Download US History Final Exam Study Guide Chapter 12 What factors helped

US History
Final Exam Study Guide
Chapter 12
What factors helped hide the economic problems of the 1920s?
How did European countries react to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
What economic condition did economist John Maynard Keynes believe caused the Great
Depression?
What happened to urban unemployment rates at the beginning of the Great Depression?
How did Farmers contribute to the problems that led to the Dust Bowl?
Why did many Americans decide that the country needed new leadership in 1932?
Why were banks one of the first institutions to feel the effects of the stock market crash?
Why did African Americans and Mexican Americans have especially difficult time during the
Great Depression?
Chapter 13
What did Roosevelt and Congress pass the day after FDR’s inauguration?
What were the goals of the New Deal?
What were some of the criticisms of the New Deal?
What did President Roosevelt introduce to help retirees?
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What was the chief complaint of conservatives against the New Deal?
Why did Americans enjoy escapist films in the 1930s?
What effect did the New Deal Coalition have on the political make-up (Republican or Democrat
majority) of both houses of Congress?
Why did critics disapproved of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Chapter 14
How did the appeasement policy of the United States, Britain, and France effect Germany?
What restriction did the Neutrality Act of 1939 put in place regarding a nation at war that
bought arms and supplies from the United States?
Why was the League of Nations unable to prevent German and Italian aggression against other
nations?
After declaring war, what changes did the United States government make to our economy?
What effect did the war have on America’s economic situation?
Chapter 15
Why did Japanese Americans generally faced more restrictions than Italian or German
Americans during World War II?
What was President Truman’s chief priority in using the atomic bomb against Japan?
How did wartime pressures create a break from the past for women in America?
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How did population shifts change American life during the war?
How did Executive Order 9066 affect the civil liberties of Americans?
Which two nations emerged as the strongest following World War II?
What was the reason for the creation of The United Nations (U.N.)?
What effect did World War II have on African Americans and Civil Rights?
Chapter 16
How did the Soviet Union try to gain control over West Berlin?
What do NATO and the Warsaw Pact have in common? Why were they created?
What impact did the Korean War have government spending and future U.S. budgets?
What happened on September 2, 1949, that caused a sudden change in U.S.-Soviet relations?
What Cold War policies did President Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles,
believe were necessary in order to protect the United States and its allies?
What role did the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) play in the Cold War?
Why was J. Robert Oppenheimer investigated by the United States Government and denied
future access to classified information?
Why were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg charged, convicted, and executed by the United States
Government?
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What was the downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s downfall?
What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?
How did the Marshall Plan generate economic growth in the United States?
Chapter 17
Why did Americans migrate to the Sunbelt during the 1950s and 1960s?
How did the flight of the urban middle class to the suburbs hurt major urban cities?
Describe President Eisenhower’s approach to government when it came to federal spending,
existing New Deal programs, a strong or weak federal government, and the introduction of new
federal programs?
Between 1940 and 1960, how did the population of the suburbs change in America?
In large part, why did the U.S. Congress increase federal funding for education during this time
period?
How would you describe American Television programs during the 1950s?
What role did Rock-and-roll music play within American culture during this time period?
Social critics of the 1950s (an example would be the Beatniks) criticized America for what
reasons?
What social problems did Michael Harrington expose in his book, The Other America?
What factors contributed to the increase in Americans earning college degrees in the late
1940s?
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Chapter 18
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: What two specific activities are protected from discrimination?
What were Jim Crow laws?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Forbade discrimination in employment on the basis of what?
The conflict at Little Rock’s Central high School was a reaction to what court case?
How did the Black Panthers exemplify the idea of “black power”?
Essays: You will answer two of the three prompts below. I will let you know on the day of the
test which two you will answer.
1. Choose two of the issues from below and explain how New Deal legislation helped address
these issues.
 Unemployment
 Farming
 Banking and Finance
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2. Discuss the effects of the cold war on the American homefront during the period of the
1945 through the end of the 1960s.
3. Compare and contrast the role of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X within the civil rights
movement using the following criteria:
 view on race relations
 strategies
 results and legacy
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