Mr. Homan
America in History 3, 6.0
Midterm Review
Chapter 35 - The Cold War Begins
1. Describe the policy of containment.
2. Define: The Truman Doctrine; domino theory; massive retaliation; Marshall Plan
3. In response to events in what part of the world did President Truman issue the Truman Doctrine?
4. Why was America so determined to stop communism from spreading to Western Europe?
5. Why was NATO formed?
6. What was the cause of the Korean War?
7. List the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
8. Identify examples of Americans’ civil liberties being limited or denied due to America’s fear of
communism.
9. How did the United States respond to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948?
10. What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
Chapter 36 - American Zenith (1952 - 1963)
1. Identify: Cuban Missile Crisis (cause, events, outcome); Bay of Pigs (cause, events, outcome); Betty
Friedan; the Peace Corps; the New Frontier;
2. What social developments of the 1950s let to the publications of The Feminine Mystique?
3. Identify the effects of the Interstate Highway Act.
4. Identify the effects of the G.I. Bill.
5. Identify the effects of the Baby Boom.
The Civil Rights Movement (Chapter 36 and 37)
1. How did the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education affect the attitudes of many
white southerners? How did that affect race relations in the South?
2. Identify the major provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
3. Identify: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Freedom Riders; the Black Power Movement;
4. How did Governor Orville Faubus respond to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of
Education? How did President Eisenhower respond?
5. What was the specific political purpose of the 1963 March on Washington?