US History Final Review Sheet American Neutrality Peace time Draft Axis Powers Allied Powers Isolationist Blitzkrieg lend-lease act Atomic Bomb Cold War Communism Containment Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine Nuremberg War Trials D-Day GI Bill Holocaust Tuskegee Airmen Food Rationing War Bonds U War Production Board Appeasement Dictator Totalitarianism Imperialism Nazism People Truman Patton Eisenhower Rommel Hitler Stalin Mussolini Churchill FDR Kamakazi Places Pearl Harbor Pacific Theater Atlantic Theater Hiroshima Nagasaki Yalta Conference Stalingrad Battle of the Bulge Iwo Jima Japanese Interment Camps Short Answer Questions After WW1, many Americans and their representatives in government wanted to keep the US out of any further wars in Europe. Answer each bullet point in your one paragraph response: Why did Americans and government officials want to keep the US out of foreign wars-how did the US government accomplish this? What was their foreign policy at this time? How did US neutrality change as WW2 events unfolded? Did the US provoke Japan into bombing Pearl Harbor? Prove your answer using historically accurate facts and not just your opinions. The internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 was a highly controversial action by the US government. Answer each bullet point in your one paragraph response. Describe the attitudes of the American government
towards people of Japanese descent prior to WW2. How did internment work? Did the law specifically state that people of Japanese descent would be placed into camps? What was the short and long term impact of internment on Japanese Americans? In your opinion, was the internment of Japanese Americans justified? Defend your answer using historically accurate facts and not just your opinions. Terms Cold War Containment Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine McCarthyism Berlin Wall GI Bill Domino Theory Sputnik Korean War War Powers Act Yalta Conference Iron Curtain Warsaw Pact NATO Conformity Homogenous Complacency Fear Monger Communism HUAC Hollywood Scandals Blacklist Bipolarization Conservatism Alienation Baby Boom Teenager Blue Collar White Collar Interstate Highway Act Beatnik Feminism Mystique NASA Sputnik National Defense Education Act “Duck and Cover” Generation Nixon-Khrushchev “Kitchen Debate People Joseph McCarthy President Truman Winston Churchill Algier Hiss The Rosenbergs George Kennan General MacArthur William Levitt Jack Kerouac Allen Ginsberg Elvis Lucy June Cleaver Alfred Kinsey Betty Friedan President Nixon Khrushchev Places Berlin Levittown East and West Germany 38th Parallel Short Answer: ALL will be asked. Provide thoughtful, factual, evidence based responses.
Like today, Americans purchased homes in the suburbs. Unlike today, however, this is the first time average Americans lived in suburbs and could afford homes because of new types of homes in the 1950s. How did the first “subdivision” in Levittown, New York merge conformism and consumerism? How did America’ seek to “contain” the spread of communism? In other words, what were the goals, means, and application of containment? Terms The New Frontier The Society Presidential televised debates Sit-in protests Camelot Years Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Blockade Berlin Wall Limited Test Ban Treaty The Peace Corps NASA Cosmonaut Astronaut Civil Rights Act Voting Rights Act War on Poverty (LBJ) Economic Opportunity Act Project Head Start Job Corps VISTA Elementary and Secondary Education Act Medicare Medicaid Department of Housing and Urban Development Hippy Immigration Act of 1965 Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 Mapp v. Ohio Escobedo v. Illinois Miranda v. Arizona v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Boycott Montgomery Bus Boycott SCLC “Little Rock Nine” SNCC Freedom Rides Pentagon Papers Coup d’ etat Vietcong Tonkin Gulf Resolution Napalm Agent Orange Guerilla Warfare Tet Offensive Operation Rolling Thunder 17th Parallel My Lai Living Room War Vietnamization Watergate Iran Hostage Crisis Reaganomics Stagflation Roe v. Wade NAFTA Globalization Consumerism People LBJ Lady Bird Johnson JFK Jackie Kennedy Robert F Kennedy Walter Cronkite MLK Nixon
Green Berets/Special Forces Fidel Castro Nikita Khrushchev Yuri Gagarin Neil Armstrong Lee Harvey Oswald Barry Goldwater Chief Justice Earl Warren Rosa Parks Ho Chi Minh Ngo Dinh Diem Ronald Reagan Places Cuba Vietnam Birmingham, Alabama Woolworth lunch counter Indochina Ho Chi Minh Kent State University Protest Answers: Answers will be in 1 paragraph format. Make sure you are REFLECTIVE and SPECIFIC. How did the Vietnam War set the precedent for future American Presidents engaging in the act of war? "Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam,." - President Lyndon B. Johnson Imagine that you are an American reading these words in 1966. How might you react to this statement (belief, disbelief, support, condemnation)? Would you support American involvement in Vietnam? Might your opinions have changed by late 1968? Include facts regarding the Vietnam War in your answer. Brown v. Board of Education – What 2 arguments did the NAACP make in the Brown v. Board of Education case? How did the ruling in Brown v. Board impact the lives of southerners? What bearing did it have on the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of