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Spring Final Exam Review
1. What was significant about the Election of 2000?
2. What did Reagan do to help the US Economy?
3. What were the basic principles of Clintons Healthcare plan?
4. What were Conservative Criticisms of the New Deal?
5. In what area did President Reagan INCREASE spending?
6. Who was helped and hurt by Reagan’s policy of deregulation?
7.
Critics allege that Reagan’s conservative policies led to what?
8. How did President George H. W. Bush deal with the Recession of the Early 1990’s?
9. What were beliefs and causes of “The New Right”?
10. What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?
11. What was the primary goal of Presidents Reagan’s policy in Nicaragua?
12. What notable banking scandal was a direct result of Reagan’s deregulation policies?
13. In what region of the world did Moscow’s hold first begin to crumble?
14. What was the cause of the Persian Gulf War?
15. What was the main focus of the 1992 Presidential Election?
16. What was the main purpose of NAFTA?
17. What is the 26th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution?
18. What president had a greater mandate from the American People (won the
presidency by a greater margin of victory) when elected: Kennedy of Johnson?
19. Why did the Watergate break-in occur?
20. List parts of Johnson’s Great Society.
21. List the outcomes of the Watergate scandal?
22. List conservative critics’ complaints of Johnson’s Great Society?
23. List the affects of Supreme Court rulings on Congressional district apportionment for
voters in America?
24. What was Nixon’s greatest achievement in foreign affairs?
25. What policy directed Johnson’s foreign policy decision making?
26. List the effects of the Tet Offensive on the American war effort in Vietnam.
27. How did Kennedy appear when compared to Nixon during the televised presidential
debates in 1960.
28. What did North Vietnam do after the last American fled Saigon?
29. Why was Johnson able to win the 1964 presidential election by a landside?
30. What did Nixon authorize at the same time he began pulling American troops out of
Vietnam?
31. What Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was in power when it was ruled that prayer
in public school was unconstitutional?
32. Who won the 1968 Presidential Election?
33. Describe Kennedy’s Vietnam policy during the early stages of the war.
34. List the issues that divided the country during the 1968 election.
35. List things American troops had to face to when fighting in Vietnam.
36. What prevented more Vietnamese civilians from dying at My Lai at the hands of
American troops?
37. How did television affect the Vietnam War?
38. What principle became the guiding force of American foreign policy during the
Eisenhower Administration?
39. Why did some Americans complain about the fairness of the draft during the
Vietnam War?
40. Who was the nationalist leader of North Vietnam during the war?
41. What took place at Kent State University?
42. Who are conscientious objectors?
43. What was the primary focus of the protest movement of the 1960s?
44. What advantages did the Viet Cong guerrillas have over U. S. troops during the war?
45. What event ended the Vietnam War in 1975?
46. What congressional resolution gave Johnson the authority to escalate the Vietnam
War?
47. What mission did Kennedy commit NASA to achieving before 1970?
48. Why was the SNCC formed?
49. Why were the freedom rides organized?
50. Why did MLK target Birmingham, Alabama for demonstrations?
51. To what group did the SNCC entrust decisions about priorities and tactics?
52. Describe the feelings of opponents to the civil rights movement after viewing
television images of the brutal police tactics used against protestors in Birmingham.
53. What group organized the SCLC?
54. What did the participants in the 1963 March on Washington hope to accomplish?
55. During the 1920s & 1930s, where did the NAACP have success in challenging
segregation laws?
56. How did Kennedy respond to the riot over James Meredith’s admission to the
University of Mississippi?
57. What was introduced during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
58. What was the highlight of the March on Washington?
59. List results of the civil rights movement.
60. In what state did Truman use the National Guard to end school segregation &
discrimination?
61. How did Malcolm X’s methods for achieving equality differ from MLK’s methods?
62. What Supreme Court case ruling ended the “separate but equal” doctrine?
63. What world leader’s beliefs on nonviolent protest were copied by MLK?
64. What was the goal of the March on Selma?
65. What was the result of the freedom riders being attacked in Alabama?
66. Describe the margin of victory Kennedy enjoyed over Nixon in the 1960 Presidential
Election?
67. How did James Meredith advance the end of the “separate but equal” doctrine?
68. Why did Kennedy at first move slowly on the issue of improving African American
civil rights?
69. Why was NASA created?
70. Who was Jack Kerouac and what book did he write?
71. How were Eisenhower, Coolidge, and Hoover domestic economic policies similar?
72. In the 1950s, why did many Americans return to the religion?
73. Describe Dr. Benjamin Spock’s beliefs about the role of women in society?
74. What causes did the “silent generation” hope to advance in America?
75. List the long lasting effects of the major highway building projects of the 1950s?
76. List the effects of the franchise system on local communities.
77. List results of the baby boom.
78. What factors made it seem as if Truman had little chance of winning reelection in
the 1948 Presidential Election?
