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Chapter 35 Study Guide
1) What decisions were made at the Yalta Conference?
2) Explain the historic causes for hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union. How did
they differently envision a post-WWII world? Were there any similarities between the two?
3) ID: Bretton Woods Conference
4) ID: United Nations
5) ID: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
6) What challenges did the Allied powers face in Germany at the end of the war?
7) What were the causes and consequences of the Berlin airlift?
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8) ID: George Kennan
9) Define the doctrine of containment and the Truman Doctrine. What is the connection between the
two terms and why are they so significant?
10) Define the Marshall Plan. In what way does it represent Cold War policy?
11) ID: National Security Act
12) Define NATO. In what way does it represent a massive shift in traditional American foreign policy?
13) What changes did the United States institute in Japan as part of their post-WWII occupation?
14) Two big Cold War developments frightened the United States in 1949. What were they and why
were they significant?
15) What led to American intervention in Korea?
16) ID: NSC-68
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17) What led to the conflict between General MacArthur and President Truman? What was the outcome?
18) ID: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
19) How did Cold War tension manifest itself on the homefront? Were American fears legitimate?
20) ID: McCarthyism
21) ID: Executive Order 9981
22) Describe the American transition from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy.
23) ID: Taft-Hartley Act
24) What was the inspiration for the GI Bill and what was its impact?
25) What was unique about the course and outcome of the election of 1948?
26) ID: Fair Deal
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27) What were the causes and characteristics of the massive economic boom that started in the 1950s?
28) Where was the Sunbelt and why did it grow so rapidly in the post-war years?
29) ID: Levittown
30) Describe characteristics of life in the suburbs (make sure to read “Makers of America” on p. 844-855).
31) Define the baby boom. What were the long-term effects of this major demographic shift?
32) Read “Varying Viewpoints.” Explain how three different historical schools of thought have answered
the question, “Who was to blame for the Cold War?”
Chapter 36 Study Guide
1) How was the work force changing in the 1950s?
2) ID: The Feminine Mystique
3) Describe the consumer culture of the 1950s. Give specific examples.
4) What led to the election of Eisenhower in 1952?
5) ID: Checkers speech
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6) Contrast race relations in the North and the South during and after WWII.
7) ID: Montgomery bus boycott
8) What was the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education? What were the challenges in the
wake of this landmark decision?
9) What happened in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957? How did Eisenhower respond and why was this
significant?
10) ID: Southern Christian Leadership Conference
11) ID: Greensboro sit-ins
12) ID: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
13) Read “Makers of America- The Great African-American Migration.” What were the causes and
consequences of this significant demographic shift?
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*SPRING BREAK READING*
14) What trends are seen in Eisenhower’s domestic policy? What were his goals?
15) ID: Operation Wetback
16) ID: Federal Highway Act of 1956
17) ID: John Foster Dulles
18) What were the characteristics of Eisenhower’s “new look” foreign policy? How was it applied in
response to the Hungarian uprising of 1956?
19) Describe early American involvement in Southeast Asia. What was the significance of the Battle of
Dien Bien Phu?
20) What action did the CIA take in Iran in 1953? What were the short-term and long-term
consequences?
21) ID: Suez crisis
22) ID: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
23) What started the space race and how did the United States respond?
24) What events escalated Cold War tension at the end of Eisenhower’s second term?
25) What led to the election of Kennedy in 1960?
26) ID: “military industrial complex”
27) In what ways did art and literature of the 1950s and 1960s criticize trends of conformity and
consumerism in American culture? Give specific examples.
28) ID: Beat generation
29) ID: Southern Renaissance
30) What approach did Kennedy take to foreign policy as part of his “New Frontier”?
31) Describe the cause and impact of each of the following major foreign policy events during the
Kennedy administration: the Berlin Wall, Vietnam escalation, Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban Missile
Crisis
32) What was the Kennedy administration’s approach to civil rights?
33) ID: Freedom Riders
34) ID: Voter Education Project
35) ID: March on Washington
36) What was Kennedy’s legacy?
Chapter 37 Study Guide
1) What was Johnson’s Great Society and how did it represent an extension of the New Deal? Make a
detailed list of Great Society programs as you read through the chapter.
2) ID: Civil Rights Act of 1964
3) ID: War on Poverty
4) What were the issues and the outcome of the election of 1964?
5) What were the criticisms of the Great Society?
6) What was Johnson’s approach to civil rights?
7) ID: Freedom Summer
8) ID: Voting Rights Act of 1965
9) Compare/contrast the Black Power movement with the nonviolent approach that had preceded it?
10) ID: Black Panthers
11) Johnson massively escalated the Vietnam War. Provide specific examples of this change in American
involvement.
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12) What happened in the Tet offensive and how did Americans respond?
13) What was Johnson’s decision regarding the 1968 election and why? Who were the candidates and
what were the issues/outcomes of this significant election? What did it reveal about American
society in the late 1960s?
14) List examples of cultural change in the 1960s. What evidence was there of an emerging generation
gap?
15) ID: Stonewall Rebellion
16) ID: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
17) What was Nixon’s approach to the Vietnam War? What major events happened in Vietnam under his
administration?
18) ID: Nixon Doctrine
19) ID: Silent majority
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20) Why was the invasion of Cambodia so controversial and how did Americans react at home?
21) ID: Pentagon Papers
22) Define détente and provide examples of this Nixonian policy in action. Was it effective?
23) What trends were evident in the Warren Court decisions? Provide at least three specific examples of
cases that align with these trends.
24) What were Nixon’s domestic policy priorities?
25) Describe the evolving environmental movement of the 1970s.
26) ID: Silent Springs
27) ID: “southern strategy”
28) What were the causes and consequences of the War Powers Act?
29) What were the causes and consequences of the Arab Oil Embargo?
30) Read “Varying Viewpoints.” Explain how three different historical schools of thought have answered
the question, “The Sixties: Constructive of Destructive?”