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Quick Exam Review

Key topics

• I have 3 nieces and 1 nephew (5, 6, 8, 12)
• I want to take 2 nieces (5, 8) horseback riding as a XMAS present
• Do you think the other niece and nephew will be upset if I don’t take them?
• Would they like one of those giant blow up balls that you can get inside?

• Protective tariff
• Designed to help industry in the North
• Opposed by Southerners

• Civil Service Reform

• After WWII: This was designed to help the economies in Europe which were devastated by war

Containment: U.S. foreign policy that wanted to contain communism (not let it spread)

• Why did U.S. get involved in Vietnam War? Contain communism!

• Korea is still divided? Remember, North and South Korea.

• Rosie the Riveter: propaganda persona to encourage women to come to work in factories.
• Shows women as feminine yet strong
• Symbolizes women entering the workforce
• After WWII, women may have resisted a return to being a ‘homemaker’

• What do Berlin, Korea, Germany, and Vietnam have in common?
• All divided as a result of WWII

Battle of Britain: air battle over Britain b/w Germany and…Britain

• Battle of Coral Sea: cut off resources for Japan
• 1941: Germany invades Soviet Union
• D-Day: Omaha Beach 1944

• Why did U.S. want to join the United Nations at the end of WWII?
• If there was to be world peace—U.S had to be involved

Truman: president who made decision to drop atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Prior to dropping atomic bomb: there were many fire bombings in Japan by the U.S.

• Manhattan Project: plan to develop atomic bomb
• Rationing: used to keep resources available for military
• Controlled by Office of Price Admin.
• GI Bill: help soldiers get education and more career opportunities

Leader of Allied forces in Europe during WWII?

• Eisenhower