US HISTORY FINAL REVIEW SHEET 2015
Directions: By defining and answering all questions you will receive extra credit on your final. Here are the decades this final will cover: 1920’s, 1930’s, WWII, Cold War, 1960’s and Civil Rights and Vietnam. You cannot type this out to get extra credit it must be hand written. This sheet will be worth 15 points!
Chapter 9, and 10: 1920’s
WARREN HARDING
LANGSTON HUGHES
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
KELLOG-BRIAND PACT
SACCO and VANZETTI
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
MARCUS GARVEY
SPEAKEASY
CALVIN COOLIDGE
PROHIBITION
SUFFRAGE
FLAPPER
BUYING ON MARGIN
INSTALLMENT BUYING
JOHN SCOPES
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Albert B. Fall accepted bribes in the ______.
Al Capone built his criminal empire by means of
What amendment banned the drinking/sale of alcohol?
Nicola Sacco and Bartholomew Vanzetti were said to be innocent victims of what crime?
Charlie Chaplin was a star in what field?
Charles Lindbergh was the first man to
What were the 3 causes of the stock market crash?
Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to
Chapter 11 and 12: 1930’s
JOHN STEINBECK
SQUARE DEAL
HERBERT HOOVER
FIRESIDE CHATS
BANK TRUST
NEW DEAL
DUST BOWL
UPTON SINCLAIR
HOOVERVILLES
SPECULATION
BLACK TUESDAY
FDR
MULTIPLE CHOICE
When and who said “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself?”
What were the 3 R’s of the New Deal?
What did Herbert Hoover say would pull the people out of the Depression?
What is buying on Margin?
What day did the Stock Market collapse?
What was the percentage of unemployed workers?
What state and political background did FDR have?
Which disease afflicted FDR?
Chapter 13 and 14: WWII
DACHAU
ROOSIE THE RIVETER
WINSTON CHURCHILL
BENITO MUSSOLINI
BRACERO TREATY
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
BATTLE OF DUNKIRK
YALTA CONFERENCE
MARSHALL PLAN
OPERATION BARBAROSA
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Hitler?
What was the Cash and Carry system?
What was the Allies first priority?
What was the immediate result of the invasion of Normandy?
The battle of Okinawa affected the Allied plans for war by?
How would you describe the integration of the US military?
What were the Navajo code talkers?
Atlantic charter of 1941 became the basis for?
What was the purpose of the 4 freedoms speech?
What was the problem with the Japanese internment camps? (constitutionally)
Lend Lease Act was?
Who said, ”Dec. 7th 1941 will be a date that will live in infamy.”
What was the most notable contributions of African Americans?
How did Hitler violate the Treaty of Versailles?
What country does the Sudetenland lie in?
What was the policy of Britain and France regarding Hitler?
Which country agreed to stay neutral when Hitler attacked Poland?
What was Hitler’s worst defeat?
D-day: date and general info about
Atlantic Wall
What was a major turning point in the Pacific for the US?
Which US General led the island hopping campaign?
Jews wore what in the concentration camps?
Which order sent the Japanese to camps?
What was the name of the trials after WWII?
How much were Manzanar camp survivors given in 1988?
Nazi parties formal name?
Who was the superior race in Germany during WWII?
What laws proclaimed the Jews non-citizens?
Chapter 15 and 16: COLD WAR
BBERLIN AIRLIFT
NATO
SEATO
BABY BOOM
DOMINO EFFECT
38TH PARALLEL
NIKITA KRUSHCHEV
JOSEPH MCARTHY
MARSHALL PLAN
FAIR DEAL
LEVITTOWN
BRINKMANSHIP
MAO ZEDONG
CHANG KAI SHEK
MULTIPLE CHOICE
President Truman removed this U.S. General from duty
This candidate won the 1952 Presidential election vowing to bring the Korean war to a close:
The Soviet Union and its satellites responded to N.A.T.O. with their own alliance called the -The Korean War was fought between what years?
