Nuclear arms race - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Praxis II Elementary Education: Social Studies 5004 Already Graded A Lewis And Clark Expedition Commissioned by Thomas Jefferson, shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Supplied a great amount of detail for the map of northwestern U.S (which was sparse up until that time). Kept journals of their discoveries which Sacagawea was able to maintain. Treaty Of Versailles One of the peace treaties at the end of WWI. It ended the state war between Germany and Allied Powers. Signed on June 28, ...

Marshall Plan a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) Berlin Wall In 1961, the Soviet Union built a high barrier to seal off their sector of Berlin in order to stop the flow of refugees out of the Soviet zone of Germany. The wall was torn down in 1989. Containment Policy established by the Truman administration in 1947 to contain Soviet influence to what it was at the end of World War II. berlin airlift planes flew in food,fue...

Cold War 1945-1991 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. Joseph Stalin Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition Iron curtain A political barrier that...

Us history Period 8: Chapter 29: Limits of A Superpower [625 - 640] class notes summary/chapter 29 verified A+ Us history Period 8: Chapter 29: Limits of A Superpower [625 - 640] class notes summary/chapter 29 verified A+ Period 8: Chapter 29: Limits of A Superpower [625 - 640] Due Date: 4/30 - Vietnam War - The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - Gives LBJ authority to do whatever he wants to end conflict in Viet...

The cold war (1945-1991) The cold war was a 50 year struggle between the United States (a democratic nation) and the soviet Union (a communist nation) after World War 2. It is called a "cold" war because the United States and the soviet union never directly fought each other. Key events and the characteristic/features of the Cold war. After World War 2, the Soviet Union took over the small nations of the Eastern Europe and turned them into Communist satellites (i.e. nations dominated ...

Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS, 1954 Supreme Court ruling reversing the policy of segregation from Plessy v Ferguson, declaring that seperate can never be equal and a year later ordered the integration of all public schools with all deliberate speed Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public tr...

Cold War - Answer A state of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union without actual fighting. containment - Answer to restrict expansion of communism Viet Cong (VC) - Answer A Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam. Perestroika - Answer REFORM: an economic policy allowed some private ownership of businesses Glanost - Answer OPENESS policy that allowed people some free speech and freedom of pres...

Praxis II Elementary Education: Social Studies 5004 questions and answers latest top score. Lewis And Clark Expedition - correct answers.Commissioned by Thomas Jefferson, shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Supplied a great amount of detail for the map of northwestern U.S (which was sparse up until that time). Kept journals of their discoveries which Sacagawea was able to maintain. Treaty Of Versailles - correct answers.One of the peace treaties at the end of ...

IB HL History Paper 2 Cold War Actually 1943 - Katyn Massacre of Polish people dismissed by US and UK as German propaganda Feb 1945 - Yalta Conference, agreed Germany would be 'dismembered', couldn't decide on reparations, Poland, Stalin agreed to enter war against of Japan two or three months after German defeat, Declaration of Liberated Europe to help people solve political and economic problems, Stalin got 3 seats in the UN Mar 1945 - USSR violated Declaration of Liberated Europ...

Cold War Paper 2 IB exam questions evaluate the impact of détente upon US-USSR relations up to the end of 1979 - - détente was initiated by Nixon - was initiated due to dangers of nuclear war - relaxation of tension - each state was doing it for their own good USSR's reasons : 1. stagnating economy 2. to improve standards of living 3. transfer economic resources to consumer goods / import technologies from the west USA's reasons : 1. get USSR to pressure China to put pres...