Unit 6 Study Guide
All test questions are derived from the key terms list and the questions on this study guide. QUESTIONS FROM PAST UNITS WILL ALSO BE ON THIS TEST.
1. Describe how President Truman and Congress disagreed on policies after World War II.
2. Explain President Truman’s Fair Deal and how successful it was.
3. What was the significance of the GI Bill?
4. What was the significance of suburbs such as Levittown?
5. What was the “baby boom,” and what were its causes?
6. Describe the car and driving culture of the 1950s.
7. How did mass media contribute to popular culture during the 1950s?
8. What was the significance of rock and roll music?
9. What were the causes of the culture of conformity during the 1950s?
10. What values were emphasized by the culture of conformity during the 1950s?
11. Describe the counterculture of the 1950s.
12. Why did President Eisenhower promote a policy of “massive retaliation”?
13. What was the significance of covert operations under President Eisenhower?
14. What happened in Iran in 1953?
15. What concerns did the United States have about South Vietnam?
16. What was the significance of the Eisenhower Doctrine?
17. What was Sputnik, and how did it impact the Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union?
18. What was the significance of the Cuban Revolution in 1959?
19. What was the significance of the U-2 Incident?
20. What is the “military-industrial complex,” and why did it concern President Eisenhower?
21. What was the role of television in the Election of 1960?
22. Describe John F. Kennedy’s leadership style.
23. What was the significance of JFK’s New Frontier?
24. What was the significance of the Alliance for Progress?
25. What was the significance of the Peace Corps?
26. What was the significance of the “space race,” and how did the United States win it?
27. Why did JFK prefer a “flexible response” military policy?
28. What was the significance of the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
29. What was the significance of the Berlin Wall?
30. What was the significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
31. How did JFK’s assassination (and the Warren Commission) impact the relationship between the United States government and its citizens?
32. What was JFK’s legacy?
33. What progress in black civil rights was made in the years immediately after World War II?
34. What were three major civil rights issues, and which two were most effectively addressed during the Civil Rights Movement?
35. What was the significance of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling?
36. What was the significance of the Little Rock Nine?
37. What was the significance of James Meredith?
38. What was the significance of Rosa Parks?
39. Describe the events of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and their impact.
40. Describe the events of the sit-in movement and their impact.
41. Describe the events of the freedom rides and their impact.
42. What strategies did Martin Luther King, Jr. use to promote civil rights?
43. Describe the events of civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
44. Describe the events of the March on Washington.
45. What was the significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
46. Describe the events of the Selma March in Alabama.
47. What was the significance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
48. What was the significance of the black power movement?
49. What was the significance of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers?
50. How did the black power movement impact the Civil Rights Movement?
51. What was MLK’s legacy?
52. What was the significance of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society?
53. How did the Great Society programs help fight a “war on poverty”?
54. How did Great Society programs address civil rights?
55. How did Great Society programs address healthcare?
56. How did Great Society programs address education?
57. How did Great Society law, the Immigration Act of 1965, impact immigration?
58. What was the significance of Rachel Carson and her book, Silent Spring?
59. How did Great Society address environmental issues?
60. How did the Warren Court address the rights of the accused?
61. How did the Warren Court address the rights of free expression?
62. What were the origins of the 1960s cultural movements?
63. Describe the actions of student groups during the 1960s.
64. Describe the beliefs and actions of hippies.
65. What was the significance of the sexual revolution?
66. What was Second-wave Feminism?
67. What was the significance of Betty Friedan?
68. What was the significance of Title IX?
69. What was the significance of the Roe v. Wade ruling?
70. What was the significance of the Equal Rights Amendment? What was its fate?
71. What was the significance and impact of Cesar Chavez?
72. What was the significance and impact of the American Indian Movement?
73. What was the significance of the Stonewall Riots?
74. Explain the meaning of “domino theory.”
75. Who were the Vietcong?
76. What was the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
77. What made fighting the Vietcong difficult during the Vietnam War?
78. How did combat impact South Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War?
79. How did combat impact American soldiers during the Vietnam War?
80. What was the difference between “hawks” and “doves” during the Vietnam War?
81. How did the Vietnam War impact the Great Society?
82. What was the “credibility gap,” and what caused it to occur during the Vietnam War?
83. Why was the draft considered unfair during much of the Vietnam War?
84. How did American youth react to the Vietnam War draft?
85. What was the significance of the 26th Amendment?
86. What was the impact of the Tet Offensive on American support for the Vietnam War?
87. Why was Robert Kennedy significant?
88. How did many Americans feel about the condition of the United States during the Election of 1968?
89. Why made Richard Nixon appealing as a candidate for president in the Election of 1968?
90. What was Vietnamization?