Spring Final Exam Review

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Spring Final Exam Review

Your final exam will include:

multiple choice questions
short answer questions

BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK TO THE FINAL EXAM OR YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THE BOOK

To prepare for the exam please review the following:

1) These terms and concepts are all possible multiple-choice questions:

World War II J. Robert Oppenheimer Kamikaze Iwo Jima Island hopping Normandy Dwight D. Eisenhower D-Day VE Day VJ Day Battle of the Bulge rationing Rosie the Riveter Japanese-American Internment Enola Gay Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bomb Manhattan Project Yalta Conference Harry Truman Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1950’s HUAC Hollywood Ten Blacklist Senator Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism – effects Baby boom Levittown Consumerism Cover music rock n' roll (including reviewed musicians) Harry Truman
Cold War Korean Way containment brinkmanship U-2 spy plane Francis Gary Powers Satellite reconnaissance Marshall Plan Berlin Airlift North Atlantic Treaty Organization Warsaw Pact Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy	Civil Rights Movement Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks Sit-ins Brown v. Board of Education Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Southern Christian Leadership Conference Dr. Martin Luther King Freedom Rider Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Emmet Till
Vietnam War Ho Chi Minh Vietminh Domino theory Tonkin Gulf Resolution Vietcong Ho Chi Minh Trail Robert McNamara Dean Rusk William Westmoreland Agent Orange Credibility gap Tet Offensive Eugene McCarthy George Wallace Henry Kissinger Vietnamization Agent Orange Napalm tunnel networks winning hearts and minds jungle warfare anti-war movement

2) Two of these essay questions will appear on the final exam:

>Consider the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement. Which event had the greater influence on America and why? Include the long-term effects in your discussion.

>Compare and contrast the role that the U.S. played in the World War II and Vietnam. Be sure to include the circumstances under which America entered each war, how the war was perceived on the home front and the motivation of military involvement.

>How has your concept of America changed over the course of this class? Refer to specific events when describing how your impressions or opinions may have changed.

>Compare and contrast the presidencies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Consider and discuss the challenges that they faced as well as the decisions that each president made.

You may bring in ONE three by five inch index card and fill each side with your smallest letters possible. This card can be used only during the essay portion of the exam.