APUSH LAST UNIT REVIEW:50 Multiple Choice Questions

1 DBQ from 1941--1991

Broad Topics:

U.S. Entry into WWII

WWII: The Home Front

The Cold War

America in the 50’s & 60”s

Civil Rights Movement

Essential Facts:

1968

AIM

America First Committee

Atlantic Charter

Bay of Pigs

Beat Generation

Berlin Airlift

Berlin Wall

Betty Friedan

Black Muslims

Black Panthers

Brinkmanship/Massive Retaliation

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Castro

Cesar Chavez

Chicano Movement

China

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Containment

Cuban Missile Crisis

Détente

Diane Nash

Dixiecrats

Douglas MacArthur

Eisenhower

Election of 1960

ERA

Executive Order 9066

Executive Order 9981

Fair Deal

FDR

Freedom riders

George Kennan

GI Bill

Glasnost”

Good Neighbor Policy

Grape & lettuce boycott

Great Society

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Henry Kissinger

Hitler

Holocaust

HUAC

Iran-contra scandal

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Isolationism

Japanese Internment

Joe McCarthy

John Foster Dulles

John Kennedy

John Lewis

Joseph Stalin

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Kent State

Khrushchev

Korean War

Korematsu v. U.S

Little Rock

Lyndon Johnson/LBJ

Malcolm X

March on Washington

Marshall Plan

Martin Luther King, Jr.

McCarthyism

MikhailGorbachev

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Munich conference

Mussolini

NAACP

National Security Act of 1947

New Frontier

NOW

Perestroika

Reaganomics

Richard Nixon

Ronald Reagan

Rosenbergs

SALT

SCLC

Sit-Ins

SNCC

Sputnik

Suburbia

Taft-Hartley Act

TET Offensive

The Feminine Mystique

Tojo

Truman

United Farm Workers

Vietnam War

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Warren Court

Washington Conference

Watergate

Winston Churchill

Yalta

  1. Which policy/program is incorrectly matched with it’s President?
  2. Ronald Reagan – Supply Side Economics
  3. Dwight D. Eisenhower – Brinkmanship
  4. Lyndon B. Johnson – War on Poverty
  5. John F. Kennedy – New Frontier
  6. Harry Truman – Great Society
  1. One of the Goals of Reaganomics was to
  2. Reduce the United States nuclear arsenal
  3. Restrict immigration from Mexico
  4. Outsource United States manufacturing to Asian countries
  5. Encourage private investment in the economy through tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy
  6. Redistribute income to the bottom fifth of wage earners
  1. Which of the following best describes possible reasons for Japanese aggression in 1941?
  2. The United States provided military support to Great Britain who was fighting to dislodge Japan from the British colony of Hong Kong.
  3. The United States refused to allow Japanese diplomats and negotiators from leaving Washington D.C.
  4. After Japan occupied French-Indochina the United States placed an oil embargo on Japan in an attempt to force their withdrawal.
  5. The United States angered over Japanese alliance with Germany and Italy, provided weapons to France to force the Japanese to withdrawal from French-Indochina.
  6. The United States in response to the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay in China retaliated and sunk the Japanese Destroyer, Yamamoto
  1. By the late 1950s, television
  2. portrayed lifestyles that did not fit the idealized image of the suburban norm as threatening and unnatural
  3. replaced radio, newspapers, and magazines as the most important vehicle of information
  4. helped relieve social tensions by allowing those unable to share in the affluence of their neighbors to feel a part of that life through popular shows
  5. failed to provide shows that reflected the role of family
  6. reached only a small portion of the population because most people could not afford a set
  1. One major purpose of the Taft-Hartley Act was to
  2. provide reforms of the campaign finance system
  3. urge an end to the Korean War
  4. promote human rights abroad
  5. place an embargo on trade with communist nations
  6. limit the power of labor unions
  1. Eisenhower’s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles
  2. supported a return to traditional isolationism rather than continued to support the Truman administration’s containment policy
  3. proposed a series of summit meetings between Eisenhower and Soviet leaders to improve relations between the two nations
  4. announced a new policy of “massive retaliation,” threatening the use of nuclear weapons to counter communist aggression
  5. did not want the United States to become involved in foreign alliances
  6. internationalism