[HIS 150] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 25 pages long Study Guide!

• School: West Chester University
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 150
• Professor: Brent Ruswick

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The ussr = soviet union = russia plus a bunch of smaller states. 1945-1953) (cid:498)cold war(cid:499) (cid:883)947-1989 (cid:498)containment(cid:499) george kennan, 1947. Marshall plan 1948 (hitm 42) What to do about germany (cid:498)losing(cid:499) china (cid:883)949. Warsaw pact, 1955: berlin blockade, 1948, berlin airlift, 1948-49. More adventures in containment (eisenhower rep. - 1953-1961) - (hitm 44) Iran, overthrowing the prime minister, installing the (cid:498)shah(cid:499) 1953. Meanwhile : ussr in hungary, 1956, united fruit company. Strange history of pledge of allegiance. (kennedy dem - 1961-1963) Containing cuba - castro: operation mongoose, bay of pigs april 1961 (hitm 46, cuban missile crisis oct 1962. Who (cid:498)won(cid:499): revolutionary nationalists who happen to be communists . Ho chi minh, independence from japan - 1945. French efforts to keep as a colony. Propping up the anticommunist govt. (cid:498)domino theory(cid:499) (lyndon johnson dem 1963-9) Gulf of tonkin (cid:498)incident(cid:499) august (cid:884) (cid:883)964 (hitm 48) Goes poorly the minute we take it over.