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MCPS US History B

Final Exam B

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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?
Created by: mslampel
 

 



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