Monday, May 2, 2011

Chapter 27 & 28 Questions

9. Winston Churchill coined the phrase, it represented the Soviets taking control of east Europe, the "curtain" divided the west from the east.

11. The cold war is a war that where is is actually no fighting, people just prepare their armies to intimated people, and threaten each other.

13. It gave the returning GI's from war money to go to college, buy homes, or set up businesses.

15. There was no victory, more than 54,000 Americans died in the war and another 103,000 were wounded. Nearly 2,000,000 Koreans and Chinese died. We set up a demilitarized zone where no military was allowed, and it was a direct threat to the Soviets.

16. It was a congressional committee that investigated communism in America.

Chapter 28

5. Hawaii and Alaska

9. Fidel Castro

10. That traveling by plane was a great invention, it was fast and easy, it could carry more passengers father and faster. TV also became very popular. Businesses started using computers.

14. The people who weren't affected by poverty moved to the suburbs and the people who were stayed in the city, and lead to a high level of poverty in cities.

16. Nuclear weapons were more popular, you could use them and save most of the army. After bombing Japan the US could use the bombs to threaten other countries.

17. The people needed more cars because they lived in the suburbs and they were more spread out, Therefore they needed the cars to do errands and go to the store.

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