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2024/2025Hist 173: Final (Essays/Terms)
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Examine the US during WWII
Why did the US enter WWII in December 1941? ANS✔✔ to defeat the Japanese for bombing Pearl
Harbor
- attacked b/c of the US oil embargo against them
- destroyed all 8 US fighter ships and most of the Pacific fleet
What impact did US entry have on the outcome of the war? ANS✔✔ US was able to provide as
much resources and manpower that the Allies needed
Militarily, what were the turning point battles in Europe? ANS✔✔ Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet
Union defeated Germany when Germany invaded the Soviet Union
Militarily, what were the turning point battles in the Pacific? ANS✔✔ US won the battle against
Japan in the Battle of Midway
How did the war affect American society on the home front? ANS✔✔ women were given
opportunities to work in industries.
What was the Cold War? ANS✔✔ a war between the Soviet Union and the US
Who "won" the Cold War? ANS✔✔ US; because even though the Soviets seemed to be so strong
they didn't accomplish the goal of having communism take over the world. Also by the end of the
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cold war more people had stopped supporting communism which led to the fall of the Soviet Union
and the berlin wall which was a symbol of the cold war.
What was America's central foreign policy during the Cold War? ANS✔✔ "Containment" of
communism
"Containment" of communism ANS✔✔ prevented the spread of communism abroad
Discuss the causes of the following moments when the Cold War turned "hot": Korean War
ANS✔✔ country was divided after WW2 by Soviet forces and Allied forces
- communist North Korea sought help from Soviet Union and People's Republic of china to expand
its borders
Discuss the consequences of the following moments when the Cold War turned "hot": Korean War
ANS✔✔ North Korea mounted an assault on South Korea
- Korean war created more friction between US and Soviet Union = proxy war
-North Korea carried out controversial nuclear tests and missile tests (missile range = South Korean,
Japan, Hawaii, and China)
Discuss the causes of the following moments when the Cold War turned "hot": Berlin Crisis
ANS✔✔ USSR demanded western powers pull their forces out of West Berlin = 3 year crisis =
berlin wall
Discuss the consequences of the following moments when the Cold War turned "hot": Berlin Crisis
ANS✔✔ there was a fence separating East and West Berlin, preventing them from fleeing from
East to West
- standoff on either side of wall created one of the tensest moments of the Cold War aka tanks aimed
at each other
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