I. MUSH Exam Review
Dow Jones Industrial
Average
Speculation
Buying On Margin
Black Tuesday
The Great Depression
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Shantytown/Hooverville
Soup Kitchen
Dust Bowl
Direct relief
Herbert Hoover
Boulder Dam
Federal Home Loan Bank
Act
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New Deal
Federal Securities Act
Agricultural Adjustment
Act (AAA)
Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC)
National Industrial
Recovery Act (NIRA)
Deficit Spending
Charles Coughlin
Dr. Francis Townsend
Huey Long
Works Progress
Administration (WPA)
Wagner Act
Social Security Act
Joseph Stalin
Five Year Plans
Collectivization
Communism
Totalitarianism
Benito Mussonlini
Fascism
Adolf Hitler
Beer Hall Putsch
Mein Kampf (4 themes)
Nazism
Francisco Franco
Japanese UltraNationalists
Neutrality Acts
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Appeasement
Nonaggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
Ardennes
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Battle of Britain
Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Genocide
Ghetto
St. Louis
Maus
Concentration Camp
Final Solution
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Atlantic Charter
Hideki Tojo
Cash and Carry
Destroyers for Bases
Undeclared Naval War
Oil Embargo
Pearl Harbor
George Marshall
WAAC
A. Philip Randolph
Manhattan Project
OPA
WPB
War in the Atlantic
Stalingrad
African/Italian
“Sideshows”
Air War over Europe
D-day
Omar Bradley
George S. Patton
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day
Harry S. Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz
Battle of Midway
Kamikaze
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Nuremberg Trials
GI Bill of Rights
James Farmer
CORE
Internment and JACL
United Nations (U.N)
Structure/Function
Satellite nation(s) = buffer
zone
Containment
Iron Curtain
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
Chiang Kai-shek = Jiang
Jeishi
Mao Tse Tung = Mao
Zedong
Taiwan
38th Parallel
Korean War
HUAC
Hollywood 10
Blacklist
Alger Hiss
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthyism
H-bomb
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Allen Dulles
Brinkmanship
Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA)
Warsaw Pact
Eisenhower Doctrine
Nikita Khrushchev
Francis Gary Powers
U-2 Incident
G.I. Bill of Rights
Suburb
Harry S. Truman
Dixiecrat
Fair Deal
Conglomerate
Franchise
Baby Boom
Dr. Jonas Salk
Consumerism
Planned Obsolescence
Mass Media
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC)
Beat Movement
Rock ‘n’ Roll
Jazz
Urban Renewal
Bracero
Termination Policy
John F. Kennedy
Flexible Response
Fidel Castro
Berlin Wall
Hot Line
Limited Test Ban Treaty
New Frontier
Mandate
Peace Corps
Alliance for Progress
Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
Lyndon Baines Johnson
(LBJ)
Economic Opportunity Act
Great Society
Medicare and Medicaid
Immigration Act of 1968
Warren Court
Reapportionment
Thurgood Marshall
Linda Brown & Brown v.
Board of Education of
Topeka
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr. &
Civil Disobedience
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Letter from a Birmingham
Jail
Birmingham Protest
Bull O’Connor
CORE (Congress of Racial
Equality)
Freedom Riders
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee)
Sit-Ins
March on Washington & “I
Have a Dream” Speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964
De Facto & De Jure
Segregation
Malcom X
Nation of Islam
Stokely Carmichael &
Black Power
Black Panthers
Kerner Commission
Civil Rights Act of 1968
(Ends Housing
Discrimination)
Affirmative Action
French Indochina
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Cong
Dien Bien Phu
Ngo Din Diem
Domino Theory
Green Beret
Strategic Hamlet Program
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Operation Rolling Thunder
Ground War (3 phases)
TET Offensive
Richard Nixon
Vietnamization
Cambodia
Kent State
Henry Kissinger
Fall of Saigon
War Powers Act
II. Short Answers (Answer with short bullets from class, but complete sentences)
These may also be included as multiple choice, matching or fill in the blank ?s)
1. Summarize the serious problems plaguing the U.S. economy in the late 1920s.
2. Describe the four events leading up to the Great Depression
3. Discuss the impact of the Great Depression on the US and the rest of the world.
4. How did the Depression impact Americans living in the city and the countryside?
5. What impact did the Great Depression have on the life of men, women and children?
6. What were the social and psychological impacts of the Depression?
7. How did Hoover's personal philosophy about the federal government's role in providing direct
economic relief to families influence his initial responses to the Depression?
8. Summarize Hoover’s three direct interventions to help end the Depression and their overall
effectiveness.
9. Who was FDR and how did his personal background and beliefs shape his responses to the
Great Depression?
10. Describe the major programs of FDR’s New Deals and know which programs specifically
reformed American banking/finance.
