HONORS U.S. HISTORY – 2nd SEMESTER – STUDY GUIDE

World War 2 (Ch 16 & 17)

●Describe the events that brought the U.S into WWII

●Identify Pearl Harbor and explain how this engaged America in WWII.

●Identify and describe major battles that occurred during WWII including D-Day

●Explain the wartime mobilization and its effects on the American public

●Justification for dropping the atomic bombs

●Analyze and explainKorematsu v. United States decision

●Explain the role of women during and after WWII

The Early Cold War (Ch 18 & 20)

●Identify and explain the Truman Doctrine, containment policy and the Marshall Plan

●Explain the causes of the Berlin Airlift

●Describe the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact

●Explain America’s involvement in the Korean War and the war’s outcome

●Identify and describe Second Red Scare and McCarthyism

●Summarize the crises that developed in Cuba including the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis.

1950s Culture and Economics (Ch 19)

●Describe the formation of Levittowns

●Discuss the impact conformity had on suburban living

●Identify the how the G.I. Bill caused economic prosperity of the 1950’s

1960s Politics and Economics (Ch 20)

●Describe JFK’s “New Frontier” including the Space Race

●Summarize the goals of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”

●Examine the several decisions of the Warren Court

Civil Rights Movement (Ch 21)

●Explain the effects of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

●Identify who Dr. Martin Luther King was and the SCLC’s non-violent protest tactics

●State the motive of the 1963 March on Washington

●Describe the civil rights legislation between 1964-1968

●Identify groups whose beliefs and tactics differed from those of Dr. Martin Luther King

The Vietnam Conflict (Ch 22)

●Explain how America became involved with the Vietnam conflict

●Explain the impact of the Vietnam war on American Society

●Explain the Ho Chi Minh Trail’s involvement with the invasion/bombing of Laos and Cambodia

●Describe the antiwar movement and the growing divisions in U.S. public opinion including the Democratic National Convention and the Kent State shooting.

●Describe the legacy of the Vietnam War including the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and War Powers Act.

Other Rights Movements (Ch 23)

●Summarize the events created to secure civil rights reform for Latinos

●Identify and describe the importance of César Chávez

●Summarize the legacy of the women’s movement in employment, education and politics

●Identify the American Indian Movement (AIM) and its impact on Native American Civil Rights

●Describe immigration reform changes during the 1960s

The 1970s (Ch 24)

●Indentify Nixon’s foreign policy of “realpolitik” and détente

●Describe the events known as the Watergate Scandal

●Explain the impact of the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case on affirmative action

●Describe the Three Mile Island Incident

●Describe how the energy crisis created a dependency on foreign oil

The Conservative Tide (Ch 25)

●Describe Reaganomicsand its attempts to tackle inflation and unemployment

●Explain the Iran Contra Scandal

The 1990s and the New Century (26)

●Explain Clinton’s impeachment

●Explain the pros and cons of NAFTA

●Describe the internet and “dotcom” companies

●Describe economic changes in the modern age from globalization/outsourcing

●9/11/2001 terrorist attacks and the start of the Global War on Terrorism