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MCPS US History B
Final Exam B
Question | Answer |
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Define Common Good | When the government does whatever is in the best interest of as many people as possible |
How do the Neutrality Acts show neutrality during WWII? | The Neutrality Act of 1935 |
How does the Lend Lease Act show neutrality during WWII? | |
What were the United States' war aims during World War II? | |
What were the United States' war strategies during World War II? | |
Turning points in World War II, | |
Midway, , | |
including D-Day, | |
Marshall Plan, | |
Truman Doctrine | |
Alliances and Organizations: NATO, | |
Coral Sea | |
Use of atomic bomb | |
Post war goals: Division of Germany, | |
United Nations | |
Impact on and actions of citizens on the home front | |
Impact on and actions of citizens on the home front | |
Economic impact of war on U.S. | |
Government actions on the home front, including the use of propaganda posters | |
Impact on women and minorities at home and in the military, including African Americans and Japanese Americans War and civil rights, including A. Philip Randolph | |
What caused World War II to happen? | |
Is this term or event related to other items on the review sheet? How? | |
How did this change or influence the nation? | |
What else was going on in the United States at the time? | |
How did Americans and the U.S. government promote the common good during World War II? | |
How did World War II affect women, African Americans, and Asian Americans? | |
What were the major turning points of World War II and why were they turning points? | |
How did U.S. foreign policy change after World War II? | |
Opportunity after World War II, including GI Bill of Rights | |
Growth of suburbs and highways | |
Johnson’s Great Society program | |
Desegregation of the military | |
Brown v. Board of Education | |
African American civil rights movement | |
key leaders | |
methods | |
opinions about bringing about equality | |
key actions, successes, legislation | |
Results of African American civil rights movement | |
Goals and methods of later civil rights movements, including Native Americans, Latin Americans, and women | |
Demographic trends, including baby boom | |
Popular culture and society | |
What were the causes of the civil rights movement? | |
How did opinions differ on how to achieve civil rights? | |
What methods were most effective? | |
What are the long-term effects of the civil rights movement? | |
How did the African American Civil Rights movement influence other civil rights movements? Unit | |
Communism | |
Containment | |
Cold War | |
Foreign Policy Objectives (for example, ideological) | |
McCarthyism and the Red Scare after World War II | |
Examples of containment and reaction to Soviet Union, including Berlin Blockade, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War – Causes, U.S. actions and goals, results – Foreign policy legacy of Vietnam War | |
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, War Powers Act, and presidential power | |
Vietnam war on the home front, including role of media, returning soldiers, protests | |
Arms talks, including SALT I | |
Détente | |
Cold War events in the 1980s | |
Foreign policy and the Middle East, including Camp David Accords, impact of OPEC oil embargo, relationship with Israel, Yom Kippur War | |
Persian Gulf War: causes and results | |
Impact of break up of Soviet Union on U.S. | |
What were the primary foreign policy goals of the U.S. after World War II? | |
How can these goals be seen in U.S. actions in Berlin, Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam? | |
How did the Cold War impact U.S. society? | |
How did foreign policy goals change after the Cold War? | |
What was the impact of protests against the Vietnam War? | |
How has reliance on oil from other nations influenced foreign policy? | |
Patterns in Presidential Power: Nixon and Watergate, Carter and the energy crisis, Reagan and conservatism, Clinton and the budget | |
Cultural Patterns: increased drug use, changes in the nuclear family, longer life span and the impact on Social Security | |
Environmental Patterns: changing role of government in protecting the environment | |
Patterns in the Economy: widening income gap, change from industrial to technological society, women and income inequality, stressed social security program | |
Patterns in Immigration: Changes in origins of immigrants, government reactions to illegal immigration | |
After 1970, what patterns can be seen in presidential power, the economy, the environment, culture, and immigration in the U.S.? | |
How do these patters impact government and institutions? | |
How did government and society respond to changes in presidential power, the economy, culture, and immigration? |