U.S. History Final Exam Review Sheet
Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
World War II
Chapter
1. Explain the rise of dictatorships after World War I in the following countries: Germany,
Japan, Spain, USSR & Italy.
2. How did the Treaty of Versailles impact World War II?
3. What were women’s roles during World War II?
4. How and why did the United States get involved in World War II?
5. Why did Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb?
6. What did the American government do to stop wartime inflation?
7. When and what is V-E Day?
There will be a map on Europe during World War II.
There will be a question about the Holocaust and sources.
There will be a reading on Pearl Harbor.
There will be a graph on defense spending and unemployment.
Cold War/1950’s
Chapter 16
8. Why did the Cold War start between the US and the USSR?
9. What was the Truman Doctrine?
10. How did Douglas MacArthur view the war in Korea? Where did he want to expand the
war?
11. What did the armistice say that ended the Korean War?
12. What are the major differences between capitalism and communism?
13. What was the Berlin Blockade? Why did the Soviets do this?
14. Why did the US develop the hydrogen bomb?
15. What happened during McCarthyism? What impact did it have on 50’s society?
16. Define suburbia.
17. Define Truman Doctrine.
18. Define domino theory.
19. Define consumerism.
Civil Rights
Chapter 18
20. Define: de facto, de jure segregation.
21. What was the decision in the Brown vs. the Board of Education? What decision did it
overturn?
22. Define Black Power.
23. Who is associated with Black Power?
24. What events contributed to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
25. What did the Voting Rights Act say?
JFK and LBJ
Chapter 17
26. What issues did the Warren Court deal with?
27. What were the factors that contributed to the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960?
28. What was the Great Society? What programs did it begin? There will also be a reading
on the Great Society.
29. There will be a reading on the Berlin Wall. Why was it built?
30. What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis? How was it resolved?
Cold War
31. Define arms race.
32. Define satellite nations.
33. Define Cold War.
34. Define blacklisting.
Chapter 15
1950s Life
35. Define baby boom.
36. Define planned obsolescence.
Chapter 16
JFK and LBJ
Chapter 17
37. Define and explain the New Frontier.
38. What was created and funded by Kennedy’s New Frontier?
39. What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall? What was JFK’s
involvement in Berlin?
40. Define and explain the Bay of Pigs Incident.
41. Define and explain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
42. Define and explain the Peace Corps.
43. Define and explain the Warren Commission. What conclusions did it reach?
44. Define and explain the Great Society.
45. Define and explain Miranda v. Arizona.
46. Define and explain Gideon v. Wainwright.
47. Define and explain Medicaid.
48. Define and explain Medicare.
49. Define and explain the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
50. What was the “space race?” What the events are a part of this technological push?
Civil Rights
Chapter 18
51. According to the Kerner Commission, what was the main cause of urban violence?
52. Define boycott.
53. Define white flight.
54. Define black power.
55. Define civil disobedience.
56. Define non-violent resistance.
Vietnam War
Chapter 19
57. What tactic was used effectively by the Vietcong to attack the US?
58. How did the Vietcong get information about US troop movements and supplies?
59. What were the battles of the Vietnam War like?
60. What was tactic that was used most frequently by the US against the communists in
Vietnam?
61. How effective were the guerilla tactics used in the Vietnam War?
62. How did students react to the end of college deferments for the Vietnam draft?
63. What were the psychological issues that led to massacres like the killings of the My Lai
massacre?
Counterculture and Feminism
Chapter 20
64. What inspired the modern feminist movement?
65. Which law was proposed specifically to address the complaints of women that were not
adequately dealt with under the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
66. What is the ERA? How did it fail?
67. Who made up the counterculture?
68. What were the forces that weakened the counter-culture movement?
69. Who was Cesar Chavez? What did he do?
70. Define and explain AIM. What were their goals?
71. Define and explain feminism.
72. Define and explain Roe v. Wade.
73. Define and explain Haight-Ashbury.
74. Define and explain NOW.
75. Define and explain Woodstock.
There will be a reading on the space race.
There will be a graph on opinions about the Vietnam War.
There will be a Venn diagram on minority groups in the U.S.
Possible Essay Questions:
1. Connection between the Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education cases.
2. Mobilization of American society following Pearl Harbor.
3. Explain the impact of franchising in business on American society.
4. Explain reasons for AND against the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
5. Know what groups of people have been targeted as “disloyal” during American history.