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Unit 7 US History T
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 4. Who were the “Big Three” leaders? | Stalin, FDR, Churchill |
| 13. Why did Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan? | Fear of loss of life at a Japanese invasion |
| 1. Why did FDR want to get involved with WWII before the Bombing of Pearl Harbor? | if Great Britain fell to Hitler, it would be a threat to US democracy |
| 11. Did the supreme court approve or disapprove of Japanese Internment? | approve |
| 18. List 3 reasons the Soviets were hostile towards the Allies after WWII, leading to the Cold War. | not opening a Western Front earlier; refusing to share atomic bomb information; US had attempted to help anti-communist rebels in the Soviet Union right after WWI |
| 26. What was Eisenhower’s purpose for the Interstate Highway Act? What was the unintended consequence of this act? | Purpose: easily evacuate cities during nuclear war; Unintended: rise of suburbs |
| 2. What act was passed after the Neutrality Acts are abandoned according to the cartoon to the left? | Lend Lease Act |
| 22. Why did Kennedy put up a naval blockade around Cuba in 1962? | Soviet Union Missiles were stationed there |
| 7. After the Allies were victorious at the turning point battles of Midway and North Africa, the United States was able to fight an offensive war or defensive war? | Offensive War |
| 5. Why did President Roosevelt refer to December 7, 1941 as “a day which will live in infamy?” | Bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| 28. What were women’s roles like after WWII? | traditional wife and mother |
| 19. How did the Manhattan Project influence an arms race between the US and Soviet Union after WWII? | US failed to share nuclear bomb information |
| 31. How did the size of the middle class change after WWII? | increased |
| 6. Why did women and minorities gain economically during WWII? | given the jobs of male soldiers overseas |
| 29. List 3 causes of suburban development in the 1950’s. | Baby Boom, GI Bill, Interstate Highway Act |
| 8. What is the main idea of this cartoon? | Buy War Bonds to fund the war and fight Hitler |
| 3. Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor? | natural resources, its desire to expand its empire, and a fear that the US’s embargo |
| 20. Which Cold War conflict was a UN police action? | Korean War |
| 10. Was the treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII unjust, favorable, or justifiable? | unjust |
| 15. Why was Israel created? | atrocities of the Holocaust |
| 17. The Soviet’s launching Sputnik into space caused the United States to invest in what type of education? Why? | Math and Science to be competative |
| 12. What did African Americans want to do after the treatment they encountered as members of the military during WWII? | Fight for civil rights at home |
| 25. How did the GI Bill affect the growth of suburbs? (did they grow or get smaller) | Grow |
| 21. This is a picture of the border between what 2 countries? | North and South Korea |
| 9. What did Rosie the Riveter symbolize? | Women’s new role in the US workforce during the war. |
| 23. What event sparked this political cartoon? | Cuban Misisle Crisis |
| 14. What was the US’s foreign policy before WWII? How did this change after WWII? (Hint think UN and NATO) | Isolationism to Global alliances |
| Policy towards communism including containment of communism where it is (throuh military and economic involvement) based on the domino theory | b. Truman Doctrine |
| CIA trains anti-Castro exiles living in the US to invade Cuba. Complete failure embarrassing JFK | j. Bay of Pigs (who was embarrassed by its failure?) |
| idea that if one country fell to communism then other countries around could also fall to communism | d. Domino Theory |
| Term used to refer to the tension between the US and Soviet Union from the end of WWII into the early 1990's. | a. Cold War |
| US and England dropped supplies for 15 months into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in order to take control of all of the city | f. Berlin Airlift |
| Alliance between the US, Canada, and Western Europe promising to come to the defense of any of the other members if attacked (especially by communist nations of the Warsaw Pact-Eastern Europe and Soviet Union) | h. NATO |
| Line dividing the Soviet Backed communist East Europe from the US backed democratic West Europe | e. Iron Curtain |
| Idea that the US could not fight a war against countries that were already communist but could prevent its spread to new countries | c. Containment Policy |
| Financial support given to Western Europe after WWII in order to prevent communist uprisings in these countries | g. Marshall Plan |
| Starts a second red scare -A irrational fear of communism sparked by the Cold War. | i. McCarthyism |
| Provides vets with job opportunities, money for school, job training, and loans for purchasing homes and property | n. GI Bill |
| children born in the years immediate following WWII | o. Baby Boomer |
| US blacks Cuba when the Soviet Union puts missiles in the country-2 point weapons at each other on the brink of war for 13 days until agree to: a nuclear test ban treaty, US recognition of Cuba, and a direct phone line between the 2 countries | k. Cuban Missile Crisis |
| The movement of whites into white suburbs when African Americans began moving into Northern Cities post WWII | p. White Flight |
| Promoted sciences and mathematics in US Schools to increase US competitiveness in these fields US Will lead the race with the Moon Landing | m. The National Defense and Education Act |
| Promise to contain communism in the Middle East | l. Eisenhower Doctrine |
| 24. How did the GI Bill affect the middle class? (did it grow or get smaller | grow |
| 27. How did WWII and The Great Depression impact spending in the United States in the late 40’s and 50’s? | spending and consumerism increased with their end |
| 30. List 3 causes of the Baby Boom | Economic Prosperity, End of WWII, End of the Great Depression |
| 34. What is this man to the left protesting? | Communism |
| 33. During the 1950’s and 60’s more white collar or more blue collar jobs were created? | white collar |
| 32. What (from the 1920’s)returned in the 1950’s with the invention of the credit card? | buy now pay later |
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