12-PE1 Ch1-7 Key Figures / Places

Republican senator for Wisconsin. He

ruthlessly exploited, and fermented, the anti-communist anxieties of the time.

• House of Un-American Activities Committee

• Kim Il Sung

• Joseph McCarthy

• Syngman Rhee

• Zhou Enlai

He was first Premier of the Peoples’ Republic of China, from 1949. He focused on consolidating the Communist Party’s power in China and reconstructing its economy.

• House of Un-American Activities Committee

• Kim Il Sung

• Joseph McCarthy

• Syngman Rhee

• Zhou Enlai

He had fought the Japanese and then fled to the USSR where he had been groomed as a possible leader of post-war Korea.

• House of Un-American Activities Committee

• Kim Il Sung

• Joseph McCarthy

• Syngman Rhee

• Zhou Enlai

this special committee of the US government became

permanent from 1945. Its purpose was to investigate communist

infiltration. People came to believe that communist infiltration into

the very core of US society existed, and therefore feared it.

• House of Un-American Activities Committee

• Kim Il Sung

• Joseph McCarthy

• Syngman Rhee

• Zhou Enlai

titular head of Japan during its phase of aggressive nationalism and imperial expansion in the Far East and the Pacific during the 1930s and the Second World War.

• Hirohito

• Jiang Jieshi

• General Douglas MacArthur

• Mao Zedong

• Shigeru Yoshida

He was Supreme Commander (SW Pacific) of US forces from 1942.

He accepted Japan’s surrender in September 1945

• Hirohito

• Jiang Jieshi

• General Douglas MacArthur

• Mao Zedong

• Shigeru Yoshida

a keen supporter of Japanese imperialism during the 1930s, but was ‘rehabilitated’ after the Second World War. He focused on Japan’s economic recovery and his acceptance of US protection for Japan

• Hirohito

• Jiang Jieshi

• General Douglas MacArthur

• Mao Zedong

• Shigeru Yoshida

founding member of the Chinese Communist Party and, after victory against the anti-communists, he established the People’s Republic of China in October 1949.

• Hirohito

• Jiang Jieshi

• General Douglas MacArthur

• Mao Zedong

• Shigeru Yoshida

He was China’s nationalist, anti-communist leader. After defeat in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, he was effectively exiled to become leader of the Republic of China

• Hirohito

• Jiang Jieshi

• General Douglas MacArthur

• Mao Zedong

• Shigeru Yoshida

the first chancellor of West Germany. As a committed anti-communist he firmly supported a Western-orientated foreign policy aimed at strengthening West Germany and ensuring its security.

• Dean G. Acheson

• Konrad Adenauer

• Lucius Clay

• George Kennan

• Andrei Alexsandrovich Zhdanov