Name _________________________________ Mods____________
Answer the following
questions below.
1. Explain the rise of
dictatorships after World War I in the following countries:
2. How did the Treaty of
Versailles impact World War II?
3. What were women’s roles
during World War II?
4. How and why did the
5. Why did Truman decide to
drop the atomic bomb?
6.
What did the American government do to stop wartime inflation?
7. When and what is V-E Day?
There will be a map on
There will be a question
about the Holocaust and sources.
There will be a reading on
There will be a graph on
defense spending and unemployment.
8. Why did the Cold War
start between the
9. What was the Truman
Doctrine?
10. How did Douglas
MacArthur view the war in
11. What did the armistice
say that ended the Korean War?
12. What are the major
differences between capitalism and communism?
13. What was the Berlin
Blockade? Why did the Soviets do this?
14. Why did the
15. What happened during McCarthyism? What impact did it have on
50’s society?
16. Define suburbia.
17. Define Truman Doctrine.
18. Define domino theory.
19. Define consumerism.
20. Define: de facto, de
jure segregation.
21. What was the decision in
the Brown vs. the Board of Education?
What decision did it overturn?
22.
Define Black Power.
23.
Who is associated with Black Power?
24.
What events contributed to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
25.
What did the Voting Rights Act say?
1960’s – JFK
and LBJ
26.
What issues did the
27.
What were the factors that contributed to the election of John F. Kennedy in
1960?
28.
What was the Great Society? What programs did it begin? There will also be a
reading on the Great Society.
29.
There will be a reading on the Berlin Wall. Why was it built?
30.
What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis? How was it resolved?
Name _________________________________ Mods____________
Answer the following
questions below.
Chapter 18 - Cold War
31. Define arms
race.
32. Define
satellite nations.
33. Define Cold
War.
34. Define
blacklisting.
Chapter 19 - 1950s Life
35. Define baby
boom.
36. Define
planned obsolescence.
Chapter 20 -
JFK and LBJ
37. Define and explain the
New Frontier.
38. What was created and
funded by Kennedy’s New Frontier?
39. What was the main reason
for the construction of the Berlin Wall? What was JFK’s involvement in
40. Define and explain the
Bay of Pigs Incident.
41. Define and explain the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
42. Define and explain the
Peace Corps.
43. Define and explain the
Warren Commission. What conclusions did it reach?
44. Define and explain the
Great Society.
45. Define and explain Miranda v.
46. Define and explain Gideon v. Wainwright.
47. Define and explain
Medicaid.
48. Define and explain
Medicare.
49. Define and explain the
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
50. What was the “space race?” What the events
are a part of this technological push?
Chapter 21 - Civil Rights
51. According to the Kerner Commission, what was
the main cause of urban
violence?
52. Define
boycott.
53. Define
white flight.
54. Define
black power.
55. Define
civil disobedience.
56. Define
non-violent resistance.
Name _________________________________ Mods____________
Answer the following
questions below.
Chapter 22 - Vietnam
War
57. What tactic was used effectively by the
Vietcong to attack the
58. How did the Vietcong get information about US
troop movements and supplies?
59. What were the battles of the Vietnam War
like?
60. What was tactic that was used most frequently
by the
61. How effective were the guerilla tactics used
in the Vietnam War?
62. How did students react to the end of college deferments
for the
63. What were the psychological issues that led
to massacres like the killings of the
Chapter 23
64. What inspired the modern feminist movement?
65. Which law was proposed specifically to
address the complaints of women that were not adequately dealt with under the
Civil Rights Act of 1964?
66. What is the ERA? How did it fail?
67. Who made up the
counterculture?
68. What were the forces that
weakened the counter-culture movement?
69. Who was Cesar Chavez? What did he do?
70. Define and explain AIM. What were their goals?
71. Define and explain
feminism.
72. Define and explain Roe v. Wade.
73. Define and explain
74. Define and explain NOW.
75. Define and explain
There will be a reading on the
space race.
There will be a graph on
opinions about the Vietnam War.
There will be a Venn diagram
on minority groups in the
Possible Essay Questions:
1. Connection between the Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education cases.
2. Mobilization of American
society following
3. Explain the impact of
franchising in business on American society.
4. Explain reasons for AND
against the
5. Know what groups of people
have been targeted as “disloyal” during American history.