Martin: American History
End-Of-Course Review
The Contemporary United States
Directions: from the Tennessee End-of-Course Coach, answer the following questions from the lessons listed
below.
Lesson #44: Recognize Differences Among the Allies After World War II pg. 140
1. What was the objective at Yalta?
2. What is a satellite nation? Why did Stalin need Poland to be a satellite nation?
3. How did the USSR get eastern European nations to become communist?
4. What did Churchill feel the Soviets admired? What did Churchill feel the Soviets respected least?
5. What was the Truman Doctrine?
6. What is the policy of containment?
7. What was the Marshal Plan? How did it work?
8. What is the United Nations?
9. What is NATO? What is collective security?
10. What did senior American diplomat to the USSR George F. Kennan warn the US ‘s policy must be
towards the Soviets?
11. What was the central problem for the Allied leaders who met at Yalta in February 1945?
a. The division of Berlin into four zones
b. The development and use of atomic weapons
c. The future of Poland
d. The organization of the United Nations
12. The goal of the Marshall Plan was to
a. Rebuild the war-damaged economies and societies of Europe
b. Reassert American authority over the Marshall Islands in the Pacific
c. Restore American confidence in the U. S. economy.
d. Draft a new constitution for Japan.
Lesson 45: Recognize Differences Among the Allies After World War II—Part II pg. 142
13. What did the Allies do with Germany after WWII? What did the Allies do with the city of Berlin?
14. Why did the Soviets close all land routes through eastern Germany to Berlin?
a. What was President Truman’s response to the blockade?
15. What responsibility did the Strategic Air Command have?
16. What is an arms race?
17. What is the difference between a thermonuclear weapon and the old A-bomb?
18. How many Americans died in the Korean War?
19. How was Korea different after the War?
20. In the history of the Cold War, 1949 was a notable year because of:
a. The Berlin Airlift and the first Soviet hydrogen bomb
b. The partition of Germany into four zones and the out break of the Korean War
c. The establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission and President Truman’s firing of
General Douglas MacArthur
d. The first successful test of an atomic bomb by the USSR and the establishment of a communist
government in China.
21. Which of the following accurately describes annual American defense spending in the period 1950-
1954?
a. It remained constant b. It decreased slightly.
c. It increased dramatically.
Martin: American History