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US II Final Exam Review Sheet
World War I
1. What were the 4 main causes of World War I?
2. Why was it difficult for the US to stay neutral during the war?
3. What was used to sway people’s thinking about the war?
4. What was the Zimmerman Note?
5. Why did the US pass the Selective Service Act?
6. What was the “Red Scare”?
7. What was the goal of the League of Nations?
8. What made the Treaty of Versailles harmful?
Roaring 20’s
9. What did Marcus Garvey promote?
10. What was the primary objective of the Harlem Renaissance Writers?
11. What was the Great Migration?
12. The Scopes trial highlighted the conflict between what two ideas?
13. What did mass production of lead to in the US?
14. What organization was formed to protect American’s civil liberties?
15. Why did the number of eligible voters increase in 1919?
16. How did the 1920’s change social behaviors?
Great Depression
17. Define “buying on margin”.
18. What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
19. What was the Dust Bowl? Why was it significant to the Great Depression? What
two things caused it? Who was most affected by it?
20. What was the Bonus Army? Why did they march on Washington?
21. What group suffered the most during the Great Depression?
New Deal
22. What program helped to restore faith in the banking industry?
23. What was the Result of the Tennessee Valley Authority?
World War II
24. Define appeasement.
25. Why were Japanese-Americans interned during World War II? Was it right?
26. What event was the official start of the war in Europe?
Cold War
27. Why was the Cold War fought?
28. What did Truman say in the Truman Doctrine?
29. What were the goals of the Marshall Plan?
30. What policy did the US and the Soviet Union have when it came to the use of
nuclear weapons?
31. What was the name of the committee that probed the government for Communist
infiltration?
32. Why did nations join NATO in 1949?
33. What was different about Truman’s Fair Deal and Roosevelt’s New Deal?
34. What did the baby boom contribute to?
1960’s and 1970’s Domestic and Foreign Policy
35. What was the Cold War philosophy that US believed in that said if one nation fell
to Communism, all would?
36. What congressional action gave President Johnson the authority to escalate the
Vietnam War?
37. After the Tet Offensive, how did Americans perceive the Vietnam War?
38. How did the Bay of Pigs invasion alter the world’s view of the United States?
39. Why was SNCC formed?
40. What were the major policy pieces to Kennedy’s New Frontier?
41. What were some of the initiatives of the Great Society?
42. What was the outcome of the publication of the “Pentagon Papers”?
43. Which country did President Nixon “open” to the United States?
44. How did television affect the Vietnam War?
45. What is Carter’s decision to pardon Vietnam draft dodgers an example of?
46. How did the Vietnam War finally end?
47. Which event led to the resignation of President Nixon?
48. How could the economy of the United States in the 1970’s and 1980’s be
described?
49. Describe the Camp David Accords.
50. What are some of the roles of the Presidency?
51. What was one of the major initiatives of the Jimmy Carter’s term as president?
Reagan and the 1980’s
52. What had happened to the United States as Ronald Reagan came to power?
53. Define “supply side economics”.
54. Why did the United States debt increase between 1980 and 1996?
55. What the similarities between the Spanish-American War and the Persian Gulf
War?
56. How did the breakup of the Soviet Union affect the US budget?
57. In the 1980’s what were more women doing than ever before?
58. How did the economy change in the 1980’s?
59. What is economic protectionism?
60. What are the major criticisms of affirmative action?
61. What is true about the women’s movement throughout American history?
62. What does the phrase, “a government of laws not of men” express the idea of?
63. Why was the US worried about the spread of nuclear weapons to India and
Pakistan?
1990’s and Today
64. How will the aging “Baby Boom” generation affect the United States?
65. Why did George H.W. Bush send troops to Iraq?
66. What were the results of the Persian Gulf War?
67. Why did the US cut defense spending in the 1990’s?
68. What does NAFTA say about the economies of the world?
69. What event is seen as the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Essay Topics
United States Foreign Policies Throughout the Class
United States Domestic Policies Throughout the Class