11. Who were FDR’s three critics on the left and what did they propose?
12. Describe the purpose and major programs of the Second New Deal
13. How did the Second New Deal help factory workers, the sick and elderly, and the rural poor?
14. How did Joseph Stalin establish a totalitarian state in Communist Russia between the wars?
15. How did Benito Mussolini establish a totalitarian Fascist state in Italy after WW I?
16. What goals did Hitler share in Mein Kampf and how did he and the Nazis ultimately seize
power in Germany?
17. Why and how did Ultra-nationalists seize control of Japan and Manchuria
18. Why and how did Americans embrace isolationism and neutrality laws after WW I?
19. How did Britain and France respond to Hitler's demands for Anschluss in Austria and the
Sudetenland?
20. Analyze the 1939 Polish Blitzkrieg, 1940 Battle of France, and 1940 Battle of Britain by
reviewing both side’s forces and goals, who won and why, and the battle's ultimate significance.
21. When did the Holocaust officially begin and why didn’t the German Jews just flee Germany?
22. List all the various groups that the Nazis targeted for destruction.
23. Where and when did “The Final Solution” to Germany’s Jewish Problem begin and why didn’t
more Jews and Germans oppose the Holocaust?
24. What 7 Steps did FDR take to try and bypass the American people and neutrality laws in order
to save England and help get the U.S. into the war?
25. How did the U.S. mobilize its industry, labor movement, and scientists for the war effort?
26. What steps did the U.S. Federal government take to control inflation, fund the war, increase
the efficiency of wartime production and make sure the troops received the supplies they
needed to win the war?
27. Summarize the Allied game plan for winning the war in Europe.
28. Identify the key final (5) battles in Europe.
29. Identify the 4 key turning points in the Pacific war.
30. Explain the development and debate over the bomb.
31. Describe the Allies’ challenges in creating a just and lasting peace.
32. Describe the economic and social changes that accompanied life on the American Home Front.
33. Summarize the opportunities and discrimination that African Americans and other minorities
faced during the war.
34. Explain the origins of the Cold War Conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
35. Summarize the steps taken to contain Soviet influence.
36. Describe how the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan deepened Cold War tensions.
37. Explain how conflicts over Germany increased fear of Soviet aggression..
38. Summarize the main events and significance of the Korean War.
39. Describe the Truman Administration and Congress' efforts to investigate the loyalty of U.S.
citizens.
40. Describe the rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his crusade to investigate
Communist influence in the U.S.
41. Explain the policy of brinkmanship.
42. Describe how the Cold War conflict impacted the history of Iran, Guatemala, and the Middle
East.
43. Summarize the impact of Sputnik and the U-2 incident on the United States.
44. Identify the economic and social problems Americans faced after WW II.
45. Compare and contrast Truman and the Republicans' approach to labor relations in America.
46. Describe the causes and consequences of social unrest in the postwar period.
47. Compare and contrast the Truman and Eisenhower administrations' domestic policies.
48. Explain how changes in business impacted workers.
49. Describe the suburban lifestyle of the 1950s.
50. Identify the causes and effects of the auto industry boom.
51. Explain the increase in consumerism in the 1950s.
52. Explain how televisions programming in the 1950s reflected middle class values.
53. Explain how the beat movement and rock n' roll music clashed with middle class values.
54. Explain how the white migration to the suburbs created an urban crisis.
55. Describe the stages and consequences of America’s evolving Native American Indian policies.
56. Identify the factors that helped J.F.K. defeat Nixon.
57. What was the Kennedy Mystique?
58. What new foreign policy & military tool did JFK introduce?
59. What was the Cuban Dilemma and how did it develop into a crisis during JFK’s presidency?
60. What was the Berlin Crisis of the early 1960s and how did it help symbolize the larger Cold
War?
61. Summarize JFK's New Frontier domestic & foreign agendas.
62. Describe the political talents & path that gave LBJ the W.H.
63. Summarize the goals of Johnson's Great Society.
64. Identify the reforms of the Warren Court and evaluate their success.
65. Compare Northern and Southern segregation.
66. Summarize the accomplishments of the civil rights movement.
III. Essays (Two will be on the test, you will write on one of the two. Prepare simple outlines for 3. For
our party write a five paragraph essay with a proper intro, thesis, body paragraphs with topic
sentences, claims and evidence, conclusions are optional but helpful)
1. Describe the programs of FDR’s New Deal, how they specifically addressed the causes of
the Great Depression and restored American’s faith in their economy, and the long term
consequences of the New Deal.
2. What steps did the U.S. Congress take to help keep the U.S. out of WW II and what 7
steps did FDR take to bypass the Congress, help the Allies, and get America into the war.
3. Discuss America’s second communist scare by analyzing the evidence of a communist
conspiracy (accused communists), the Presidential and Congressional responses, and the
long term consequences of the Second Red Scare.
4. Were the 1950s a time of conformity and conservatism or a Progressive period of racial
and social change that set the stage for the women rights and student protests of the
1960s? Provide at least 3 evidence-based arguments in support of your position.
5. What events and ideas caused the U.S. to become militarily involved in Vietnam, how did
the war impact the U.S. military, presidency and people, and what were its long-term
consequences?