See Test Review—Final 1302.docx

See Test Review—Final 1302.docx

What is fascism? What is emphasized; what is not emphasized?

What was President Reagan’s supply-side economics? What did his economic program include?

What happened at Kent State University? What events preceded this?

Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia resulted in student protests that led to tragic consequences where?

What events and information probably ended Richard Nixon’s presidency? What was the New Deal; what did it accomplish (concerning capitalism, the Depression)

What were some of the economic factors during the 1920s that caused the Depression?

What was the Warren administration’s conclusion about Kennedy’s assassination?

in World War II, what was the U.S.’s basic policy concerning Japan? What did the Japanese’s attitudes towards the U.S. begin to deteriorate and why; which European nations did Germany conquer in WWII

What was Island hopping during WWII? What was its purpose?

What factors caused the U.S. to prosper after WWII?

What happened to Japanese Americans during WWII and why?

What did Jews complain about concerning the West after WWII?

What is McCarthyism? What factors fueled this?

What characterizes communism? i.e. leadership, equality, export of goods, etc.

What did Mx American activists seek to do in the 1960s?

What was the Arab Oil Embargo; what was the effect of it?

what did the U.S. promise Iran during the Iran Hostage Crisis

What did Pres Carter do in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

Vietnam War—what did “Vietnamization” mean?

What were some events that occurred during Pres Johnson’s administration? What did he do to desegregate public schools?

How was Pres. Johnson different from Pres Kennedy (as a political figure, etc.)?

What was the PhT degree; how did women feel about it according to “The Problem that has no name?”

When and why did Gerald Ford ascend to the presidency? Did the American public like him? When did they stop liking him and why?

Why did Jimmy carter lose the election in 1980? What factors did NOT contribute to this?

What did President Roosevelt plan to do with the Supreme Court? What was the outcome of this?

Who were the Protocols of Zion?

In “out of Gas,” what does the article say about the power humans relied on for many years? For how many years did they rely on this power?

The launching of Sputnik in 1957 resulted in what?

What happened during the urban riots between 1964 and 1967? Why did this happen?

What was the ruling in Brown vs Board of Education?

How did the G.I. Bill affect African Americans (refer to “G.I. Bill of Rights”)?

When and why did many Americans lose faith in Pres. Lyndon Johnson?

What was the Bay of Pigs? What was the U.S.’s assumption during this invasion?

What was the result of fighting between North and South Korea, ultimately?

Who were the Viet Cong?

Why was Douglas MacArthur fired from command during the Korean conflict?

What was the ERA? Was it ratified? Why or why not?

What is a balance of trade deficit?

What was the American Liberty League (1934)? Why was it created?

When did Senator Joe McCarthy’s career begin to decline (what action did he do to precipitate this)?

What was the Wagner Act of the New Deal? Was it beneficial to labor? Was it the most beneficial act to labor?

Employers’ using positive measures to recruit minority employees is called what?

What did General William Westmoreland want to do in Vietnam?

Why did the sale of goods begin to go down in the mid to late 1920s?

What did President Truman do about the Berlin blockade?

Why did Roosevelt win a big victory in 1936?

In the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, what did the U.S. promise to do in exchange for the Soviet Union’s removal of missiles from Cuba?

Name the Axis powers in WWII; also name the Allied powers (the major ones)

In American Perspectives “Mauthausen,” who were the slave laborers? How long did they live?

What was the purpose(s) of the CCC (New Deal)?

What was NATO? What did it require of members?

Before WWII, what had the French depended on to defend themselves against Germany?

What did Senator Joe McCarthy find in his investigation of communism?

Why did Pres Johnson not seek re-election in 1968?

Why did the Soviet Union agree to fight against Japan?

What was the philosophy for foreign policy in the U.S. in the 1920s and early 1930s?

What was the Marshall Plan?

What did Pres Hoover do to the Bonus Army? What did this do to his reputation?

What did the Soviet Union want the U.S. to do more than anything in WWII?

What was Pres Kennedy’s greatest domestic problem?

Who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1984? Why was this monumental?

How was the economic perspective of the New Deal different from that of Pres Hoover?

Where did the plan to crash airplanes into American buildings come from?

Which New Deal program employed men to work on urban projects?

What arguments were presented to Pres Truman against dropping the bomb on Japan (in WWII)?

What did the Yom Kippur War of 1973 lead to (in the U.S.)?