Final Exam Review
Modern American History
During World War II, which jobs did women begin to fill as men headed off to war?
What finally brought an end to World War II?
What did the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) charged numerous Hollywood
figures with?
What impact did Joseph McCarthy have on American society?
Why did the United States become involved in Middle Eastern affairs after World War II?
In the 1930’s, what did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common?
By 1940, which country had gained control of most of Western Europe?
What led the government to evacuate Japanese Americans from the West Coast?
Why did the United States emerge from the Great Depression?
Which statement best describes satellite nations?
Upon which principle was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) based?
What was the United States goal in Latin America during the Cold War?
What was the purpose of the Manhattan Project?
What was the ultimate goal of the Allied island-hopping strategy?
Which statement best describes the Cold War?
What was a goal of the Marshall Plan?
How was Korea divided at the end of World War II?
What is the policy of making U.S. military power so strong that no enemy would attack for fear
of retaliation?
What was the result of the launching of Sputnik?
After World War II, what were most American women were expected to do?
In the 1950’s, what replaced many unique stores who had ties with the local community?
How did civil rights opponents react after watching television coverage of police brutality
against civil rights protesters?
What was the goal of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington (1963) participants?
What happened after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
How did the National Urban League help African Americans?
How did President Kennedy respond to the riot over James Meredith’s admission to the
University of Mississippi?
What was the goal of the Selma March?
Before his pilgrimage to Mecca, what did Malcolm X encourage African Americans to do?
President Truman ordered an end to discrimination in what?
What did the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education end?
How did Eisenhower use the Arkansas National Guard in 1957?
What were Freedom Rides supposed to test?
What did the Black Panthers want African Americans to do?
In 1961, what did President Kennedy commit NASA and the nation to do?
Which was a major part of Johnson’s Great Society?
What happened as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Which brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war?
Which best describes the guiding principle behind the foreign policies of Kennedy and Johnson?
Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall?
Peace Corps volunteers worked in poor areas around the world. What was their goal?
What was a goal of the American Indian Movement?
What caused women’s frustration that led to the women’s movement of the 1960s?
During the Vietnam War, what role did television play?
What were people who opposed fighting the war on moral or religious grounds known as?
What principle, described by President Eisenhower, became associated with American
involvement in Southeast Asia?
How did the Vietnam War affect the United States?
Why did the Vietnam War finally end in 1975?
What was an outcome of the Watergate scandal?
What was the greatest foreign policy accomplishment during the Nixon years?
Why did Gerald Ford pardon Richard Nixon?
President Carter assumed the role of peacemaker to negotiate which of the following between
Israel and Egypt?
What factor contributed to Ronald Reagan defeating President Carter in the 1980 presidential
election?
What distinction did Sandra Day O’Connor achieve in 1981?
How did the Soviet policies of perestroika and glasnost help bring an End to the Cold War?
Why did President George H. W. Bush respond forcefully to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in the
early 1990s?
Why did the Persian Gulf War begin in the early 1990s?
What did American foreign policy in the post–Cold War era focus on?
What is the focus of affirmative action?