79. What qualities did Americans seem to value above all others in the 1950s?
80. Why did Congress pass the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947?
81. What three issues did Eisenhower focus on in the 1952 Presidential Election?
82. Describe the lifestyles of the beatniks of the 1950s.
83. How did Rock-and Roll affect young people of the 1950s?
84. What role were American women expected to fulfill in the 1950s?
85. Why did credit cards become popular during the 1950s?
86. What effects did conglomerates and franchises have on the American economy of
the 1950s?
87. How did William Levitt contribute to the growth of suburbs?
88. Describe the growth level of the American Gross National Product after WW2.
89. What was the Truman Doctrine?
90. How did Kennedy believe he could foster stability in Latin America?
91. What did the House Un-American Activities Committee charge many Hollywood
personalities with promoting?
92. Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall?
93. What was the outcome of the Korean War?
94. How did the U. S. support the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba?
95. Describe the impact of Joseph McCarthy on American society?
96. Why did Kennedy ask Congress for massive increases in military spending?
97. What was an immediate result of the Truman Doctrine?
98. List effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
99. Why was the Berlin Airlift conducted by the U. S.?
100.
What did the Soviet Union do in response to Kennedy’s military build up?
101.
How was Korea divided after WW2?
102.
Upon what principle was the North American Treaty Organization founded?
103.
List results of the U. S. government’s hunt for communists.
104.
How did Truman react to the U.S.S.R’s deployment of am atomic bomb?
105.
What was emphasized by the Soviet Government when rebuilding Eastern
Europe?
106.
Why did the Soviet Union try to force the Allies to abandon Western Berlin?
107.
After the war, the Soviet Union quickly took control of which countries?
108.
What were the goals of the Marshall Plan?
109.
What was the goal of the leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, for post WW2
Germany?
110.
What caused Joseph McCarthy’s power to fade?
111.
What Soviet event of the 1950s led to increased funding from Congress for
teaching science and mathematics?
112.
Why did computer usage become more widespread in the 1950s?
113.
Because of its reliance on aircraft to carry nuclear weapons, what type of
technology did the U. S. lag behind the Soviet Union?
114.
How did 1950s television contribute to economic growth?
115.
What is the name of making the U. S. and its allies so strong that no enemy
would dare attack them for fear of retaliation?
116.
What was the major effect of the transistor on 1950s technology?
117.
What 1950s event led to fear and shock that America could be attacked by the
Soviet Union?
118.
What was Executive Order 9066?
119.
What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common during the 1930s?
120.
What ethnic groups’ civil rights were suspended during WW2?
121.
What country did Hitler invade after his successful invasion of Czechoslovakia
and his non-aggression pact with Stalin?
122.
What is propaganda?
123.
What was the name of the military strategy used by Germany when attacking
Poland in 1939?
124.
What was the Bataan Death March?
125.
Describe the Battle of Britain.
126.
What country had the most citizens and soldiers killed during WW2?
127.
Describe the purpose of FDR’s Lend-Lease program.
128.
What happened on May 8th, 1945?
129.
List medical advances that gave the Allies the advantage over the Axis Powers
during WW2.
130.
In what part of the world were the battles of Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, &
Midway fought?
131.
Why did FDR create the Office of War Mobilization?
132.
Who were the “code talkers”?
133.
What helped to bring America out of the Great Depression?
134.
What jobs did women assume because of the war effort?
135.
The Selective Training and Service Act required military service registration for
males between what ages?
136.
What WW1 creation did the U.S. turn toward to save resources & supplies for
WW2?
137.
Once America joined the war, what was the main war strategy that FDR and
Churchill agreed upon?
138.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
139.
Why did the U. S. declare war on Japan on December 8th, 1941?
140.
In what naval battle did the U. S. sink four Japanese aircraft carriers and
shoot down 250 planes?
141.
After the Allies gained control of Africa, where was their next target?
142.
What important idea came out of the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials?
143.
Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb on Japan?
144.
What was the German “final solution” to the Jewish question?
145.
Where did the complicated Allied invasion to take back Europe from the Axis
Powers take place?
146.
What action did the Nazis take to strip Jews of their German citizenship?
147.
What was the largest land battle fought in Western Europe during WW2?
148.
After WW2, what was the organization formed on the basis of the Atlantic
Charter?