US History – Spring Semester Final Exam Study Guide
Unit Six – Early 1940s: World War II
Textbook: Chapters 16 & 17
-Rise of Fascism, reasons for WW II in Europe, Hitler & Mussolini’s war in Europe (incl. Holocaust)
-America prepares for War (Cash & Carry/ Lend-Lease, draft)
-US Mobilization for war (women, Tuskegee Airmen, Navajo code talkers, Japanese-Americans, new factory workers, Hollywood’s role)
-US in War in Europe & North Africa
-War in the Pacific vs. Japan
-Discrimination on the Homefront (Japanese internment, Zoot Suit Riots, African-Americans)
-The Allied Victory (battles & strategies)
-The Manhattan Project
Unit Seven – Late 1940s & 1950s
Textbook: Chapters 18 & 19
-1940s Post-War America (Truman, suburbs, GATT, Taft-Hartley, 1940s civil rights, Fair Deal)
-Origins of the Cold War (Containment, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, UN)
-Cold War in Asia (China, Korea)
-Eisenhower’s Cold War Policies of 1950s (MAD, Eisenhower Doctrine, CIA)
-The Red Scare of the 1950s (HUAC, McCarthyism)
-Life During the 50s (Pop Culture, teens, TV, Elvis)
-The Other America of the 1950s (Jim Crow, Emmett Till Case, Chavez Ravine)
-End of the Eisenhower Years (1950s Civil Rights, 1950s involvement in Vietnam)
Unit Eight – 1960s
Textbook: Chapters 20, 21, 22 Sec 1-4 & 23 Sec 1 & 3
-The Kennedy Years (Camelot, New Frontier, Civil Rights, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam)
-LBJ’s Great Society
-The Vietnam War under LBJ (Gulf of Tonkin, Search & Destroy, Vietcong, Tet)
-The Civil Rights Movement (MLK, SNCC, CORE, Freedom Summer, March on Washington, Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act)
-Radical Civil Rights Movement (Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Black Power)
-Counter-Culture Movement (Hippies, Summer of Love, Woodstock)
-Chaos of 1968 (DNC, Yippies, MOBE, Chicago 10)
-Latino & Native Americans for Civil Rights (Brown Berets, AIM)
Unit Nine – 1970s
Textbook: Chapter 24, Chp 23, Sec 2, Chp 22, Sec 5
-Nixon’s Silent Majority & Domestic Policy (New Federalism, Welfare, EPA, Title IX, minority school bussing)
-End of the Vietnam War (My Lai, Cambodia, Kent & Jackson State, Paris Peace Accord)
-Struggle for Equality (Women’s rights, ERA, Gay Rights, Harvey Milk)
-Nixon & the Cold War (Détente, China, Kissinger’s Realpolitik)
-Watergate (Who was involved & why)
-Gerald Ford Years (Nixon pardon, Helsinki Accords, inflation)
-Jimmy Carter Years (Camp David Accords, energy crisis, Iran Hostages, Three Mile Island & Environmental issues)
-Pop Culture of the 1970s
Unit Ten – 1980s
Textbook: Chapter 25
-Reagan Domestic Policy (Supply side economics, deregulation, tax cuts, 1984 re-election)
-Social Issues in the 1980s (War on drugs, gun control, Challenger disaster, AIDS epidemic)
-Reagan Foreign Policy (Reagan Doctrine, SDI/Star Wars, Libya, Middle East)
-Pop Culture of the 1980s
-Bush Presidency (No new taxes, fall of communism, Persian Gulf War, bad economy)
Unit Eleven – 1990s & 2000s
Textbook: Chapter 26
-The Clinton Years Domestic (Health care, Contract with America, Controversial domestic policy, Dot Com bubble, Lewinsky scandal & impeachment)
-Clinton Foreign policy (New role after Cold War, Domestic Terrorism, International Terrorism)
-California Issues in 1990s
-Pop Culture of 1990s
-George W. Bush Presidency (2000 Election, domestic tax policy, NCLB, 2008 financial crisis)
-George W. Bush Foreign policy (9/11, War on Terror, Patriot Act, Iraq & Afghanistan)
-The Obama Years (Election, financial crisis, Obamacare, domestic & foreign policy)
Good luck. Focus on your notes. Assignments will also be helpful, especially Reading Reviews & DBQs. Read over old tests to help with IDs.
Be sure to utilize the class website - Look at all of the past unit tests and what you had to know for each test also get any missing notes from the website!
Format: 100 multiple choice scantron questions (200pts), 5 document based questions (10pts), 4 short-answer questions (20 points) & 4 ID’s (20pts), (plus an additional two for extra credit -up to 10 points extra), The final will be a total of 250 points.
*SAQs, DBQs & IDs will be posted on-line*
Period 5 Final Exam Wednesday, June 7th, 10:35am-12:35pm
Period 1 Final Exam Thursday, June 8th, 8:05-10:05am
Period 2 Final Exam Thursday, June 8th, 10:35am-12:35pm
Period 3 Final Exam Friday, June 9th 8:05-10:05am
Period 4 Final Exam Friday, June 9th, 10:35am-12:35pm