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GHIS Intro Assignment:
Reading; “From Hot War to Cold War 1942-1949”
In 6-8 (each) sentences please answer the
following:
1. What allowed the allies to dictate the
course of the war after the winter of
1942-43? How did this help to establish a
shift away from traditional European
powers (i.e. Britain & France) to more
modernized and industrialized states (The
United States & Russia for example) and
set the stage for the latter half of the
twentieth century?
2. How did America come to be so dominant
on the global stage? How did the war
make the U.S. into a manufacturing nation?
What role did manufacturing play in the
growth of the U.S. as a world power and
as a source for armaments for the Allies?
3. As a counter-point to U.S. industrialized
gains—what happened to the European
powers that had to buy these weapons?
While answering keep in mind that they
didn’t have the luxury that the United
States did in terms of territorial security
(despite Pearl Harbour) and the amount of
damage caused by bombing and other
military actions.
4. Why do you think that the Allies were
unwilling to reach a settlement with Hitler’s
Germany this time? What lessons had been
learned?
5. Why do you think that Churchill, when
meeting with Roosevelt decided on a
“Europe First” strategy? Was it purely
selfish? What were his imperialist plans for
the Mediterranean and Southern Europe?
Did you feel that the States, a country that
had fought a war against Britain’s
Imperialism, would have aided this goal?
6. Why is operation TORCH significant?
7. Describe (in chronological detail) the major
events of D-Day. Please use outside
research to complement the text.
8. Discuss the rise of Soviet power in Eastern
Europe. How did a country that was
believed to be on the verge of collapsing
pre-1941 grow into a global superpower?
Why is Russia so hard to invade?
9. How did Russia’s population play a role in
the war against the Nazis? As a follow
up—how did communism (and nationalism)
play a role in getting people to buy into
this approach? How did Germany’s brutal
occupation of Soviet territory help to
galvanize the support of the Russian
people?
10. When Stalin and the other allies formed
an alliance material aid was given/sold to
Russia? How did this help to contain the
Germans and to bolster the Allied cause
(think in terms of geography)? Discuss this
in terms of Allied and Soviet gains
explored on 489-90.
11. What was the point of the Teheran
Conference? What issues did it resolve?
Which issues did it create? How did it
differ from the Yalta Conference?
12. How did the Second World War End?
Given the nature of atomic warfare, what
(in your opinion) was the message that the
United States was sending to the world?
How did it make the alliance with the
Soviets unnecessary (498)?
13. Discuss in a paragraph the aims of the
founding nations of the United Nations—
whose perspective was being promoted?
14. The Potsdam conference was part of a
major shift occurring in the post-war world.
How did the issues faced by this
conference set the stage for the Cold
War?
15. In a page+ define and outline the nature
of the Cold War—how did it come to set
the stage for the remainder of the 20th
century? In a T-Chart list and discuss the
similarities and differences between
American and Russian peacetime goals
(also, link all of this to the Truman Doctrine
[512]).
16. What role did Poland play in the early
antagonism in the Cold War period—why
did both sides care so much?
17. Explain the way in which Germany served
as a physical microcosm of the cold war.