APUSH EXAM REVIEW GUIDE
SOCIAL CHANGE AFTER WWII: 1945-2005
General Social Change
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What was the “American Dream” of the immediate post WWII era? What events and
legislation allowed the achievement of that dream for many Americans?
What political and social changes took place as a result of America’s new post WWII
prosperity? How did those changes reshape the American identity?
How were the New Frontier and Great Society programs designed to reshape America?
What examples of those policies were enacted?
Following the Johnson administration, what major political, social, and economic policies
were created in the hope of improving American society?
The Cold War At Home
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What was McCarthyism? What major events took place during McCarthyism and why
was it allowed to continue? Assess the overall results of McCarthyism.
Prior to McCarthyism, what similar challenges to individual’s rights took place? What
similar challenges have occurred following McCarthyism?
What legislative attempts (specific and general) were made to fight communism in the
U.S.?
Trace the development of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. What were its roots and
inspirations? What major moments took place in the movement?
How did hippies and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement redefine American’s perception
of the government? What has been their lasting legacy?
Civil Rights
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What were the two major strands of the Black Civil Rights Movement? What leaders
rose to the forefront of each branch of the movement, what organizations did they form,
and what were the goals and methods of those organizations?
Trace the major moments of the Black Civil Rights Movement. When did it begin?
When did it end? How well was it supported by the U.S. government?
In what ways was the Black Civil Rights Movement simply an attempt by blacks to
guarantee rights already established by legislation?
What other major civil rights movements developed in the U.S.? What were the roots of
those movements? Who were the leaders and what were they fighting for? How
successful were they?
Key Terms/Concepts
Key People
GI Bill of Rights
Executive Order 9981
Levittowns
Interstate Highway Act/“Car Culture”
New Frontier
Great Society
War on Drugs
“Reaganomics”
Monicagate
Oklahoma City Federal Building
USA PATRIOT Act
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Hurricane Katrina/FEMA
McCarthyism
HUAC
“Naming Names”
“Pumpkin Papers”
McCarthy-Army Hearings
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock Crisis
SCLC
Greensboro Sit-ins
SNCC
Freedom Rides
March on Birmingham
March on Washington
Freedom Summer
24th Amendment
Civil Rights Act (1964)
March on Selma
Voting Rights Act (1965)
race riots
Kerner Report
1968 Olympic Games
United Farm Workers (UFW)
Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Roe v. Wade
“Red Power”/Occupation of Alcatraz
Stonewall Riots
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Draft Lottery
Kent State
Harry S. Truman
Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower
William Levitt
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
Timothy McVeigh
Alger Hiss
The Rosenbergs
Joseph McCarthy
Hollywood Ten
Robert Kennedy
Emmett Till
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Bobby Seale
Huey Newton
Black Panthers
John Carlos
Tommie Smith
Cesar Chavez
Betty Friedan
Harvey Milk
Beatniks
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Allen Ginsburg
Hippies
Tom Wolfe