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Name______________________________________________________________
Date________________________________________ Period____________________________
2017
U.S. History
Spring Final Review
1. Which of the following leaders transformed the Soviet Union from a rural nation into an industrial power?
2. What is genocide, as practiced by the Nazis?
3. On what did the German military strategy of “blitzkrieg” depend?
4. When did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement toward Germany?
5. Which of the following did Winston Churchill oppose?
6. Which group of people suffered 6 million deaths during the Holocaust?
7. Which nation(s) signed a nonaggression pact with Germany that led to the invasion and division of Poland?
8. In following a policy of appeasement, what did Britain and France do?
9. Name the politician for each nation.
Spain GermanyGreat BritainFranceSoviet Union10. The actions of which country finally forced the United States to enter the war?
11. At the end of World War I, many new democracies were established in Europe. In the years between the two world
wars, what happened to most of these democracies?
12. Which treaty did Adolph Hitler oppose?
13. How were Britain and France drawn into war with Germany?
14. What happened during the Battle of Britain?
15. Who or what did President Roosevelt describe as "the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic"?
16. What caused militarist leaders to gain control of the Japanese government in the early 1930s?
17. On which issue did Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini disagree?
18. Identify which nation was invaded by each nation listed below during the 1930s?
ItalyGermanySoviet UnionJapan-
19. What were Roosevelt's feelings toward joining the war?
20. What was the Lend-Lease Act?
21. The problem of ___ was targeted by the Office of Price Administration.
22. To protest discrimination, ___ organized a march on Washington on July 1, 1941.
23. General ___ led the Third Army into Paris to liberate the city from German occupation.
24. The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the ___.
25. The Allied invasion of ___ was given the code name D-Day.
26. V-E Day, or May 8, 1945, was the day when ___.
27. When forced to abandon the Philippines, ___ made the vow, "I shall return."
28. Truman's aim in deciding to drop the atomic bomb was to ___.
29. Nisei who lived on the West Coast were subjected to ___ during the war.
30. With respect to finding better jobs, the war years marked a period of ___ for African Americans.
31. To combat wartime inflation, what did the U.S. Government do?
32. During the war, women in the WAACs served as
33. Germany's goal in the Battle of the Atlantic was to
34. The Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in Europe was
35. What contributed to a Soviet victory in Stalingrad?
36. The general who led Allied troops in battles on the islands of Bataan, Leyte, and
Iwo Jima was
37. The GI Bill of Rights made it possible for
38. Roosevelt's decision to move people of Japanese ancestry to camps was a response to
39. How did Hitler die?
40. What were the names of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
41. What was the United Nations (UN)?
42. What was containment?
43. What did the phrase “iron curtain” stand for?
44. What was the Truman Doctrine?
45. What was the goal of the Marshall Plan?
46. Why was the location of Berlin a problem to the Western Allies?
47. How did the Allies combat the closing of the roads to Berlin by the Soviet Union?
48. What was the purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
49. How were the Communists able to take over China?
50. What event started the Korean War?
51. Who joined the side of the North Koreans?
52. What extreme response did MacArthur suggest against China?
53. At the end of the Korean War, what did both sides agree on?
54. What was the purpose of the Loyalty Review Board?
55. What was HUAC?
56. What happened to the people who were blacklisted?
57. Why were the Rosenbergs executed?
58. What claim did Senator Joseph McCarthy make?
59. What did the term “McCarthyism” mean?
60. What was brinkmanship?
61. What was the Soviet’s response to NATO?
62. What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?
63. What happened in Hungary when they called for a democratic government?
64. How was Khruschev’s policy different from Stalin’s?
65. What was “Sputnik” and who launched it?
66. What was the U-2 and what happened to it?
67. What was the name of the housing development that used assembly line methods to make affordable housing in the
suburbs?
68. What was the baby boom?
69. What is a franchise?
70. Who is Dr. Jonas Salk?
71. What did Dr. Benjamin Spock advise parents in his guidelines?
72. What effect did the new highway system have a new towns and old towns?
73. What is “planned obsolescence?
74. What was the Beat Movement?
75. Which group of Americans did rock n’ roll appeal to?
76. What were the effects “white flight” had on the cities?
77. Who were the two candidates in the Election of 1960?
78. What were the obstacles Kennedy had to overcome in the 1960 election?
79. How was politics changed after the 1960 live debate?
80. Who took over the Cuban government in 1959?
81. Who trained the Cuban exiles to invade Cuba?
82. Who supported the Cubans at the Bay of Pigs?
83. What was the US Navy going to do to prevent Soviet ships from bringing more missiles to Cuba?
84. What agreement did the U.S. and the Soviet Union come to about the Cuban Missile Crisis?
85. Why were East Germans fleeing to the West?
86. What did Kruschev build August 13, 1961?
87. What is the Peace Corps?
88. Who was charged with the murder of the President?
89. Who took the oath of office as the new President?
90. What happened to the man who killed Kennedy while being transferred to another jail?
91. Which of the following affirmed the legality of racial segregation and prompted the
passage of Jim Crow laws?
92. Which doctrine relating to public education was overturned by the Supreme Court
decision in “Brown v. Board of Education”?
93. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation illegal in which of the following?
94. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 enable federal officials to do?
95. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned discrimination in which activity?
96. Appealing to many African Americans' anger and frustration over a lack of social and
economic power, ___ preached a militant approach to civil rights.
97. ___ was the United States' main goal in Vietnam.
98. ___ served as the commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam.
99. In the early years of the war, a young man could automatically be deferred from the
draft by ___.
100. After World War II, the United States aided ___ in its efforts to keep control of
Vietnam.
101. ___ enabled North Vietnam to send troops to South Vietnam.
102. César Chávez used nonviolent means to organize Mexican-American
103. The event that was most responsible for Chávez's group gaining negotiating power
was ___________________________.
104. Phyllis Schlafly became well known for her efforts to
105. The members of the counterculture movement were mostly
106. Conservatives placed the blame for the increasing permissiveness in society on
107. The conservative reaction to the counterculture was...
108. This famous music group helped propel rock n’ roll into mainstream America…
109. Who was the Latin American Organization that fought for desegregation of schools and the right for MexicanAmericans to serve on juries?
110. The Vietcong practiced ______________ warfare due to lack of high powered weaponry.
111. Where was the Vietnam War protest that ended in four college students being shot and killed?
112. What happened to Robert Kennedy in 1968?
113. What was vietnamization?
114. Define the War Powers Act.
115. The Tet Offensive, the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
happened in the year, ______________.
Identify the following people/events:
116. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
117. Malcolm X
118. Thurgood Marshall
119. John F. Kennedy
120. Gloria Steinem
121. Stokely Carmichael
122. Lyndon B. Johnson
123. Betty Friedan
124. Rosa Parks
125. Dwight D. Eisenhower
126. Ho Chi Minh
127. Richard Nixon
128. Tet Offensive
129. Agent Orange
130. Free Speech Movement
131. National Organization for Women (NOW)
132. Woodstock
133. Haight-Ashbury
134. American Indian Movement (AIM)
135. New Right
136. Watergate Scandal
137. Gerald Ford
138. Jimmy Carter
139. Ronald Reagan
140. George H.W. Bush (Senior)
141. Sandra Day O’Connor
142. “No Child Left Behind”
143. Bill Clinton
144. George W. Bush (Junior)
145. Barack Obama
146. World War II
147. Vietnam
148. Cold War
149. World War I
150. Gulf War