Honors US History Spring Final Exam Study Sheet
The following are topics that appear on your final exam.
PEOPLE
Robert Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)
Neil Armstrong
Fidel Castro
Earl Warren
Upton Sinclair
Jimmy Doolittle
Betty Friedan
Rachel Carson
Ralph Nader
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
John D. Rockefeller
Douglas MacArthur
Booker T. Washington
Joseph McCarthy
Sitting Bull
Ho Chi Minh
Andrew Carnegie
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Ford
Theodore Roosevelt
Jackie Robinson
Joseph McCarthy
Rosa Parks
John F. Kennedy
Earl Warren
Thurgood Marshall
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Cesar Chavez
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
Robert Kennedy
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Warren Berger
Richard Nixon
Sandra Day O’Connor
Madeleine Albright
GROUPS OF PEOPLE
Little Rock 9
Muckrakers
“Rosie the Riveter”
Old Immigrants vs. New Immigrants
Writers of the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance writers/poets
Musicians of the 1920s
Civilian Conservation Corps
House Un-American Activities Committee
Dixiecrats
Students for a Democratic Society
Migrant Farm Workers
Black Power Movement
Apollo 11
Yuppies
AMENDMENTS & COURT CASES
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
22nd Amendment
25th Amendment
26th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Plessy v. Ferguson
ACTS OF CONGRESS
Pure Food and Drug Act
Homestead Act
Presidential Succession Act of 1946
Social Security Act
Destroyers for Bases Deal
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Social Security Act
Taft-Hartley Act
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
War Powers Act
Freedom of Information Act
EVENTS
Cuban Revolution 1959
Red Scare
Boxer Rebellion
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
Start of WWII
US entry into WWII
D-Day
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Operation Overlord
Battle at Midway
JFK Assassination
Civil Rights movement in the 1960s
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination
March on Washington
Kent State University killings
Korean War
Battle of Little Bighorn
U-2 incident
Scopes Monkey Trial
Coal Strike 1902
USS Maine
Election of Barack Obama
Spanish American War
Blockade of Berlin, 1940s
Election of 1960
Cuban Missile Crisis
Democratic National Convention/Election of 1968
Moon Landing
Kent State protests
Watergate Scandal
SALT agreements
Gulf War 1991
Iran-Contra scandal
Election of 2000
OTHER TERMS
Causes of WWI
Lusitania
Zimmerman Note
Fourteen Points
Allied strategy in WWII
Axis powers
Aftermath of WWII
Manhattan Project
US response to Japanese aggression in the Pacific
US Battleships in WWII
Blitzkrieg
Japanese Internment in WWII
Operation Overlord
Atomic Bomb
End of the Korean War
Vietnamization
Pentagon Papers
Legacy of Vietnam
Sputnik
Containment policy
Berlin Wall
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Panama Canal
American Federation of Labor
Anti-Imperialism
Great Society
Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
The first “Talkie” movie
Causes of the Great Depression
The Supreme Court and the New Deal
Sharecropping
Great Society
Iron Curtain
Medicare
United Nations
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Indian Reservations
Warsaw Pact
Cross of Gold speech
US Government policy towards Native Americans in the 19th century
20th century social changes
Square Deal
Open Door policy
The Jungle
Grandfather Clauses
Harlem Renaissance
Teapot Dome
Boxer Rebellion
Women’s Suffrage movement
Prohibition
Buying stock on credit
Causes of the Great Depression
Growth of the Suburbs
Iron Curtain
Accomplishments of the Truman administration
Desegregation
Berlin Wall
Freedom Rides
Reaganomics
1960s Civil Rights Movement
Oil Crisis 1970s
Supply side economics
Internet revolution
“Star Wars”
Iranian Hostage crisis
Space shuttle Challenger
AIDS epidemic
ACRONYMS TO KNOW
NATO
SEC
FDIC
CCC
TVA
NAFTA
AAA
SSA
NRA
PWA
CWA
SEATO
UN
SALT
There are 180 questions on the exam. There may not be exactly 180 topics on this list (some of those listed have more than one question associated with them). Good Luck!