What important issues created divisions between the Soviet Union and the United States at the end of the Second World War?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should see that the United States wanted democratic governments in Eastern Europe, but this was difficult for America to achieve because the Soviets had established hegemony there through occupation forces already in place. Within this context, the dispute over the future of Germany and Poland captured center stage. Good students will point out that advisers such as George Kennan argued that the Soviet Union was driven ideologically to seek the destruction of capitalist societies and, that the United States, in response, had to use its power to contain Soviet aggression. The outgrowth of these factors produced the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine. Better students will write that the Soviet blockade of Berlin seemed to vindicate American advisers' beliefs about the nature of the Soviet state.
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In the 1800s, Clara Barton founded the ________
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The largest and lowest social group in medieval society was the one on whose labor the welfare of all the others depended: the agrarian __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Which of the following occurred during Radical Reconstruction?
a. The passage of the Black Codes b. A permanent shift of Southern voters to the Republican Party c. The creation of a new industrial base in a majority of Southern states d. The formation of the Ku Klux Klan e. Widespread redistribution of confiscated land to former slaves
The 1969 Woodstock music festival was
A. formed to help heal the cultural divisions within American society. B. designed to make amends for the events of Altamont four months earlier. C. organized as a rally in protest to the Vietnam War. D. a powerful symbol of the ideals of the counterculture philosophy. E. held to establish cooperatives based on the principles of communal living.