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(2nd
U.S. HISTORY EOC REVIEW PART II
½ OF EOC MATERIAL: WWII THROUGH NEW MILLENIUM)
To review for your EOC exam, go back through your handouts, notes, & textbook and
answer the following questions below (be sure to answer them completely for full
credit). These questions are based on EOC benchmarks that will be covered on the EOC.
This will be worth a 200-point homework grade & is due _________________________________.
WORLD WAR II
1. What were the social, political, and economic causes of World War II? Include:
Treaty of Versailles, economic depression, rise of dictatorships, appeasement.
2. How did the U.S. handle the outbreak of WWII? Include: Isolationism, Neutrality
Acts, Nye Committee, Cash-and-Carry, Lend-Lease, Export Control Act.
3. How did the U.S. get involved in WWII? Include FDR & Internationalism, Atlantic
Charter, Pearl Harbor.
4. How did the U.S. mobilize for WWII? What was daily life like for people during
the war?
5. Explain how women and minority groups (Japanese Americans, African
Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans) were involved in the war
both at home and overseas. Include: Double V Campaign, Korematsu v. the
United States, Bracero program & Zoot Suit Riots, Tuskegee Airmen, Rosie the
Riveter.
6. What was the U.S. plan once involved in WWII? Describe the course of WWII?
Include: Battle of Midway, Island-hopping, D-Day, Iwo-Jima, Okinawa, Stalingrad.
7. Analyze the impact of the Holocaust on Jews and other groups during WWII.
8. Explain U.S. development of the Atomic Bomb & why Truman decided to drop it.
9. What is the United Nations? Why was it formed? What was the role of the United
States in forming the United Nations? What did Mary McLeod Bethune
contribute?
10. What were long-term consequences of WWII both at home and abroad? Include
Nuremberg Trials, cold war tensions, UN, Japan as ally.
POST WORLD WAR II PROSPERITY
11. What social, political, and economic factors caused American prosperity after
World War II?
12. How did prosperity after World War II affect American society? Include the
following: GI Bill, Baby Boom, Suburbs, Highway system.
13. What was the culture of the 1950s like? Include: the following; consumer
culture, counter-culture, Beatniks, conformity in the 1950s – why the U.S.
became so cookie cutter, protest in the 1960s.
14. Examine the limitations of post-WWII prosperity by identifying the groups that
were struggling with poverty during the 1950s and why. Include Appalachians,
Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans & inner-city areas.
EARLY COLD WAR
15. Explain the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that occurred during WWII. Who
was involved? What was discussed? What was decided? How did these create
tension between the Soviet Union and the United States?
16. Explain the social, political, and economic causes of the early Cold War (19451950).
17. What was the effect of the atomic bomb on the beginning of the Cold War?
18. Describe the containment policy. What was it? How did it come about? How was
it implemented?
19. What was the Truman Doctrine? What was the effect of the Truman Doctrine?
20. What was the Marshall Plan? What was the effect of the Marshall Plan?
21. What is NATO? How did it form? Why is it significant to the Cold War?
22. What is the Warsaw Pact? Why did it form? Why is it significant to the Cold War?
23. Describe the impact of the early years of the Cold War on the lives of individuals
in the U.S. Include: Red Scare, loyalty review program, House Un-American
Activities Committee, McCarthyism, McCarran Act.
24. Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War.
25. Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Vietnam War. Include Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution and student protest movements.
PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN POLICIES
26. Describe Truman’s foreign policy and major international events that occurred
during his presidency, including why those events occurred & why they are
significant. Include: containment, West Germany is founded, Berlin Airlift, NATO,
Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Korean War.
27. Describe Eisenhower’s foreign policy and major international events that
occurred during his presidency, including why those events occurred and why
they are significant. Include: ending Korean war, massive retaliation,
brinkmanship, CIA, Sputnik launched, U-2 incident.
28. Describe Kennedy’s foreign policy and major international events that occurred
during his presidency, including why those events occurred and why they are
significant. Include: flexible response, Bay of Pigs invasion, Berlin Wall built,
Cuban Missile Crisis.
29. Describe Nixon’s foreign policy and major international events that occurred
during his presidency, including why those events occurred and why they were
significant. Include: Détente, SALT I, opening up China. Also, include how the
Watergate scandal at home influenced the public’s view of government.
30. Describe Johnson’s foreign policy and major international events that occurred
during his presidency, including why those events occurred and why they are
significant. Include: Gulf of Tonkin & Vietnam.
HOW SUCCESSFUL WERE THE FOLLOWING PRESIDENTS’ FOREIGN &
DOMESTIC POLICIES?
31. How successful was Kennedy’s foreign & domestic policy? Include the New
Frontier, his civil rights legislation, his economic plan, and the space race.
32. How successful was Johnson’s foreign & domestic policy? Include his civil rights
legislation & the Great Society programs.
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
33. Explain key civil rights figures and organizations (who they were, what their
goals were, where & when they formed/took action), why they were important
and how they contributed to the civil rights movement. Include the following:
SNCC, SCLC, CORE, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Little Rock Nine, Fannie Lou
Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Black Panther Party (Bobby
Seale & Huey P. Netwon).
34. Assess the coalition building between African Americans, whites, and other
groups to achieve civil equal rights—how did they come together and what did
they contribute to the Civil Rights Movement? Include: Freedom Summer,
Freedom Rides, Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington.
35. Evaluate the tactics (nonviolent v. violent) used by civil rights organizations—
representing African Americans, women, Native Americans, & Hispanics—and
how effective they were in bringing about change.
KEY SUPREME COURT CASE DECISISIONS
36. Explain the following Supreme Court cases (who was involved, what was the
case about, what was decided, when was the case) and why the cases were
significant. Include the following: Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board, Swann v.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, Regents of the University of California
v. Bake, Miranda v. Arizona, Gideon v. Wainright, Mapp v. Ohio, & Roe v. Wade.
FOREIGN POLICY ABROAD
37. What was the foreign policy of the US towards Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin
America, and the Middle East in the the1970s-present & what
humanitarian/political/economic factors motivated these U.S. policies? Include:
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Iranian Revolution, Iran-Contra Scandal, return of
Panama Canal, Tiananmen Square, Persian Gulf War, Bosnia & Kosovo.
21ST CENTURY ISSUES
38. Explain the following U.S. concerns entering the 21st century (who was involved,
what was happening, when, where, why important): political concerns, economic
concerns, social concerns. Include: Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and terrorism,
immigration, Florida’s role in election of 2000.
39. Analyze the effects of global & domestic terrorism on the American people.
Include: Oklahoma City bombing, attack of September 11, 2001, Patriot Act, wars
in Afghanistan & Iraq.