AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 8 exam with complete solution
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Course
History
Institution
History
Big Three
allies during WWII; Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom - Churchill, United States - Roosevelt
Tehran Conference
First major meeting between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to divide Germany into zones o...
AMSCO AP World History Modern- Unit 8
exam with complete solution
Big Three - ANSWER-allies during WWII; Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom -
Churchill, United States - Roosevelt
Tehran Conference - ANSWER-First major meeting between the Big Three (United
States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to
divide Germany into zones of occupation after the war
Yalta Conference - ANSWER-1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime
Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for
post-war
Potsdam Conference - ANSWER-July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and
Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if
they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction.
Harry Truman - ANSWER-Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop
the atomic bomb
Cold War - ANSWER-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.
Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) - ANSWER-34th PRESIDENT: 1953 to 1961
(Republican)
A two term president, he is forever associated with the prosperity of the 1950s. A five-
star Army general and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during
WWII, he reluctantly chose Richard Nixon as his Vice President. He was the first "term-
limited" president in accordance with the 22nd Amendment. He was a skillful politician,
a tough Cold War warrior, and one of America's most misunderstood and unappreciated
presidents.
, Self-determination - ANSWER-Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern
themselves
Hydrogen Bomb (H-Bomb) - ANSWER-New nuclear weapon even more destructive
than the atomic bomb
military-industrial complex - ANSWER-Eisenhower first coined this phrase when he
warned American against it in his last State of the Union Address. He feared that the
combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the
military would lead to excessive Congressional spending.
United Nations (UN) - ANSWER-an organization of independent states formed in 1945
to promote international peace and security
Iron Curtain - ANSWER-A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe
after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
Satellite Countries - ANSWER-Countries bordering USSR that Soviets made
Communist to have "friendly ring of countries"
World revolution - ANSWER-Marx believed that communism would come about only
through a world wide revolution to end class conflict
Containment - ANSWER-American policy of resisting further expansion of communism
around the world
Truman Doctrine - ANSWER-1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic
and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly
helped Greece and Turkey
Non-Aligned Movement - ANSWER-The group of nations that didn't side with either the
US or the USSR during the Cold War.
Mutual Assured Destruction - ANSWER-idea that both sides would face certain
destruction in a nuclear war
Sputnik - ANSWER-First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957
and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the
creation of NASA and the space race.
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