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US History – Honors
Unit 8 (Ch. 24-27): Hot and Cold War (1931-1960)
Mr. Stamcoff
Total = 80 pts
Define the following terms – 1 pt each (Total = 50 pts)
Totalitarian
Fascism
Nazisim
Axis Powers
Appeasement
Allies
Manchurian Incident
Puppet state
Neutrality Acts
Cash and carry
America First Committee
Lend-Lease Act
Office of War Mobilization
Atlantic Charter
Carpet bombing
D-Day
Holocaust
Concentration camp
Death camp
Kamikaze
Manhattan Project
Bracero
Satellite nation
Iron curtain
Containment
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
HUAC
Blacklist
Military-industrial complex
McCarthyism
Arms race
Deterrence
Brinkmanship
ICBM
U-2 incident
Per capita income
Conglomerate
Franchise
Transistor
Baby boom
GI Bill of Rights
Beatnik
Reconversion
Taft-Hartley Act
Modern republicanism
NASA
National Defense Education Act
Study Questions – 2 pts each (Total = 30 pts)
Ch. 24
1) (a) How did Hitler come to power in Germany? (b) How did Mussolini come to power in Italy?
2) Describe the relationship between the military and the civilian government in Japan in the 1930s.
3) (a) What characteristics did fascism under Mussolini and Hitler have in common with
communism under Stalin? (b) What are two important differences between fascism and
communism?
4) Why didn’t Roosevelt declare war on Germany in 1939?
Ch. 25
5) How did World War II end the Depression?
6) What changes took place in the kinds of jobs women held before and during World War II?
7) Why were there shortages of sugar, coffee, and gasoline during World War II?
8) Why did military planners believe that an attack on Japan would be much more costly and
dangerous than the D-Day invasion and eventual defeat of Germany?
Ch. 26
9) What decisions were reached at Yalta and Potsdam?
10) How did the United States hope to use the policy of containment and the Truman Doctrine to
respond to the Soviet creation of an iron curtain?
11) How did the Cold War play out in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America?
12) Explain how the differing ideologies of the Soviets and the United States were reflected in their
Cold War policies.
Ch. 27
13) What was the model middle-class lifestyle of the 1950s? Give examples showing how the media
fostered expectations of “the good life.”
14) Which technological advance of the 1950s—atomic energy, computers, or television—do you
think has had the most far-reaching impact on the way Americans live? Explain why you think
so.
15) What economic changes occurred in the United States from 1945 to 1960? Explain why the
changes occurred.