Final Review
US History – 2nd Semester
1. What was Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech about?
2. Why type of government did Mao Zedong run?
3. What was the UN’s reaction to fighting in Korea?
4. Where did Chinese Nationalists have to retreat to following the Chinese Revolution?
5. What does the 38th parallel divide?
6. What countries backed N. Korea in the Korean War?
7. What countries backed N. Korea in the Korean War?
8. Why did General MacArthur want to extend the Korean War into China?
9. What political party did Strom Thurmond represent in the 1948 Presidential election?
10. What did McCarthy become famous for during 1950’s?
11. What actions did President Eisenhower take during the events surrounding the Little Rock Nine?
12. What famous civil rights leader led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
13. What was Rosa Parks famous for?
14. What were John Foster Dulles’ policies regarding Communism?
15. What was the Bay of Pigs?
16. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
17. What did the hot line established in 1963 do?
18. What was the Peace Corps, and who established it?
19. What did the Warren Commission conclude about the Kennedy Assassination?
20. What is Medicare?
21. Which political party was most pleased by the decisions of the Warren Court?
22. What was the result of Brown vs. Board of Education?
23. What was the Freedom Summer?
24. What was the Great Society?
25. What did the Black Panthers believe in?
26. What is the domino theory?
27. What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
28. What was Operation Rolling Thunder?
29. How did the Vietcong fight the Vietnam war?
30. What happened at My Lai?
31. Who won the Presidential election of 1968?
32. What was Vietnamization, and which President utilized it?
33. How did the War Powers Act affect the President?
34. Who signed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
35. How did counterculture affect the rights movements that followed it?
36. How did Watergate affect public trust in the government?
37. What was the SALT I Treaty?
38. What was Nixon’s Southern Strategy?
39. How did Nixon treat the Soviet Union?
40. What controversial action did President Ford take regarding Nixon?
41. What is OPEC, and what is its purpose?
42. What is the Equal Rights Amendment, and did it ever pass into law?
43. What type of protest did Cesar Chavez use?
44. What was the National Organization for Women?
45. What crisis did the US have with Iran under President Jimmy Carter?
46. What did Ronald Reagan do to defense spending?
47. When did the Berlin Wall fall?
48. Which President negotiated the end of the Cold War?
49. Who was in charge of Iraq following the Kuwait issue?
50. How long did the Persian Gulf War last?
51. How many Americans were killed in the Persian Gulf War?
52. How many Iraqis were killed in the Persian Gulf War?