APUSH Unit 8 Test Review
1. Potsdam Conference
2. Truman’s domestic programname, successes and failures
3. Truman’s record on civil
Rights—what did he
accomplish? What were his
thoughts on Civil Rights?
4. Containment—what is it?
Examples of? Was it successful
or not?
5. The Cold War-origins and
significant events in Truman’s
presidency
6. Berlin-symbolized? Division of,
airlift
7. GI Bill
8. Social changes in America post
WWII
9. Sunbelt states-why the shift?
10. 22 Amendment
11. 1948 election results
12. the UN
13. satelittle nations of Eastern
Europe
14. Iron Curtain
15. Kennan’s long telegram
16. NATO
17. NSC-68
18. Post WWII Japan
19. Post WWII Philipines
20. Communist revolution in China
21. Chiang Kai Shek and Mao
Zedong
22. Taiwan
23. Korean War—origins, major
events, armistice, results
24. Firing of MacArthur
25. Second Red Scare
26. McCarthyism
27. Spy cases
28. HUAC
29. Eisenhower—how he won by a
landslide…
30. Modern Republicanism
31. Interstate highway system
32. Dulles’ brinkmanship
33. Massive retaliation
34. MAD
35. Influence of third world
countries
36. Use of covert operations
37. Fall of Indochina
38. Geneva Conference
39. Khruschev
40. SEATO
41. Suez Crisis
42. Eisenhower Doctrine
43. OPEC
44. Sputnik
45. Second Berlin Crisis
46. US incident
47. Communism in Cuba
48. Military industrial complex
49. Ike’s role in civil rights
50. Brown v Board
51. Pop culture of 50s
52. Women’s role in 50s
53. Conformity vs. nonconformity
54. Influence of TV, ads, music and
corporate America in 50s
55. Beat generation
56. Kennedy’s election-how was he
different? Why was the election
so close?
57. New Frontier—success and
failures
58. Bay of Pigs
59. Cuban Missile Crisis
60. Kennedy’s response to Vietnam
61. Alliance for Progress
62. Berlin Wall
63. Flexible response
64. Assassination in 1963
65. Johnson’s Great Society
66. Johnson’s record on Civil
Rights
67.