US History

Second Semester Final Study Guide

Election of 1928

Herbert Hoover

Overproduction

Speculation

Black Thursday

Black Tuesday

Dustbowl

Hooverville

Domestic upheaval

Election of 1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt

New Deal

Fireside chats

FDIC

SEC

HOLC

FCA

TVA

AAA

NRA

CCC

FERA

CWA

WPA

The Wagner Act

Social Security

Fair Labor Standards Act

Treaty of Versailles

Neutrality

“America First”

Neutrality Acts (WWII)

Chinese Invasion of Japan

Cash and Carry

Lend-Lease Act

Pearl Harbor

Tuskegee Airmen

Double V

Cost-Plus

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

War Production Board

Rationing

Victory Gardens

Office of War Information

Fair Employment Practices Commission

Bracero Program

Zoot-Suit Riots

Executive Order 9066

Japanese Internment

Korematsu v. United States

Commission on Wartime Relocation (1980)

Operation Overlord

D-Day

V-E Day

Island Hopping

Kamikaze Missions

Okinawa and Iwo Jima

Total War

Manhattan Project

Bataan Death March

Rape of Nanking

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Anti-Semitism

Holocaust

Final Solution

Concentration Camps

Yalta/Potsdam Conference

Cold War

United Nations

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Geneva Convention

Cold War

Communism

Capitalism

Private Property

Public Property

Wealth Distribution

Iron Curtain

Containment

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

NATO

Warsaw Pact

Red Scare

Federal Employee Loyalty Program

HUAC

Joseph McCarthy/McCarthyism

Army-McCarthy Hearings

Bert the Turtle

My Son John

Mao Zedong

38th Parallel

Douglas MacArthur

SEATO

Arms Race

Mutually Assured Destruction

Fidel Castro/Cuban Revolution

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy

Ho Chi Minh

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Domino Theory

Geneva Accords

Vietcong

Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution

Operation Rolling Thunder

Napalm/Agent Orange

“Hearts & Minds”

Selective Service

Anti-War Protests

Richard Nixon

Paris Peace Accords

War Powers Act

Détente

SALT

Watergate

Gerald Ford/Presidential Parson

Camp David Accords

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Ronald Reagan

Reaganomics

Deficit

Mikhail Gorbachev

Glasnost

Perestroika

Berlin Wall

Reconstruction Amendments

Plessy v. Ferguson

Segregation

Seneca Falls Convention

19th Amendment

Suburbia

Domesticity

Latinos

Bracero Program

NAACP

Thurgood Marshall

Brown v. Board of Education

Little Rock Nine

Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King, Jr.

SCLC

Read-ins

Sit-ins

Wade-ins

Freedom Rides

James Meredith

MLK and Birmingham

George Wallace

March on Washington

“I Have a Dream”

16th Street Church

Filibuster

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Freedom Summer

Selma

Voting Rights Act of 1965

24th Amendment

Malcolm X

Black Panthers

Fair Housing Act of 1968

Affirmative Action

Women’s Right Movement

Feminism

Betty Friedan/Feminine Mystique

NOW

ERA

Phyllis Schlafly

Title IX

Roe v. Wade

Cesar Chavez

Dolores Huerta

UFW

Collective Bargaining

Chicano Movement

Student Objectives

  1. List and describe the economic choices that caused the economy to become unstable in the late 1920s.
  2. List and describe the underlying conditions that led to the collapse of the US economy.
  3. Explain how the stock market crash triggered a chain of events that led to the Depression.
  4. Analyze the role of government and the Federal Reserve in triggering the Depression.
  5. Explain how economic changes affected everyday life on the farms, in the city, and in the family during the 1930s
  6. Describe the consequences of the Depression and Dustbowl on various groups of people including Mexican-Americans and Midwestern farmers.
  7. Describe how the American people coped with the Great Depression using examples from primary sources.
  8. Explain why Americans wanted change in the 1930s through the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932.
  9. Explain the rationale behind FDR’s decision to use the government to solve the problem of the Great Depression.
  10. List, explain, and judge the first and second New Deal reforms for rebuilding the American economy and infrastructure.
  11. Explain the causes of U.S. entry into World War II by analyzing U.S. responses to global events from 1935-1941
  12. Explain how World War II affected the American people at home.
  13. Trace US involvement in the war effort during World War II
  14. Analyze the alternatives to and the reasons for the US to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
  15. Trace the steps of the Holocaust and analyze its major lessons
  16. Compare and contrast the major strengths of the US and the USSR post WWII
  17. Identify the goals of the UN and evaluate its success in creating peace and progress.
  18. Analyze the origins of the Cold War
  19. Compare and contrast the major beliefs of communism and capitalism and why this led to conflict
  20. Evaluate early actions of the United States to combat communism and USSR influence
  21. Explain the major actions undertaken by the HUAC
  22. Describe the rise of Joseph McCarthy and analyze his fall from power
  23. Demonstrate how McCarthyism and Communist/USSR fear affected everyday American life
  24. Explain the reasons for US involvement in Korea
  25. Using primary sources, evaluate the major arguments for and against the firing of General Douglas MacArthur
  26. Assess the results and outcomes of the Korean War
  27. Analyze the situation in Cuba during the Cold War and how it led to continued Cold War tension
  28. Trace activity and US involvement in Vietnam prior to 1964
  29. Define the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and its impact on Presidential authority
  30. Analyze US fighting and involvement in the Vietnam War
  31. Explain the reasons for the birth and growth of the US Anti-War Movement in Vietnam
  32. Explain the end of the Vietnam War and its outcomes for the US and continued Cold War
  33. Explain Nixon’s foreign policy and the evolution of détente.
  34. Trace further foreign policy developments through the Ford and Carter presidencies and its effects on public opinion
  35. Summarize the major policies of Ronald Reagan
  36. Analyze the major reasons for the end of the Cold War
  37. Trace the history of African-Americans, women, and Latinos through the 1950s in the United States.
  38. Define the major ruling of Brown v. Board of Education and the Southern response
  39. Assess the conflict between federal and state power in enforcing the Brown decision
  40. Analyze the major ways in which African-Americans protested and evaluate the success of these means of protest
  41. Explain the March on Washington and the major points of MLK’s I Have a Dream Speech
  42. Analyze the legislation passed to advance civil rights in the 1960s
  43. Compare and contrast the different approaches and viewpoints of advancing Civil Rights among Civil Rights leaders
  44. Evaluate the major successes and failures of the Civil Rights Movement
  45. Explain the reasons for the reemergence of the Women’s Rights Movement in the 1960s and 1970s
  46. Analyze the ways in which women were successful in their push for equality
  47. Evaluate the impact of women’s equality and whether or not women are equal today
  48. Analyze the reasons for Latinos coming to the United States and the various rights they wanted
  49. Evaluate the effectiveness of Cesar Chavez and the intentions of the UFW
  50. Elaborate on further pushes for Latino equality and assess the status of Latinos today in the US

Primary Source Documents

  1. Henry Ford on Solution to Great Depression
  2. The Nation Article to Hoover on Great Depression
  3. Woodie Guthrie- This Land is Your Land
  4. Primary Source Set: Social Security
  5. Primary Source Set: Successes/Failures of New Deal
  6. Primary Source Set: Japanese Internment in the United States
  7. Primary Source Set: Justification for Dropping the Atomic Bomb
  8. Primary Source Set: Origins of the Cold War
  9. Primary Source Set: Cuban Missile Crisis
  10. Primary Source Set: Anti-Vietnam War Movement
  11. Primary Source Set: Montgomery Bus Boycott
  12. Primary Source Set: Image of Women in 1950s