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US History II Final Exam (Ch 15- Ch 24) Review
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places: Define the following
“Double V” campaign
internment camps
Liberty Ships
Rosie the Riveter
Victory garden
War bond
B. Identifying Main Ideas
1.
Why did President Franklin Roosevelt create the Office of War Mobilization?
2.
How did the government seek to guarantee profits for businesses engaged in war production?
3.
Provide an example of deficit spending during the World War II.
4.
What prevented Americans from spending the high wages they earned in wartime jobs?
5.
What was the overriding goal of the Office of War Information?
6.
Describe the demographics of women who went to work during wartime.
7.
Describe the effect that the war had on racial conditions in the United States.
8.
Describe the conditions African Americans faced in the North during the war.
9.
What led the government to evacuate Japanese Americans from the West Coast?
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
Douglas MacArthur
George C. Marshall
Winston Churchill
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Fidel Castro
Mao Zedong
Josip Broz (Tito)
B. Identifying Main Ideas
10.
Disagreements over which issue worsened post-war relations between the US and the Soviet Union?
11.
What is a satellite nation?
12.
What did President Truman promise in the Truman Doctrine?
13.
How did the Soviet Union react to the Marshall Plan?
14.
What was the Berlin airlift?
15.
What did the Soviet Union do in response to the formation of NATO?
16.
Members of the House Un-American Committee (HUAC) charged numerous Hollywood figures with
what “offense”?
17.
What was the outcome of the Korean War?
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
baby boom
Rosa Parks
Per capita income
integration
Jackie Robinson
B. Identifying Main Ideas
18.
What was an effect of business expansion after World War II?
19.
What was one long-lasting effect of the major highway-building projects of the 1950s?
20.
What did the beatniks of the 1950s promote?
21.
What happened in the US when the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957?
22.
What effect did conglomerates and the franchise system have on the American economy in the 1950s?
23.
What major effect did the transistor have on technology?
24.
What roles were most American women expected to fulfill in the 1950s?
25.
Why did Congress pass the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947?
26.
What did the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education?
27.
Why did President Eisenhower placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal command?
28.
How did President Eisenhower’s domestic policy reflect that of his Republican predecessors Coolidge and
Hoover?
29.
What role did Rosa Parks play in the struggle for equal rights?
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
Berlin Wall
Miranda Rule
B. Identifying Main Ideas
Great Society
Limited Test Ban Treaty
New Frontier
30.
What was the state of the American economy in 1960?
31.
Name three goals of the New Frontier program.
32.
Describe the failure of Kennedy’s domestic policy.
33.
What did the Warren Commission decide about the Kennedy assassination?
34.
What goal did President Kennedy committed NASA and the nation to in 1960?
35.
The Warren Commission declared that Kennedy’s assassination was the work of whom?
36.
What effect did Supreme Court decisions on apportionment bring about?
37.
Why did President Kennedy ask for a huge increase in military spending?
38.
What brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war?
39.
Describe the major guiding principle behind the foreign policies of Kennedy and Johnson.
40.
What did several of the important decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren
focus on?
41.
What did critics of the Great Society complain about?
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
Congress of Racial
Sit-in
Equality (CORE)
Freedom Rides
Civil Rights Act of
1964
De jure segregation
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Freedom Rides
B. Identifying Main Ideas
42.
How did the National Urban League help African Americans?
43.
In what way were the SCLC and CORE alike?
44.
In which state did Freedom Riders encounter violent resistance?
45.
What was the highlight of the March on Washington?
46.
What was the goal of the Selma March?
47.
Name a result of the civil rights movement.
48.
To achieve victory in the struggle for civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other members of the SCLC
encouraged a policy of what?
49.
What did Participants in the 1963 March on Washington hoped to accomplish?
50.
What happened after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
51.
What did the black power movement teach African Americans?
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
César Chávez
Latinos
a. Rachel Carson
a. Ralph Nader
B. Identifying Main Ideas
52.
In what ways did the civil rights movement help the women’s movement of the 1960s?
53.
What was a main goal of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the 1960s and 1970s?
54.
What tactic did the United Farm Workers (UFW) use in the fight for higher wages and improved
working conditions?
55.
Which issue was a top priority for Japanese American activists after World War II?
56.
How did the demands of Native American activists differ from those of other minority groups?
57.
What was a direct result of the publication of Silent Spring?
58.
What was the chief goal of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)?
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Vietnamization
deferment
My Lai Massacre
Escalation
Conscientious objector
Teach-ins
B. Identifying Main Ideas
59.
What was President Kennedy’s policy in Vietnam?
60.
Why did escalation of the war in Vietnam begin?
61.
What did American soldiers fighting in Vietnam have to cope with?
62.
Describe the purpose of saturation bombing.
63.
How was television instrumental in the US during the Vietnam War?
64.
Why did some Americans questioned the fairness of the draft?
65.
What did many conservatives do after Woodstock and Altamont?
66.
What ended the Vietnam War in 1975?
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
embargo
proliferation
OPEC
Deficit spending
détente
impeachment
SALT I
Watergate
B. Identifying Main Ideas
67.
What caused violence erupted at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago?
68.
Who was known for his objectivity, and stated that he believed Vietnam would end in a
stalemate?
69.
What issues did the Poor People’s Campaign led by Martin Luther King, Jr. focused on?
70.
Why did Hubert Humphrey fail to win total support from the Democratic party?
71.
What did OPEC’s 1973 embargo on shipping oil to the United States resulted in?
72.
What did President Nixon’s “southern strategy” include?
73.
What did President Nixon do to try to halt the inflation plaguing the country?
74.
The Plumbers and the Committee to Reelect the President were formed to accomplish what task?
75.
What was one outcome of the Watergate scandal?
76.
What was Nixon’s greatest accomplishment in foreign affairs?
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
Ayatollah Khomeini Gerald Ford
B. Identifying Main Ideas
incumbent
stagflation
77.
What was one of Ford’s first acts as President?
78.
What was the aim that Congress had in passing the War Powers Act?
79.
What was a major reason Jimmy Carter’s won the presidency in 1976?
80.
What did President Carter promoted as a cornerstone of his foreign policy?
81.
Why did Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy and take American hostages?
82.
What happened to deal nuclear energy a severe blow in the U.S.?
83.
What was President Ford’s program to overcome stagflation?
84.
What final step did Carter take to try to get the U.S, hostages released from Iran?
85.
What effect did the Bakke decision have on affirmative action?
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
Anwar el-Sadat
deregulation
Iran-Contra Affair
Strategic Defense Initiative
(SDI)
Supply-side Economics
Helsinki Accords
B. Identifying Main Ideas
86.
Why did conservatives criticize the New Deal and the Great Society?
87.
What was one major role in contributing to Ronald Reagan’s defeat of President Carter in 1980?
88.
Critics charged that President Reagan’s conservative policies led to what?
89.
During President Reagan’s second term, what happened to the United States relations with the Soviet
Union?
90.
What were two major components of Ronald Reagan’s economic plan?
91.
Describe President Reagan’s policy on military spending.
92.
How did the Soviet policies of perestroika and glasnost help bring an end to the Cold War?
93.
What was a major reason that President George Bush responded forcefully to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait?