what parallel was the nation of Korea divided at?
25.
What type of government did North and South Korea have?
26.
Which side started the war with an unprovoked attack?
27.
What president ordered US forces into Korea? What general took them there?
28.
What international organization did the US operate through during the
Korean War?
29.
Identify China's form of government and ruler during the Korean War.
30.
What South Korean city did US forces originally land in and set up a
defensive perimeter?
31.
What South Korean city did US forces launch a surprise landing?
32.
What type of military maneuver did MacArthur use to defeat the North
Koreans in South Korea?
33.
How did Truman redefine America's objectives in Korea?
34.
What warning did the Chinese offer to the US?
35.
Did MacArthur take this warning seriously? How do you know this?
36.
What happened to US forces after China entered the war?
37.
How did MacArthur and Truman's views differ on what to do next?
38.
Why did Truman eventually have to fire General MacArthur?
39.
How did the firing of MacArthur impact Truman and his popularity?
40.
Who won the presidential election of 1952 by promising to go to Korea
to evaluate the situation?
41.
What threat the US issue towards China to help win the war? Whose death helped to bring the war to an
end?
42. Why Cold war Ended peacefull?
43. Is the end of cold the end of Communism or victory of western democracy over communism?
44. What consequences faced by poor countries because of this threat of cold war?
45. After the cold is the world still divided into two poles?
World War I, and its comparison with World War II
World
war 1
1.
Main causes
a. Militarism
i.
The British army was
largest army of the world and Germany had second largest naval army of the
world. The Germany introduced U-Boat
b. Alliances
i.
Two blocks of
countries who went against each other for the sack of raw material and search
for new market due to industrialization. These two groups of countries are
1. Allied Powers (Triple Entente) which include Russia, Britain, and
France
2. Central Powers (Triple Alliance) which include Austria-Hungary,
Ottomon Empire and Germany.
c. Nationalism
i.
Germany, Britain,
France, Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Russia were one of the largest
industrial nations who promote its own national ideology to all over the world.
d. Imperialism
i.
Different nations
went against each other for the sack of colonialism and nationalism in order to
lead the world.
e. Assassination of Archduke Frenz Ferdinend
i.
A Serbian terrorist
attacked and killed Archduke of Austria-Hungary the Frenz Ferdinend which
ignite the cause of World War 1. In reply of this A-H attacked Serbia.
2.
Effects of World War 1
- Formation of League of Nation
- Treaty of Vesalles singed by “Big Four”
- Germany, A-H and O-E was defeated
- O-E and A-H as an empire was ceased to exist
- 14 points of Widrow Willson
- Economic depression of European nations which lead to emergence of dictators like Hitler that results in WW2
- More then 20 million military death, 7 million civilian deaths and wounded and missed and displaced are also enormous in number
- Russia considered itself as communist state
- After WW1 the world was going toward another war that was much destructive and devastating then previous one. i.e. WW2. But after WW2 the whole world was divided in east and west zone and start of cold war.
3.
Common things in WW1 and WW2
- Both these wars were fought between super powers at that time
- Both wars had same causes except assassination of Archduke
- At first US was isolated in both the wars but after she became part of both the wars
- An international organization was formed at the end of both the wars. i.e. the league of the Nations after WW1 and UNO after WW2 but both these organization were failed to achieve their objective and unable to stop the disputes of the world.
- Both the wars were won by same nations i.e. USA, UK, Russia, France (allied powers)
- Huge destruction of humanity and infrastructure
- In both the wars a secret document was leaked that resulted in German defeat. i.e. in WW1 the Zimmer Note, and in WW2 -------------
- Air attacks, machine guns, naval wars were common in both the wars
- Both the wars were planned by Germany. i.e. Schleffen Plan in WW1 and Mein Kamph of Hitler’s plan
1.
Differences between both the wars
- In WW1 empires like Ottomon Empire, The Great Britain and A-H empires were fought along with other nations. But in WW2 countries are involved
- World War 2 was due to dictators and their philosophies but WW1 was not involved such dictatorships
- WW2 was due to economic depression of whole Europe but WW1 was fought for the search of raw material and new markets
- WW2 was the war of ideologies like fascism, communism, and capitalism but WW1 was due to revenge and long lasting enmity among the nations
- The destruction in WW2 was more then WW1
- WW2 was ended after the complete destruction and surrender of Germany, Japan and Italy but WW1 was ended after a treaty i.e. treaty of Versailes
- The UNO formed after WW2 was more powerful organization then League of the Nations formed after WW1
- In WW1 air technology and new forms of naval techniques were introduced but in WW2 atomic bomb like weapons were used and introduced.
Politics and Strategies of USA and its Allies during Cold war
Politics and Strategies of USA and its Allies during Cold war
1. Capitalism and democracy
2. Winston Churchill’s iron curtain
3. Containment of communism by offering Truman Doctrine and Marshal
Plan(reconstruction of Europe)
4. Berlin airlift
5. NATO alliances (1949)
6. US involved in Korea war when north Korea attacked south Korea
which is backed by USA and its capitalist allies
7. US invaded Vietnam (1954-1975) and resulted in humiliating
defeat after losing deaths of its large number of soldiers.
8. Arms race, space race and star wars in which USA won over USSR
9. Started to develop West Germany by uniting whole of its ally’s
zones in to WestGermany which is a capitalist state.
10. Missiles deployed by USA in central Europe and turkey against
communism expansion
11. USA prepared alliances with Islamic jihads and created al-Qaida
and Taliban and Osama bin laden against USSR by using Pakistan in proxy war.
12. USA won the cold war (1989 / 1991)
Politics and Strategies of USSR during Cold war
|
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
-
Important Quotes of International Relations “The glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world—constantly. It...
-
Sovereignty and Challenges to Sovereignty of Pakistan Introduction The idea of sovereignty emerged from Aristotle’s philosophy of st...
-
Services of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan 1. Introduction The Muslim community of subcontinent produced a great leader in the darkest hou...