GRADED A ACTUAL EXAM

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GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM )

Questions and Answers (Solved)

• Yalta Conference (1945)

Answer: Between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill. Confirmed what was

discussed in the Tehran Conference about setting up United Nations. Stalin promised to allow democratic elections in countries taken by Russia.Promise was broken, however.

• Internment Camps

Answer: Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans

were relocated during World War II by order of the President.

3. JACL

Answer: group of Japanese-Americans who worked to get restitution for the

losses they experienced during WWII internment camps

• GI Bill of Rights

Answer: a name given to the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, a 1944 law

that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans

• Cold War

Answer: A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The

nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

6. NATO

Answer: an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any

other country (Article V); US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

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• Truman Doctrine (1947)

Answer: Stated that the U.S. would support any nation threatened by

communism. Played a large role in the developing cold war with the Soviet Union. Helped set the stage for the Marshall Plan; BOTH essential for

CONTAINMENT

• Domino Theory

Answer: the political belief that if one nation comes under Communist

control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control (first expressed in George Kennan's Long Telegram)

• Iron Curtain

Answer: Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the So-

viet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West; A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

• Brinkmanship/Massive Retaliation

Answer: President Eisenhower's strategy which focused on nuclear weapons

instead of traditional military; the United States wanted USSR we're willing to go to war over anything

• Federal Highway Act

Answer: 1956-largest public works project in the United States history;

Eisenhower signed the law, which built over 40,000 miles of highways in the United States at a cost of $25 billion and created the interstate highway system; ostensibly to create routes for moving military supplies and for emergency evacuation in case of nuclear attack. The highway system made coast-to-coast driving a more common occurrence, and car-oriented vacations became a reality.

• The growth of interstate highways allowed for a demographic shift as

people vacationed, visited, and moved to areas in the south and southwest— the Sunbelt, from Florida through the deep South, all the way through Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

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