Contemporary US History Mid-Term Review
Directions: Use this guide to help you review for your mid-term. You should look over your
notebook and review each chapter beginning with Ch. 38 through Ch. 48. The mid-term will be
a cumulative exam on everything we studied from post WWII America through the Age of
Camelot.
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Josef Stalin
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
George C. Marshall
Alger Hiss
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Hollywood Ten
Joseph McCarthy
Dr. Spock
Elvis Presley
William J. Levitt/Levitt Brothers
Jackson Pollack
Jack Kerouac
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
John F Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Important people and groups from civil rights timeline and others fighting for civil rights
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(NOW, Chavez, JACL, ADA…)
TERMS / CONCEPTS TO KNOW:
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Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference
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(define, identify who participated, what the issues/concerns were, & what the goals & results
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Stalin’s concerns and plans for Post WII Soviet Union
Satellite nations
Iron curtain
Cold War
Containment
Truman Doctrine
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(define, first used ?, & immediate result of)
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Issues between USA and SU postwar years 1945-1950
Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
Berlin Blockade
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Causes & Outcomes of Korean War
HUAC
Effects of McCarthyism
INF Treaty
Army-McCarthyism Hearings
Truman’s Fair Deal
Taft-Hartley Act (define & explain why needed)
Characteristics of the 1950s
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(Consumerism, planned obsolescence, service industries, General Motors, franchises…)
blue collar vs. white collar jobs
Beatnik
Effects of franchises on economy
Effect of transistor on technology
Role of men & women in 1950s
Why did young people embrace rock-n-roll
How did TV effect the economy
DOT activity & its connections to history
Political party of President’s we have studied
United Nations
Communism Terms
Democracy Terms
Election of 1960
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall
Test Ban Treaty
The “Other America”
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(Think Little Boxes)
GNP in US in 1950s
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(define, goals, Soviet reactions)
(causes, groups, effects…)
Civil Rights and nonviolence
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(Timeline-African Americans and other groups)
(aspects of life affected by segregation ; de jure and de facto segregation)
(Executive Order 9981, Brown vs, Board, Watts, affirmative action, equal rights amendment,
ADA Act)
You need to bring a # 2
pencil with you to the exam.