APUSH LAST UNIT REVIEW:
50 Multiple Choice Questions
1 DBQ from 1941--1991
Broad Topics:
U.S. Entry into WWII
WWII: The Home Front
The Cold War
America in the 50’s & 60”s
Civil Rights Movement
Essential Facts:
1968
AIM
America First Committee
Atlantic Charter
Bay of Pigs
Beat Generation
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Betty Friedan
Black Muslims
Black Panthers
Brinkmanship/Massive Retaliation
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Castro
Cesar Chavez
Chicano Movement
China
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Containment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Détente
Diane Nash
Dixiecrats
Douglas MacArthur
Eisenhower
Election of 1960
ERA
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9981
Fair Deal
FDR
Freedom riders
George Kennan
GI Bill
Glasnost”
Good Neighbor Policy
Grape & lettuce boycott
Great Society
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Henry Kissinger
Hitler
Holocaust
HUAC
Iran-contra scandal
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Isolationism
Japanese Internment
Joe McCarthy
John Foster Dulles
John Kennedy
John Lewis
Joseph Stalin
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Kent State
Khrushchev
Korean War
Korematsu v. U.S
Little Rock
Lyndon Johnson/LBJ
Malcolm X
March on Washington
Marshall Plan
Martin Luther King, Jr.
McCarthyism
Mikhail Gorbachev
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Munich conference
Mussolini
NAACP
National Security Act of 1947
New Frontier
NOW
Perestroika
Reaganomics
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Rosenbergs
SALT
SCLC
Sit-Ins
SNCC
Sputnik
Suburbia
Taft-Hartley Act
TET Offensive
The Feminine Mystique
Tojo
Truman
United Farm Workers
Vietnam War
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Warren Court
Washington Conference
Watergate
Winston Churchill
Yalta
1.
Which policy/program is incorrectly matched with it’s President?
a. Ronald Reagan – Supply Side Economics
b. Dwight D. Eisenhower – Brinkmanship
c. Lyndon B. Johnson – War on Poverty
d. John F. Kennedy – New Frontier
e. Harry Truman – Great Society
2.
One of the Goals of Reaganomics was to
a. Reduce the United States nuclear arsenal
b. Restrict immigration from Mexico
c. Outsource United States manufacturing to Asian countries
d. Encourage private investment in the economy through tax cuts for businesses and the
wealthy
e. Redistribute income to the bottom fifth of wage earners
3.
Which of the following best describes possible reasons for Japanese aggression in 1941?
a. The United States provided military support to Great Britain who was fighting to dislodge
Japan from the British colony of Hong Kong.
b. The United States refused to allow Japanese diplomats and negotiators from leaving
Washington D.C.
c. After Japan occupied French-Indochina the United States placed an oil embargo on Japan in
an attempt to force their withdrawal.
d. The United States angered over Japanese alliance with Germany and Italy, provided
weapons to France to force the Japanese to withdrawal from French-Indochina.
e. The United States in response to the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay in China retaliated and sunk
the Japanese Destroyer, Yamamoto
4.
By the late 1950s, television
a. portrayed lifestyles that did not fit the idealized image of the suburban norm as threatening
and unnatural
b. replaced radio, newspapers, and magazines as the most important vehicle of information
c. helped relieve social tensions by allowing those unable to share in the affluence of their
neighbors to feel a part of that life through popular shows
d. failed to provide shows that reflected the role of family
e. reached only a small portion of the population because most people could not afford a set
5.
One major purpose of the Taft-Hartley Act was to
a. provide reforms of the campaign finance system
b. urge an end to the Korean War
c. promote human rights abroad
d. place an embargo on trade with communist nations
e. limit the power of labor unions
6.
Eisenhower’s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles
a. supported a return to traditional isolationism rather than continued to support the Truman
administration’s containment policy
b. proposed a series of summit meetings between Eisenhower and Soviet leaders to improve
relations between the two nations
c. announced a new policy of “massive retaliation,” threatening the use of nuclear weapons to
counter communist aggression
d. did not want the United States to become involved in foreign alliances
e. internationalism