HIST 1150 FINAL EXAM 2 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Second Front - ✔✔the invasion of western Europe by the U.S ,British, and French in
1944. This invasion was to take presure off the Russians and divide the Germans. It
was established by the D-Day Invasion.
✔✔Blood Tax - ✔✔taxation in the form of people rather than goods or money,
(enslavement of people for tax)
✔✔Tripartite Pact - ✔✔1940 alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy.
✔✔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 of occupation after the war
✔✔Percentages Agreement 1944 - ✔✔Agreement between Stalin and Churchill on how
to split Europe up into spheres of influence, made public by Churchill.
✔✔was the percentages agreement formal - ✔✔no it was a preplan by stalin and swc
✔✔Yalta Conference - ✔✔1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime
Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for
post-war
✔✔ussr plan after yalta - ✔✔declare war on japan after nazi defeat
✔✔Potsdam Conference - ✔✔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.
✔✔what creates conflict following the fall of nazis and planning of japanese defeat -
✔✔truman learns of the atomic bomb
stalin demands in retaliation
✔✔Origin of the Cold War - ✔✔battle between capitalism and communism- Soviet
Union v. US- war of words & ideas rather than weapons- arms race & space race-US
increases $$$ spent on defense-war was avoided b/c of nuclear destruction
✔✔origin of the name cold war - ✔✔an article title detailing each nations lack of
aggression which would lead to total destruction
✔✔Pearl Harbor - ✔✔1941
, japan attempt to weaken us forces on west.
usa joins WW2 next day
✔✔who are german resources and factories given to after WW2 - ✔✔USSR
✔✔What happens after potsdam agreement - ✔✔General Lecius Clay stop resources
from entering USSR
Tensions rise
✔✔Bizonia - ✔✔Combination of British and US regions of Berlin, to which the French
zone was soon added
✔✔Marshall Plan (1947) - ✔✔A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn
economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern
Europe on condition they wouldn't go communist. Helped contain communism in Europe
and helped our economy as Europe bought from US businesses to rebuild
and ZERO TERRIFS
✔✔What was stalins opinion of marshall plan - ✔✔"economic imperialism"
✔✔Containment - ✔✔A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the
late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by
creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
✔✔soviet opinion of bizonia - ✔✔highly negative
Led to BERLIN WALL
threats that were going against potsdam and yalta meetings
✔✔Why is NATO formed? - ✔✔to fight communism
✔✔When was nato formed - ✔✔April 1949
✔✔Warsaw Pact - ✔✔RESPONSE TO NATO
treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind
the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary,
Poland, and Romania
✔✔Satellite Nations 1950s - ✔✔A country that is dominated politically and economically
by another nation.
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Second Front - ✔✔the invasion of western Europe by the U.S ,British, and French in
1944. This invasion was to take presure off the Russians and divide the Germans. It
was established by the D-Day Invasion.
✔✔Blood Tax - ✔✔taxation in the form of people rather than goods or money,
(enslavement of people for tax)
✔✔Tripartite Pact - ✔✔1940 alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy.
✔✔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 of occupation after the war
✔✔Percentages Agreement 1944 - ✔✔Agreement between Stalin and Churchill on how
to split Europe up into spheres of influence, made public by Churchill.
✔✔was the percentages agreement formal - ✔✔no it was a preplan by stalin and swc
✔✔Yalta Conference - ✔✔1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime
Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for
post-war
✔✔ussr plan after yalta - ✔✔declare war on japan after nazi defeat
✔✔Potsdam Conference - ✔✔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.
✔✔what creates conflict following the fall of nazis and planning of japanese defeat -
✔✔truman learns of the atomic bomb
stalin demands in retaliation
✔✔Origin of the Cold War - ✔✔battle between capitalism and communism- Soviet
Union v. US- war of words & ideas rather than weapons- arms race & space race-US
increases $$$ spent on defense-war was avoided b/c of nuclear destruction
✔✔origin of the name cold war - ✔✔an article title detailing each nations lack of
aggression which would lead to total destruction
✔✔Pearl Harbor - ✔✔1941
, japan attempt to weaken us forces on west.
usa joins WW2 next day
✔✔who are german resources and factories given to after WW2 - ✔✔USSR
✔✔What happens after potsdam agreement - ✔✔General Lecius Clay stop resources
from entering USSR
Tensions rise
✔✔Bizonia - ✔✔Combination of British and US regions of Berlin, to which the French
zone was soon added
✔✔Marshall Plan (1947) - ✔✔A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn
economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern
Europe on condition they wouldn't go communist. Helped contain communism in Europe
and helped our economy as Europe bought from US businesses to rebuild
and ZERO TERRIFS
✔✔What was stalins opinion of marshall plan - ✔✔"economic imperialism"
✔✔Containment - ✔✔A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the
late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by
creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
✔✔soviet opinion of bizonia - ✔✔highly negative
Led to BERLIN WALL
threats that were going against potsdam and yalta meetings
✔✔Why is NATO formed? - ✔✔to fight communism
✔✔When was nato formed - ✔✔April 1949
✔✔Warsaw Pact - ✔✔RESPONSE TO NATO
treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind
the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary,
Poland, and Romania
✔✔Satellite Nations 1950s - ✔✔A country that is dominated politically and economically
by another nation.
