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Name_________________ MODERN AMERICA FINAL REVIEW GUIDE Directions: The following guide contains terms, people, dates, events, and concepts that students should be familiar with for their Final Examination. (General) Government Constitution – Bill of Rights – Amendment - House of Representatives – Senate – Electoral College – Electoral Votes required for winning presidency – (In the following three, write the duty of each and associate them with a building in Washington D.C.) Legislative Branch – Executive Branch – Judicial Branch – President’s cabinet – Secretary of State – Amount of Senators per state – PA electoral votes: PA amount of representatives: Representation in the House of Representatives is based on a state’s: Current President of the United States: Current Vice President of the United States: Behind the Vice President in the line of succession for the Presidency: Three levels of government: 1. 2. (be able to associate each with a location if asked) ex. Media is an example of which level of government? 1920’s Warren Harding – Calvin Coolidge – Herbert Hoover – “Roaring Twenties” – Prohibition – Speakeasies – Bootleggers – Harlem Renaissance – Jazz – 19th Amendment – Radio – Assembly line – 3. Model T – Suburbs – ________________________________________________________________________ 1930’s The Great Depression – Stock Market Crash of 1929 – Hoover’s policy toward the Great Depression – Credit – Foreign debt – Overproduction – Franklin Roosevelt – “New Deal” – Civilian Conservation Corps – Agricultural Adjustment Act – National Recovery Administration – Tennesee Valley Authority – AFL-CIO – ________________________________________________________________________ World War II What two things influenced U.S. foreign policy in the 1930’s? Axis Powers – Fascism – What economic situation helped give rise (allow to come to power) to the dictators? What is propaganda used for? Match the leader with a country: Mussolini: Hitler: Stalin: Franco: While World War II began, what did most Americans believe the focus of the government should be? Sudetenland – Munich Conference – Prime Minister Chamberlain – Policy of Appeasement (who was being appeased? what was the danger of this policy?): What “trigger” event marked the beginning of World War II? Blitzkrieg – Pearl Harbor – Battle of Britain – Battle of the Bulge – Yalta Conference – Harry Truman – Winston Churchill – Nagasaki – Hiroshima – D-Day – VJ Day – Holocaust – ________________________________________________________________________ 1946-1960 The Cold War – Containment Policy/Truman Doctrine – GI Bill – Marshall Plan – United Nations (purpose) – “Iron Curtain” – Berlin Airlift – NATO – Korean War: ____________ Korea invades __________ Korea in 1950. The South Koreans were helped by the __________ Nations. President Truman called the U.S. and U.N. action in Korea an __________ action. General MacArthur – What does Truman do to General MacArthur? Parallel separating North Korea from South Korea: Nuclear War – Dwight D. Eisenhower – McCarthyism – Civil Rights Movement NAACP – Rosa Parks – Thurgood Marshall – Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas – Martin Luther King Jr. – The Space Race – Sputnik – NASA – ________________________________________________________________________ 1960’s 1960 election – Between: Who wins: First televised debate between: Bay of Pigs – Cuban Missile Crisis – Nikita Khrushchev – Fidel Castro – Berlin Wall – Naval Blockade – Desegregation – March on Washington – Kennedy’s Assassination - Where? By who? Lyndon B. Johnson – “Great Society” – Civil Rights Act of 1964 – 1968 Assassinations (2 – listed below, who are they): RFK – MLK Kent State University – Vietnam War: President responsible for drastically escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam: U.S. supported: Which side was Communist: Date of the end of the Vietnam War: What president ends our involvement in Vietnam: Election of 1968 (winner) – SALT – First President to visit China – Watergate Scandal – Only President to resign the office of Presidency – Watergate Hotel – Sprio Agnew – Gerald Ford – Pardon – Bicentennial – Jimmy Carter – Camp David Accords – Iran Hostage Crisis – Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan – SALT II – ________________________________________________________________________ 1980’s Ronald Reagan – Reaganomics/Supply-Side Economics – New Federalism – John Hinckley Jr. – Sandra Day O’Connor – Challenger – Iran-Contra Scandal – Mikhail Gorbachev – George H.W. Bush – Jesse Jackson – Fall of Communism – ________________________________________________________________________ 1990’s Glasnost – Perestroika – Reunification of Germany – Boris Yeltsin – Vladamir Putin – Persian Gulf War: Iraq invaded: The U.S. and _______ helped liberate (free) Kuwait. Operation Desert Storm – Saddam Hussein – Bill Clinton – Al Gore – NAFTA – World Trade Center Bombing (1993) – Oklahoma City Bombing – New Millenium – Y2K – 2000 Election: Winner – Republican Candidate Democrat Candidate – Florida – Role of Supreme Court in 2000 Election – Important Dates you should be familiar with the events that occurred on these dates: September 11, 2001 December 7, 1941 October 1929
