Name _____________________
US II Final Exam Review
Exam Format:
1. 50 Multiple Choice Questions (1pts each)
2. 1 Essay (20 pts)
3. Document Analysis (30 pts)
Steps to Success:
1. Review all of your old tests and quizzes
2. Review posttest outlines from class lessons
3. Review all of your completed outlines for extra
information / textual information
4. If necessary re-read chapters from you text. Chapters
25-31 will be covered
Key Terms: Be sure to Understand and explain: Who / What, Where, When and HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. This is NOT
an exhaustive list; any information we covered this semester is fair game.
Depression / New Deal
1. POUR
2. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
3. Banking Holiday
4. National Industrial Recovery
Act
5. Civil Works Administration
6. Public Works Administration
7. Civilian Conservation Corps
8. Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act
9. Works Progress
Administration
10. Wagner Act
11. New Deal
12. Glass-Steagall Act
13. Dust Bowl
14. Social Security Act
15. Harlem Renaissance
16. First v. Second New Deal
17. Ending of the Depression
18. Roosevelt Recession
19. Agricultural Adjustment Act
Foreign Policy pre-WWII
20. Washington Naval
Conference
21. Kellogg-Briand Pact
World War II
22. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini’s
rise to power
23. American Business in
Germany 1930
24. Neutrality Acts
25. Kristallnacht
26. Lend-Lease Program
27. Pearl Harbor
28. Selective Service and
Training Act
29. Appeasement
30. Manhattan Project
31. Executive Order 8802 / 9066
32. Rosie the Riveter
33. Women in the Workforce
34. Office of War Information
35. Japanese Internment
36. Zoot Suit Riots
37. D-Day
38. Racism during Wartime
The Cold War Era
39. Decolonization and the Third
World
40. National Security Act (1947)
41. Marshall Plan
42. Suburbs
43. Consumerism
44. Mao Zedong
45. Formosa Resolution
46. NATO
47. Korean War
48. Truman Doctrine
49. Joe McCarthy / McCarthyism
50. George Kennan
51. Policy of Containment
52. Iron Curtain
53. Consumerism
54. Massive Retaliation
55. Brinksmanship
56. Duck and Cover
57. Berlin Airlift
58. Mutually Assured Destruction
59. First, Second and Third World
60. Cuban Missile Crisis
61. Bay of Pigs
62. Levittowns
63. Federal Housing
Administration
64. Taft-Hartley Act
65. Fair Deal
66. U2 Spy Plane
Civil Rights / Women’s Rights
67. Freedom Riders
68. Students for a Democratic
Society
69. Thurgood Marshal
70.
71.
72.
73.
Freedom Summer
Dixiecrats
Martin Luther King Jr
Supreme Court and Civil
Rights
74. Little Rock Nine
75. Civil Rights Act
76. CORE
77. SNCC
78. Voting Rights Act
79. Malcolm X
80. Black Panthers
81. Counterculture
82. War on Poverty
Vietnam Era
83. George Kennan
84. John F. Kennedy
85. ROLLING THUNDER
86. Invasion of Cambodia
87. Paris Peace Talks
88. Dienbienphu
89. French Colonialism
90. The Great Society
91. Tet Offensive
92. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
93. War Powers Act
1960s-1970s
94. The “Silent Majority”
95. Open Door to China
96. Détente
97. Ho Chi Minh City
98. Vietnam Syndrome
99. Nexon Doctrine
100. ABM Treaty
101. CREEP
102. Watergate
Supreme Court
103. Korematsu v United States
104. Smith v. Allwright
105. Morgan v. Virginia
106. Shelley v. Kraemer
107. Brown v Board of Education
Essay:
You will be asked to respond to one essay topic from a selection of two. Below are example topics that may appear on the exam.
1. Discuss the similarities and differences between Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
2. Compare the US involvement in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. How did the US respond to each of these conflicts, and how did
the American public react to the government’s reaction to each?
3. Chart the Civil Rights debate from 1920-1980. What were the victories and setbacks of the movement?
4. Examine US foreign policy as it relates to the USSR. Discuss how the Cold War was conducted by US lawmakers.
Document Analysis
Review the lessons we’ve had in class regarding document analysis. Review your history of The New Deal, World War II, the Cold
War, the Red Scare, and the 1960s to prepare for this section. You will be asked to examine a series of documents and respond to
questions about each. Each document will be new to you; we have not examined them in the past.