2014-2015 US HISTORY_FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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Chapters covered on Final Exam: Chapter 23-Ch 27 and questions from final
presentations
These are the major terms and concepts that you will need to
know/understand/apply for the final exam
ALSO, you will get back your old tests and quizzes to study from
The exam will be multiple choice, matching, and an essay question
The essay question will focus on either the Cold War or on the Vietnam War
Ch 23: 1950s
Film Industry vs. TV
Rock and Roll
Levittown
Baby boom
White collar vs. blue collar jobs
Electronic advancements
Medical advancements
Salk and Sabin
Beat Movement-Jack Kerouac
Poverty line
Urban renewal
Bracero Program
Termination policy
Appalachia
Juvenile Delinquency
Chapter 24: Kennedy and Johnson Years
1st TV debate
Richard Nixon
Space Race
Kennedy’s plan for economic growth
Warren Court Cases
Due process
Special Olympics
Flexible response
Alliance For Progress
Peace Corp
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
Berlin Wall
La Brigada
Great Society
Medicare/Medicaid
Head Start
New Frontier
Apollo
Warren Commission
Great Society
Ch. 25: Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
SCLC
De facto segregation
Southern Resistance
President Johnson vs. President Kennedy on Civil Rights
Plessy v Ferguson
Freedom Rides
Malcolm X
Black Power
Little Rock
SNCC
James Meredith
Chicago Movement
Poverty
Thurgood Marshall
Brown v. Board of Education (good/bad)
Bus boycott
Civil Rights Act 1964
March on Washington
Filibuster/Cloture
Selma March
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Urban problems—Watts Riots/Kerner Commission
Chapter 26: Vietnam
Why Help France with Vietnam
Geneva Accords
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Domino Theory
Agent Orange
Teach-ins
Napalm
William Westmoreland
Johnson—fear of full scale invasion
Robert Kennedy
Tet Offensive
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dien Bien Phu
Thieu
Monk protesting (fire)
Vietminh
Invasion of Cambodia
Vietcong
Educational hearings on Vietnam
Vietnamization
Operation Rolling Thunder
Linkage
Ho Chi Minh trail
Kissinger
Nightly news coverage effects
My Lai
Credibility gap
Kent State
Hawks v Doves
Pentagon Papers
Tet Offensive
End of War…Results.
Pentagon papers
War Powers Act
Ch. 27: Politics of Protest
Free Speech Movement
Counterculture
Impact of Counterculture Movement (on fashion/music)
Feminist Movement—Equal Pay Act
Feminine Mystique-Betty Friedan
NOW
Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine
ERA
Opposition to ERA-Phyllis Schlafly
Title IX
Roe v. Wade
Latino Americans Organize
Repatriation
LULAC
American GI Forum
Cesar Chavez and UFW
Bilingual Education Act