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Harry S. Truman

US History II Finals Guide

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1 6/16/2009, 6/17/2009 U.S. History II Final Study Guide Question-and-Answer 1. What were three causes of the Great Depression? a. Stock market crash b. Uneven distribution of wealth c. High tariffs and other disruptions of world trade 2. What three things did Hoover do to try to end the depression? a. Gave tax cuts b. Higher tariffs c. A limited program of public works 3. What does the stock market ?crash? refer to? a. The huge drop in the value of stocks 4. What is the chronological order of the presidential administrations of the 1920?s and 1930?s? a. Harding b. Coolidge c. Hoover d. Roosevelt 5. What were three effects of the Great Depression? a. Millions unemployed b. Malnutrition in children c. Fewer marriages

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The Cold War The victors of WWII could not agree about the disposition of the postwar world President Roosevelt and Truman believed that European countries liberated from Germany should hold free elections. The ?Big Three? leaders met at Tehran (November 1943), Yalta (February 1945), and Potsdam (July 1945) to discuss war policy and the postwar situation Tensions and mistrusts among them were already evident before the fighting finished Stalin was determined to create a pro-Soviet zone in Eastern Europe. His armies were in place, enabling him to enforce his will. In the decades after WWII, the ?Iron Curtain,? a phrase coined by Winston Churchill, became both an economic and political dividing line

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