Learning goals for New York State US History Regents Exam

1. Cold War Fact Sheet
US History
Name: Ms. Moskowitz
1. The GI Bill affected American society after World War II by extending educational
and housing opportunities for retuning soldiers.
2. As a result of the Interstate Highway Act of 1956, the United States experienced
increased suburban growth.
3. A controversial issue that resulted from World War II was the morality of nuclear
warfare.
4. Much fear was created by the Cold War. Many Americans built bomb shelters,
fearful of nuclear attack.
5. Before ratification of the 22nd amendment in 1951, most presidents served no
more than two terms because of custom and tradition.
6. President Harry Truman’s order requiring loyalty checks, and the Senate hearings
led by Joseph McCarthy, were both responses to fear of communist influence in
government.
7. A goal of the Marshall Plan (1948) was to provide economic aid to European
nations threatened by communism.
8. The Domino Theory is a theory that communist nations will spread communism to
other nations unless prevented by non-communist nations.
9. The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) were all part of the foreign policy of containment, which was
a policy to stop communist influence from spreading.
10.A major outcome of the Korean War (1950–1953) was that Korea continued to be
a divided nation.
11.The immediate impact of the 1957 launch of Sputnik I was that it heightened the
space race as a form of Cold War competition.
12.The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s was similar to the trial of the
Rosenbergs in the 1950s in that both trials were accompanied by nativist fears of
foreign influence in the United States.
13. The goal of President Harry Truman’s Fair Deal was to continue reforms begun
during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.