SS11 (Post-War - Part A) Name: Dhanbir.V Period: Blk.1 Canada in the 1950s Read Counterpoints p. 168 -189 The Changing Face of Canada (p. 170-178) 1. Explain the “baby boom” of the post-war years. What effect do you think this would have on Canadian society? -The increase in the birth rate that took place in Canada was known as the “baby boom”. -The demand for baby products and services and grown and many woman had to leave their jobs to support
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Yalta Conference 1945 meeting between Big Three to determine post-war status of Germany and rest of world‚ but mostly Germany‚ resulted in division of Germany among them. Creation of UN to replace League of Nations. USSR promises to join war in pacific after Germany falls Harry S. Truman. President 45-53. Decisions made during his administration: Truman Doctrine‚ Marshall Plan‚ World Bank‚ Berlin Airlift‚ NATO‚ Point Four‚ Korean War‚ decision to drop atom bombs. Favored strong resistance to communism
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The Korean War is seen as the “flashpoint” in the Cold War‚ which made the Cold war a global conflict. North Korea was led by Kim Il-Sung and was communist. South Korea was led by Syngman Rhee and was capitalist. Though it is said that Kim Il-Sung‚ who headed The Democratic People’s Republic‚ which was created by the Soviet Union‚ had adopted a policy of opposition to Rhee’s government and for the unification of the Korean peninsula by armed force‚ there are still many other theories as to why the
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Unit 2 - Assignment Shellie Everhart Kaplan University AB122-01 February 12‚ 2012 Professor Charles Benson Unit 2 Question: Ken‚ a salaried employee‚ was terminated from his company in April of this year. Business had been slow since the beginning of the year‚ and each of the operating plants had lain off workers. Ken’s dismissal was processed through the Human Resources Department‚ but the information was not relayed to the corporate payroll office. As had been the policy‚ checks for
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Mr. Friedman/Mrs. Marshall 4/10/12 My Name is Eric Novembre. I am sophomore in high school. Everyone can confirm that I am a average student but I am lazy. My favorite subjects are geometry and U.S. history. I am going to enter the University because my goal is to study my favorite subjects in future and to become a professional in this area. I can say that I am a responsible and
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Jubayer Ahmed Mr.Disiro period 8 Imagine a war without the use of weapons. The Cold War was a standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union without a use of arms (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). It was a period of time with great resentment and pressure. Even though both sides never had a direct military confrontation‚ they engaged in “proxy wars” and threatened each other with nuclear annihilation (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). For over forty years the Soviets and Americans
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as the "Cold War". It could have been called this for many reasons. Perhaps it was the cold feelings between the west and the east. Or maybe it was because of the nuclear winter that would have resulted from open war. The most probable suggestion‚ however‚ is that there was no direct combat. In times of war‚ locations entailing heavy fighting are known as "hot-spots". In this war however‚ the east and the west never engaged in head-to-head combat‚ resulting in a "cold war’. Generally in war‚ battles
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was Berlin to the development and outbreak of the Cold War‚ 1945-1961? The first period of time we need to look at is the year of 1945‚ when the Second World War ended. This was also the year when the Yalta‚ in February 1945‚ and the Potsdam Conference‚ in July 1945‚ was hold in order to discuss certain problems and plans that occurred or should have been done after the end of war. The tensions‚ which had lead to the beginning of the Cold War started to emerge more intensively at those two conferences
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The cold war was marked by a conflict that spanned from 1947 to1991 involving subtle surveillance in the biggest cities of the world to violent battles in the tropical jungles of Vietnam. Its general ideas were for the United States to hinder the spread of communism or for the Soviet Union to expand their communist government. With this the cold war largely influenced the economic‚ revolutionary‚ and humanitarian aid of both rivaling nations for areas that suffered the most after World War II. Their
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What were the Cold War fears of the American people in the aftermath of the Second World War? How successfully did the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower address these fears? In the years following the end of World War II‚ the American population’s attention was diverted to one threat: that of a Communist takeover by Soviet Russia. The Eisenhower Administration responded to the crisis by promoting government investments into defense systems and education; such responses did not completely
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