Semester Test Review AP US History
Review main ideas from 1877 to the present only!
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What was Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy? Taft? Wilson?
How did TR react to imperialism?
Link the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary
Wilson drafted 14 Point Plan what was the goal of this plan?
What was Wilson’s idea behind the League of Nations?
How did TR feel about monopolies and trust?
What was FDR’s New Deal? What impact did it have on government powers? People? Budget?
How did Hoover respond to the Great Depression? How was his response different from FDR?
What is deficit spending?
What is laissez-faire?
What was the Great Society?
Compare the Great Society and the New Deal.
What were the criticisms on how FDR responded to
the Great Depression ?
How was FDR and LBJ alike in their response to
poverty? (HINTprograms)
How did the production of the car impact the USA?
Why were shanty towns called “Homerville’s”
Who ran against Hoover in 1932? What was the outcome of the 1932 election? What were the
campaign slogans?
How did Teddy Roosevelt impact conservation?
Why Teddy Roosevelt was called the “trust buster?”
Compare the 1920’s Red Scare to McCarthyism in 1950’s.
Why did Truman decided to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki instead of invade?
Who was president when Pearl Harbor was attacked? How did that President respond and get
the USA ready for war?
How were these policies alike & different: the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and Policy of
Containment?
What did the Truman Doctrine and Eisenhower Doctrine have in common?
Bay of Pigs Invasion/Cuban Missile Crisis
What were the Peace Corps? What did Kennedy hope to achieve through the Peace Corps?
Who was the President when the Little Rock 9 tried to go into a public school? How did that
president react to the crisis? What did his actions demonstrate?
Compare Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education 1954.
What was the goal of Détente under Richard Nixon? What countries did this focus on?
What president desegregated the military? What president was in office when the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 was passed? Who was president when the Civil Rights legislation of 1964
was passed?
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 state? The Voting Rights Act of 1965?
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What were the goals of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society? (list and describe)
What was the Progressive Era?
How were Progressives different from Populist?
What were major Progressive reforms that impacted the consumer the most?
What did the Populist want?
Who were the 3 Progressive presidents?
What was unique about Gerald Foed becoming President of the United States?
What was Nixon accused of during Watergate? What was the outcome for Nixon? What
impact did this have on the United States people?
Review the Washington Conference 1921, Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 and SALT agreement in
1970. What do these agreements have in common?
SALT I and II
What did Jimmy Carter hope would come out of the Camp David Accords?
How did the media get the USA into the Spanish American War?
How did the media impact the Vietnam War?
How did the media impact the USA and the Persian Gulf War 1991?
Why did Teddy Roosevelt push to build the Panama Canal?
Compare the League of Nations and the United Nations. What are the similarities? How are
they different? Why did the United Nations replace the League of Nations?
What were the Pentagon Papers? Why were they classified?
Why was the Korean conflict and Vietnam Conflicts called conflicts and not wars?
What was similar about the Vietnam Conflict and the Korean Conflict?
How did the War Powers Act change the American Presidency?
What was NAFTA? Why did Bill Clinton create NAFTA? What was NAFTA’s impact on the US
economy?
What was the main reason that George H. W. Bush sent the USA troops into the Persian Gulf
War? Who were we fighting? What areas (geography) were in question?
What was Reagan’s supply side economics? Trickle down effect?
What was Reagan’s STAR WARS? What was the greatest impact of STAR WARS? Negative
impact? Positive impact?
What were the problems farmers faced that were addressed by the Populist Party?
What is pluralism? How is pluralism evident in our country? How is this similar to the melting
pot theory?
What was Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal? How is similar to Johnson’s Great Society?
President T. Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson shared a similar
Progressive belief. What did they promote in terms of the government and responsibility for
the people?
How were the Populist and Progressive different? Alike?
What was important about the pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
What presidents moved the USA toward a “welfare state?” How did these men create a safety
net for the American people?
How did women in the 1960’s and 1970’s impact the environmental movement?