HST 2025 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
(Lecture) correctly solved (passed)
Look at the map on the title page. What parts of the world were included in the First World?
The Second? The Third? What defines these regions? - correct answer ✔✔First World = US
Second World = Russia/China Region
Third World = Mexico/South America
First world: Australia, Western Europe, and Japan
Second world: communist Soviet Union and Eastern European Satellites
Third World: Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia.; ""up for grabs" so US and USSR prop
up client states or puppet
The US and Soviet Union had competing goals after WWII. What political and economic systems
did each side want to spread? - correct answer ✔✔-After WWII, the US wants to remake the
world through capitalism and democracy, while the USSR seeks to spread communism and
autocracy
-The Third World is "up for grabs" so US and USSR prop up client states or puppet regimes
In terms of the origins of the Cold War, in what three regions did the US and USSR clash? How
were their goals different in each region? - correct answer ✔✔Eastern Europe: Soviets want
buffer zone
Western Europe: US gives Marshall Plan aid
Germany: a strong or weak state?
,The Soviet Union established puppet regimes or client states in eastern Europe. What did the
United States do in western Europe? - correct answer ✔✔The Third World is "up for grabs" so
US and USSR prop up client states or puppet regimes
NATO and Warsaw Pact form 1949; Article V: attack one is an attack on all; Russian tanks put
down revolts in 1956, 1968, and 1981
In Europe, the so-called "Iron Curtain" divided the pro-US western bloc from the pro-Soviet
eastern bloc
Look at the map in blue and red. What countries were part of NATO? What countries were part
of the Warsaw Pact? - correct answer ✔✔NATO: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland,
Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United
States. The other member countries are: Greece and Turkey (1952), Germany (1955), Spain
(1982), the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), and Montenegro (2017).
Warsaw Pact: Albania (until 1968), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany (until 1990),
Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
From 1949 - 1953, there were at least three major setbacks for US foreign policy. What were
they? How did these connect with domestic policy? - correct answer ✔✔-Mao Tse Tung and
communists took over China in 1949
-Soviets developed the atomic bomb
-Korean War, 1950-1953
, -Creates atmosphere of heightened anxiety at home (foreign policy linked with domestic; ex:
McCarthyism)
What were the three institutions that were connected in the military-industrial complex? -
correct answer ✔✔Defense Department, Military Contractors, and Universities
What companies were part of the military-industrial complex? - correct answer ✔✔Lockheed,
Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon
What concerns were raised by the military-industrial complex? - correct answer ✔✔Concerns?
Will the profit motive lead us to unnecessary wars? How do you reconcile liberty and
democracy with large military?
Think of English liberty and 2nd and 3rd Amendments
President Eisenhower's speech, 1961
What were the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947? - correct answer ✔✔Prohibited
certain forms of labor strikes, banned radicals from union leadership, and allowed states to pass
"right to work" laws
In what part of the government did Truman order loyalty oaths? - correct answer ✔✔Truman
ordered them for the federal bureaucracy
Who implemented loyalty oaths in California? - correct answer ✔✔-UC Regents imposed loyalty
oath, 1949-51
-31 professors dismissed
(Lecture) correctly solved (passed)
Look at the map on the title page. What parts of the world were included in the First World?
The Second? The Third? What defines these regions? - correct answer ✔✔First World = US
Second World = Russia/China Region
Third World = Mexico/South America
First world: Australia, Western Europe, and Japan
Second world: communist Soviet Union and Eastern European Satellites
Third World: Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia.; ""up for grabs" so US and USSR prop
up client states or puppet
The US and Soviet Union had competing goals after WWII. What political and economic systems
did each side want to spread? - correct answer ✔✔-After WWII, the US wants to remake the
world through capitalism and democracy, while the USSR seeks to spread communism and
autocracy
-The Third World is "up for grabs" so US and USSR prop up client states or puppet regimes
In terms of the origins of the Cold War, in what three regions did the US and USSR clash? How
were their goals different in each region? - correct answer ✔✔Eastern Europe: Soviets want
buffer zone
Western Europe: US gives Marshall Plan aid
Germany: a strong or weak state?
,The Soviet Union established puppet regimes or client states in eastern Europe. What did the
United States do in western Europe? - correct answer ✔✔The Third World is "up for grabs" so
US and USSR prop up client states or puppet regimes
NATO and Warsaw Pact form 1949; Article V: attack one is an attack on all; Russian tanks put
down revolts in 1956, 1968, and 1981
In Europe, the so-called "Iron Curtain" divided the pro-US western bloc from the pro-Soviet
eastern bloc
Look at the map in blue and red. What countries were part of NATO? What countries were part
of the Warsaw Pact? - correct answer ✔✔NATO: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland,
Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United
States. The other member countries are: Greece and Turkey (1952), Germany (1955), Spain
(1982), the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), and Montenegro (2017).
Warsaw Pact: Albania (until 1968), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany (until 1990),
Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
From 1949 - 1953, there were at least three major setbacks for US foreign policy. What were
they? How did these connect with domestic policy? - correct answer ✔✔-Mao Tse Tung and
communists took over China in 1949
-Soviets developed the atomic bomb
-Korean War, 1950-1953
, -Creates atmosphere of heightened anxiety at home (foreign policy linked with domestic; ex:
McCarthyism)
What were the three institutions that were connected in the military-industrial complex? -
correct answer ✔✔Defense Department, Military Contractors, and Universities
What companies were part of the military-industrial complex? - correct answer ✔✔Lockheed,
Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon
What concerns were raised by the military-industrial complex? - correct answer ✔✔Concerns?
Will the profit motive lead us to unnecessary wars? How do you reconcile liberty and
democracy with large military?
Think of English liberty and 2nd and 3rd Amendments
President Eisenhower's speech, 1961
What were the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947? - correct answer ✔✔Prohibited
certain forms of labor strikes, banned radicals from union leadership, and allowed states to pass
"right to work" laws
In what part of the government did Truman order loyalty oaths? - correct answer ✔✔Truman
ordered them for the federal bureaucracy
Who implemented loyalty oaths in California? - correct answer ✔✔-UC Regents imposed loyalty
oath, 1949-51
-31 professors dismissed
