Mr. Raudensky’s Final Exam Study Guide
Your final examination will consist of 150 objective questions dealing with all information from the
1920’s up through the present. In addition to your vocabulary sheets, textbooks, note sheets, and back
work from the second semester, you may also find this study guide to be helpful in your preparation for
the final examination.
Assume that you are engaged in a war against Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Union. Your initiative,
hard work, and creativity will determine who wins. This study guide is meant to give you a good
overview of the material on the final exam!
The 1920’s
Key People:
Calvin Coolidge
Mitchell Palmer
Warren Harding
Herbert Hoover
Henry Ford
John Scopes
Clarence Darrow
Gertrude Ederle
Babe Ruth
Charles Lindbergh
Louis Armstrong
Ty Cobb
Lou Gehrig
Amelia Earhart
Al Capone
J. Edgar Hoover
Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin
Bill Tilden
George Gershwin
Vocabulary:
Bootleggers
Prohibition
Flappers
Speakeasies
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
xenophobia
Mini Topics:
The Republican Years
Prohibition
The Red Scare
The Scopes Monkey Trial
The Great Depression
Key People:
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vocabulary:
Bull Market
Bear Market
Public Works
Business Cycle
Okies
Capitalism
Communism
Mini Topics:
Stock Market Crash
Causes of the Depression
The New Deal
The Dust Bowl
World War II
Key People:
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Hideki Tojo
Eleanor Roosevelt
Francisco Franco
Erwin Rommel
Winston Churchill
Fred Korematsu
Bernard Montgomery
George S. Patton
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz
Joseph Goebbels
Vocabulary:
Blitzkrieg
Island Hopping
Operation Overlord
Kamikaze
Manhattan Project
Trinity Test
Fascism
Militarism
Big Three
Mini Topics:
Origins of the War
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Pacific Theater
European Theater
WWII Dates
The Holocaust
Life of the Homefront
The Cold War (1950’s)
Key People:
Harry Truman
Francis Gary Powers
Nikita Khrushchev
Julius Rosenberg
John Lewis Gaddis
Kim Jong Un
John Foster Dulles
Joseph McCarthy
Kim Il Song
George Marshall
Vocabulary:
Communism
Espionage
Sputnik
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
NATO
Mini Topics:
Containment Theory
Korean War
Space Race
The Long Peace
The Red Scare
Bi-polar Power
The Cold War (1960’s)
Key People:
John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
Bob Dylan
Fidel Castro
Lyndon B. Johnson
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Shephard Jr.
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Vocabulary:
hippies
New Frontier
The Great Society
Berlin Wall
counterculture
Warren Commission
Mini Topics:
1960’s counterculture
JFK’s foreign policy
LBJ’s domestic policy
The Bay of Pigs
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Space Race
Civil Rights Movement
The Vietnam War
Key People:
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
William Westmoreland
Richard Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Pol Pot
Vocabulary:
Domino Theory
Napalm
Vietminh / Vietcong
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Escalation
Tet Offensive
Vietnamization
Khmer Rouge
Mini Topics:
North / South Advantages
Operation Rolling Thunder
Doves / Hawks
Results of the Vietnam War
Early conflicts in Vietnam
Genocide in Cambodia
The 1970’s and 1980’s
Key People:
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Bill Clinton
George Bush
Barack Obama
Vocabulary:
Impeach
Supply side economics
Watergate
Mini Topics:
9/11 & Bush Doctrine
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Iran Hostage Crisis