US and Global 4 EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Civil Rights
1. What strategies did MLK Jr. and SCLC use?
2. Why was SNCC formed?
3. Why did MLK Jr. Choose Birmingham to demonstrate?
4. What were the ideas of the black power movement?
5. How did the National Urban League help African-Americans?
6. How are SCLC and CORE similar?
7. What was the highlight of the march on Washington?
8. What did Malcolm X encourage African-Americans to do?
9. What were results of the civil rights movement?
10. What was the decision of Brown v. Board?
11. What did the National Guard enforce in 1957?
12. What did MLK and Gandhi have in common?
13. What was often an outcome of sit-ins?
14. Why were the freedom riders organized?
15. What was James Meredith’s role in the civil rights?
16. Who wrote “letter from Birmingham jail”?
17. Selma March and freedom summer called attention to what?
18. What did the black panthers want African-Americans to do?
19. Who was assassinated in 1968?
Kennedy/Johnson
20. What did JFK promise in his 1960 presidential campaign?
21. By how much did Kennedy win the 1960 election?
22. What did the warren commission decide?
23. What were major aspects of Johnson’s Great Society?
24. What did critics say about the Great Society?
25. What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
26. What was the purpose of the Alliance for Progress that Kennedy set up?
27. What was the goal of the New Frontier?
28. Why was Kennedy’s domestic policies a success?
29. What was the effect of Johnson’s tax cut bill?
30. What brought the US and Soviets to the brink of war?
31. What was the major principles behind Kennedy and Johnson’s foreign policy?
32. How did Kennedy look on the presidential debate vs. Nixon?
33. How did the US support the Bay of Pigs invasion?
34. Why did the soviets build the Berlin wall?
Vietnam
35. What was Kennedy’s policy in Vietnam?
36. How did escalation in Vietnam begin?
37. What was a US military strategy that hurt Vietnamese citizens?
38. Why was the television important during the Vietnam War?
39. Why did American’s question the fairness of the draft?
40. What is a contentious objector?
41. How did the Vietnam War in 1975?
42. Why did the US get involved in Vietnam? (what did we fear)
43. What congressional action gave Johnson broad powers in the war?
44. What did the United States fear would happen if it did not get involved in Vietnam?
45. What congressional action gave President Johnson the authority to escalate the Vietnam War?
46. What were the conditions that Americans faced fighting in Vietnam?
47. What did Television coverage of the Vietnam War do?
48. What was the primary focus of the protest movement of the 1960s?
49. Tensions between students who opposed the war and National Guardsmen resulted in four deaths at what
major university?
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In 1970, President Nixon announced that American forces would invade which country?
How did the Vietnam War finally end in 1975?
Who was the nationalist leader who led Vietnam against the French?
Why did President Kennedy support the government of Ngo Dinh Diem?
Why did South Vietnamese military leaders overthrow Diem?
What was President Johnson’s objective in Vietnam?
What did Congress do after the North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin?
Fighting conditions for American soldiers included what fears from the Viet Cong?
What were some advantages the Viet Cong guerrillas had?
In fighting the North Vietnamese, United States forces used what military tactic?
Many young people in the 1960s had freedom and opportunities unknown to previous generations, thanks
to what?
The student protest movement of the 1960s emerged from what movement?
What were the issues dividing the country during the election of 1968?
Who was the winner of the 1968 election?
What did Nixon do as he withdrew American troops from Vietnam?
What reignited student protests in 1970?
What were legacies of the Vietnam War?
OGT REVIEW
67. What was a key reason for the creation of the Federal Reserve System?
68. How could the Federal Reserve System encourage banks to lend out more of their reserves(cash)?
69. How did the U.S. government’s role in the economy change as a result of the Great Depression?
70. What did the collapse of the American economic system lead to?
71. What is the relationship between interest rates and demand for money?
72. In a command economy, the question of what goods to produce is primarily determined by who?
73. An entrepreneur would have the best chance for success in what form of economy?
74. What would be typical in a country that has a traditional economy?
75. Who has the power of the consumer in the market?
76. What was a common factor in the United States that caused the Red Scare following WWI and
McCarthyism following WWII?
77. What was the growth of McCarthyism in the early 1950’s based on?
78. What economic factor primarily contributed to the movement of African-Americans from the South to the
North in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
79. What was the Marshall Plan was designed for?
80. A government in which the leader typically uses the threat of force to maintain control of the government is
known as what?
81. Citizens in presidential democracies and parliamentary democracies typically achieve governmental change
by what?
82. Under what system of government are leaders typically chosen by church officials or religious elders?
83. In an absolute monarchy, how does the ruler get to be in power?
84. What type of government has the greatest opportunity for citizen participation?
85. The words “Everything within the state, nothing out of the state, nothing against the state” describe what
type of government?