COLLEGE U.S HISTORY FINAL EXAM REVIEW PART 2 ACTUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS & 100% CORRECT ANSWERS

COLLEGE U.S HISTORY FINAL EXAM REVIEW PART 2 ACTUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS & 100% CORRECT ANSWERS Cold War Dates - Answer - Mao Zedong - Answer -communist leader who took control of China in 1949 Chiang Kai-shek - Answer -nationalist leader who opposed Mao and fled to Taiwan George Kennan/Long Telegram - Answer -Kennen was working as a foreign service officer in Moscow and wrote a telegram back to the department in which he called for a long-term strategy of resisting Soviet expansion while patiently waiting for the eventual collapse of the system from within. This became the basis of America's Cold War strategy of containment J. Strom Thurmond - Answer -long-serving Senator from South Carolina, famous for his defense of segregation Dixiecrats - Answer -popular name for the States Rights Democratic Party which broke away from Truman in 1948 when he began tosupport the idea of a civil rights bill. The Dixiecrats nominated Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Answer -became president after Truman, Republican, and brought an end to the Korean War, signed the Interstate Highway Act VP Richard Nixon - Answer -chosen for running mate to Eisenhower because he was known as a militant anti-communist. After accusations of illegally using campaign funds he gave his famous "Checkers Speech" which won him popular support Containment - Answer -foreign policy begun under Truman: America promised to prevent the spread of communism (as opposed to trying to eliminate it). This became the basis of American foreign policy for most of the Cold War Iron Curtain - Answer -the division between western Europe (mostly democratic/capitalist countries) and eastern Europe (the bloc of Soviet satellite states—communist and undemocratic) Berlin Airlift - Answer -US effort to supply the people of W. Berlin after Stalin closed land routes. The Soviet Union eventually backed down Truman Doctrine - Answer -the promise to send money to those resisting communism in Greece and Turkey (part of containment policy) Marshall Plan - Answer -plan to send $13 billion to western Europe to help them rebuild after WWII in order to prevent the communists from gaining popularity (part of containment policy) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Answer -a peacetime alliance for collective defense involving the US and other nations of theAtlantic designed to prevent communist aggression (part of containment policy). It is still in effect today: "an attack on one is an attack on all". The first time NATO allies invoked this motto to go to war was after Sep. 11, 2001. Taft-Harley Act - Answer -damaged weaker labor unions, made it harder for women or minorities who had never been members to join, and allowed states to pass "Right to work" laws that prohibited union shops in which workers could be required to join a union after being hired Fair Deal - Answer -Truman's campaign platform which pro