The N Koreans attacked S Korea and started the Korean War when they crossed the ______th parallel.
C.I.A. stands for?
In 1957, the Soviets successfully launched the world’s first artificial satellite called
The first Communist nation in Latin America – established in 1959, was
The man who led the nation’s 2nd Red Scare was a ______senator from ______- In 1953, two radicals, executed for espionage, fueling
The richest country in the world following WWII?
Between what ages was it common for a man and a woman to get married in the 1950’s?
The 1950’s has also been referred to as the ______age.
The most popular variety show in the 1950’s was the ______show.
She was called the blonde bombshell of the nuclear age:
Soviet leader during the beginning of the Cold War?
The person who made the famous “Iron -Curtain” speech regarding the division of Europe The Soviet response to the Marshall plan was the ______plan.
The Soviets responded to the Western-formed German Government(West Germany) and mutual defense pact in 1948 with the ______.
N.A.T.O. stands for
The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of June 1944, more commonly called
Dwight D. Eisenhower became President with the help of the slogan
Chapter 17 and 18 and 20: CIVIL RIGHTS
First astronaut to walk on the moon?
JFK assassinated in this city?
JFK’s vice President?
Who did JFK run against in 1960?
JFK served in what war?
JFK’s father was the first Irish American to serve as an Ambassador to?
What state was the Kennedy family from?
What was JFK program that trained volunteers for poor nations?
Whose Presidency was characterized by the Great Society?
What President started Medicare and Medicaid?
First African American to serve on the Supreme Court?
Civil Rights activist that entered the U of Mississippi after being denied admission?
This amendment was passed in 1964 and banned states from taxing its own citizens?
Segregation that exists through custom and practice rather than law?
Programs that gave preference to minorities and women in hiring and admissions were?
What was the Bay of Pigs about?
MLK received his PHD in ______at Boston University.
What law created separate facilities in the south?
NOW fought for equal rights for what group?
What party was said to be a greater threat than communism?
Fought for self determination or the ability to govern themselves?
Who led the Mexican Americans to get better working conditions?
What religion did Malcolm X follow?
What did Martin Luther King advocate?
The place where hippies gathered to live communally?
A non-violent refusal to buy a companies product?
The slogan “Hell no, we won’t go” was the demonstrators protesting what war?
In 1965 it became illegal to burn what?
What was the name of the group who lived counter culture in the 1960’s?
Who shot and killed JFK’s assassin?
Who assassinated JFK?
The space mission that landed on the moon?
Chapter 19: VIETNAM WAR
VIETMINH
GEORGE WALLACE
GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION
TET OFFENSIVE
HENRY KISSINGER
HO CHI MINH TRAIL
PENTAGON PAPERS
VIETCONG
DIEN BIEN PHU
GENEVA CONFERENCE
KHMER ROUGE
MY LAI MASSACRE
ROBERT S. MCNAMARA
VIETNAMIZATION
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Why was Nixon elected President in 1968?
How was the Vietnam war fought?
How were Vietnam vets greeted when they arrived back home?
How did America view communism around the world following the war?
How did the invasion of Cambodia affect antiwar opinion?
Why did African-American leaders oppose Vietnam?
What style of warfare was fought in Vietnam?
What was someone called who opposed the war? For the war?
Young men who fled the US and avoided the draft were called?
Jellied gasoline is
Sudden vivid flashbacks of combat were referred to as?
Chemical used in Vietnam to destroy foliage.
The capital of N. Vietnam during the war was?
The capital of S. Vietnam during the war was
What did the 26th amendment do?
The first major military action by the US in Vietnam was called ______
What reporter voiced his concerns which caused a major uproar with the government.
After the US invaded this country that the killings by national guard took place at Kent State.
Vietnam was divided along the ____th parallel.
Which 2 key Civil Rights figures were assassinated in 1968?
The silent majority was used by which president?
What state did Woodstock take place in?