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MCPS US History B
Final Exam B
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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? |