Please help me with my final!!!!!! im so tired!!?

Question

I'm doing a 25 minute panel discussion and I have to know all 4 topics, I already have three down solid, I need help just with these questions on the Cold war section:

Compare and contrast the competing economic and military alliances developed by the US and USSR in their effort to rebuild Europe.

How did the city of Berlin exemplify the tensions between the two new superpowers?

The Koran War is known as the "Forgotten war". Is that an accurate statement?

I just need some real brief points. Nothing long, as it will be a discussion. Any help would be appreciated.

id normally do it all on my own but i am so overwhelmed with all my studying for other classes and studying like crazy for this other borderline grade. plz understand yall.

Answer 1

1. Well with respect to the USSR, they weren't really interested in rebuilding anyone except themselves. You have to remember that the USSR, thanks to Germany and her invasions, lost TWENTY million people and saw her entire infrastructure collapse. That's why, especially with respect to East Germany, they simply raided what they wanted from that territoiry and brought it BACK to their homeland. The USSR's focus was also to create a "buffer zone" between them and their satellite territories, thereby making a LAND invasion more difficult. The US, by contrast followed the Marshall plan, which basically said that conquered territories HAD to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, provided they had enough economic support. While they also put bases inside of Germany (to keep communism from expanding), they also poured MILLIONS into her recovery.
2) Most specifically, when the USSR chose to BLOCKADE West Berlin in 1948, hoping to starve the city out and allow them to absorb this half of the city as well. The Americans and British would NOT allow that to happen, so what followed was a stalemate of sorts while these two countries airlifted supplies to the starving city. It's also why Berliners are enormously fond of Americans and English people; without that airlift, they WOULD have capitulated.
3) The Korean War is a "forgotten war" becasue 1) at the time, no formal war was declared; it was a "military action" in the region and because these veterans have been overshadowed by both World Wars and Vietnam.

Answer 2

Berlin was divided by a wall, put up almost overnight by the communists. City divided into East (Communist) and West (Democratic). Citizens in the east were not allowed to cross into the west, although there were gates (Checkpoints). West seen as decadent by Russia. East seen a bit like a vast prison by America. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Sorry all I got is Korean War but no it is not accurate because there is a korean war memorial in Washington D.C. and even though it ended in a stalemate it basically destroyed any form of alliance with China

Answer 4

I slept with a banana due to the fact my dad is a terrorist. To start with, my dad will not be a terrorist, he is an undercover bomb clerk (which means he gets bombs to see if they are nuclear and robust sufficient to, ya' understand, wipe em' all out, then promote them at the Black Market). And that wasn't a banana, honey, that was once a.... Under no situations brain me. Just a thinking about pedestrian on cyber sidewalks, lonely as a cloud.