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SPRING SEMESTER REVIEW 2011/2012
CHAPTER 13 Define/identify each of the following:
Buying on Margin
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While the economy of the 1920’s appeared to be booming there were indications of instability; list them
a. _____________________________________________________________________________________
b. _____________________________________________________________________________________
c. _____________________________________________________________________________________
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CHAPTER 14
List effects of the stock market crash of 1929:
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b. _____________________________________________________________________________________
c. _____________________________________________________________________________________
CHAPTER 15
Why did movies and radio become such big business during the 1930’s?
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List some of the long term effects of the New Deal:
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b. _____________________________________________________________________________________
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CHAPTER 17 Define/identify each of the following:
Internment
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Korematsu v United States
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Why caused the Battle of Midway to be a turning point in the war?
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CHAPTER 18 Define/identify each of the following:
Korea
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HUAC
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Joseph McCarthy
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McCarthyism
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Arms race
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Winston Churchill/iron curtain
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Containment
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What triggered the Korean Conflict?
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What did the Soviets do in 1949 that increased the tension between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
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What is the purpose of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
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List two effects of the Soviet launch of the satellite Sputnik:
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b. _____________________________________________________________________________________
CHAPTER 19 Define/identify each of the following:
Urban renewal
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AFL-CIO
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Inner city
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Jonas Salk
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GI Bill of Rights
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Baby boomers
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CHAPTER 20 Define/identify each of the following:
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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The Warren Court
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Affirmative action
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De jure segregation
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De facto segregation
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Pres. Truman used executive order to do what?
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What happened after MLK was assassinated in 1968?
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbid discrimination in employment based on _________________________
and _______________________________
Pres. Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect nine black high school students attempting to integrate a white
high school; in what city did this happen? _________________________________________________
CHAPTER 21 Define/identify each of the following:
What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion?
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The Berlin Wall
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The War on Poverty
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What did Pres Kennedy do to stop the completion of naval bases in Cuba?
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What countries are we talking about when we say “developing countries”?
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What was the purpose of the Warren Commission?
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What did the Warren Commission determine?
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CHAPTER 22 Define/identify each of the following:
Détente
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Henry Kissinger _______________________________________________________________________
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SALT I
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TET Offensive
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Vietnamization
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My Lai
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Agent Orange
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What did the 1954 Geneva Accords do?
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What did the Pentagon Papers reveal?
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What was the result of the Vietnam War?
Home
Vietnam
What was Nixon’s Cold War goal in normalizing relations with Communist China?
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How did the Ho Chi Minh Trail impact the TET offensive in 1968?
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CHAPTER 23 Define/identify each of the following:
Feminism
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Migrant farm workers
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Roe v Wade
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EPA
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What were the goals of NOW?
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What major event contributed to the creation of the counterculture of the 1960’s?____________________
CHAPTER 24 Define/identify each of the following:
Silent majority
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Gerald Ford
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Stagflation ____________________________________________________________________________
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United States v Nixon
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Camp David Accords
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Budget deficit
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What arguments did people make against affirmative action?
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What did Pres. Carter do to the Vietnam draft dodgers?
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Why was SALT II not ratified by Congress?
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Religious conservatives opposed 2 areas of Supreme Court rulings in the 1970’s—list them
a. ____________________________________
b. _________________________________________
CHAPTER 25 Define/identify each of the following:
Sandra Day O’Connor
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Reaganomics
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Supply-side economics
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SDI
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Operation Desert Storm
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Saddam Hussein
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New Right
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Savings and Loan Crisis
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What event symbolized the end of the Cold War?
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How did President Reagan strengthen the U.S. position in the Cold War?
a. _____________________________________________________________________________________
b. _____________________________________________________________________________________
How and why did liberals feel about the school voucher idea?
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CHAPTER 26 Define/identify each of the following:
NAFTA
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Oklahoma City bombing
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Bush v Gore
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No Child Left Behind Act
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War on Terrorism
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Why did Congress create the cabinet position Department of Homeland Security?
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Identify the following 20th/21st century Presidents from the clues given:
Took office in 1945 when FDR died in office. ________________
Sworn in on Air Force One after a president was assassinated in Dallas ___________________
Peanut farmer from Georgia elected in 1976.________________
First Republican president since Herbert Hoover elected in 1952 ______________________
2md President to be impeached in U.S. history____________________
Only president to take office without first having been elected to either office of president or vice president
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Youngest president ever elected. __________________
I promised to achieve “peace with honor” in Vietnam ____________________
Former movie star and governor of California _______________________
Oversaw Operation Desert Storm ________________________
Elected in 2000 after a highly contested election_______________________
1st African American president ______________________