History 2112

Homework
Chapter 27 and 28

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2% of grade
200 points

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of our textbook. This is not an optional component and is counted as 10% of the grade with each
of the five assignments counting for 2% each.
This homework assignment will remain doable for two weeks through D2L after we discuss
the chapter in class. The general requirement for each assignment is to write at least one
complete sentence to answer each question or definition. However, you are encouraged to write
more as practice for the midterm and final exams. The textbook should be your starting point for
answering the questions.
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1 According to our reading, what was

happening during the 1930s in foreign
affairs?
2 How was the United States already at
war with German even before war was
declared?
3 Did the standard of living of the average
American citizen decline during the war?
4 What position did the U.S. Supreme
Court rule have toward Japanese
internment?
5 What is meant by the statement that the
Americans were horrified, but they
should not have surprised about the
Holocaust?
6 What important weapons of war were not
destroyed at Pearl Harbor?
7 How was the “Guadalcanal” action
repeated over and over again?
8 According to our textbook, what a reason
for why the future looked bright in late
1945?
9 Why was Poland such a difficult issue for
the Allies?
10 How had World War II caused a major
change in international politics?

11 How did Diplomat George Kennan feel

that the Soviet Union needed to be dealt
with?
12 What appeared to be happening to most
of Europe during the late 1940s?
13 Why was the Berlin Airlift a daring but
successful move?
14 What was point of President Truman’s
Fair Deal?
15 How was the U.S. involved with the UN
in the Korean mission?
16 How did television both make and hurt
Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist
position?
17 Why was the policy of massive
retaliation adopted by the Eisenhower
administration?
18 Why did Sputnik shock President
Eisenhower and the American public?
19 What evidence was used in Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka to help
overturn the “separate but equal”
doctrine?
20 What President Eisenhower concerned
about as he left office in late 1960?