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11th Contemporary U. S. History
Final Review Sheet
Terms to know:
Equality
Rights
Liberty
Opportunity
Democracy
Cold War
Stalin
Roosevelt
Truman
Churchill
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
US Foreign Policy during Cold War
Marshall Plan
Korean War
Results of Korean War
Berlin Blockade
McCarthyism
FCDA
Planned Post-WWII Communities
Conformity
1950s Music, Literature, Art
The Other America
Impact of The Other America
Chicago 1960s
De Jure Segregation
De Facto Segregation
Filibustering
Executive Order 9981
Brown v. Board of Education
Martin Luther King Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Tactics used by King, Jr. and SCLC
Civil Rights Timeline
Watts Riots
Kerner Commission
Civil Rights Protest, Birmingham, Alabama (1963)
Civil Rights Act 1964
Freedom Summer
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Malcolm X
Black Panthers
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Affirmative Action
Equal Rights Amendment
Characteristics of JFK
JFK’s Economic Policies
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Goal of Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Quarantine
Peace Corps
Head Start
VISTA
Public Broadcasting Act
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson’s View of Federal Government
The Great Society
Criticisms of The Great Society
Immigration Act of 1965
Counterculture
Characteristics of the Counterculture
New Left
Views of the New L
The “Establishment”
Woodstock and its Outcomes
Geneva Accords (1954)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Domino Theory
Vietnam War
Viet Cong
Viet Minh
Americanization of Vietnam War
War of Attrition
Tet Offensive
Impacts of Tet Offensive
Agent Orange
Results of Vietnam War
Vietnamization of Vietnam War
American’s Reaction to the Vietnam War
American’s Reaction to Vietnam Veterans
Vietnam Syndrome
President Richard Nixon
Nixon’s New Federalism Policy
Stagflation
Outcome of Nixon’s Visit to China
Watergate Scandal
National Energy Act (1979)
President Carter
Carter’s Foreign Policy
Camp David Accords (1978 with Carter, el-Sadat-Egypt, and Begin-Israel)
Three Mile Island Incident
National Women’s Political Caucus
Characteristics of Liberals
Characteristics of Conservatives
President Reagan
Reagan’s Political Policies
Reagan’s Economic Policies
Supply-Side Economics
Strategic Defense Initiative
Reagan and Lebanon
Iran-Contra Affair
INF Treaty
President George H.W. Bush
Americans with Disabilities Act
Clinton’s Political Policies
Clinton’s Economic Policies
Clinton’s Successes
Clinton’s Failures
Dot-com Boom
Effects of Dot-com Boom
President George W. Bush
Persian Gulf War
Causes of the Persian Gulf War
Iraq War
Effects of the Iraq War
Ethnic Cleansing
Racial Profiling
Causes of Rise in Globalization
Effects of Rise in Globalization
Department of Homeland Security
VISA Restrictions
President George W. Bush’s Tools Against Terrorism
Essential Questions:
Ideally you should be able to answer these questions after each of the chapters/units/topics covered throughout the year. You should be using the terms/people/concepts from the previous pages to fully answer the essential questions.
What is History and why do we study it?
What are America’s founding ideals and why are they important?
How did the United States and the Soviet Union become Cold War adversaries?
Were the methods used by the United States to contain communism justified?
How did the anxieties raised by the Cold War affect life in the United States?
Why are the 1950’s remembered as an age of affluence?
How did some American’s rebel against conformity in the1950’s?
Why did poverty persist in the United States in an age of affluence?
How did segregation affect American life in the postwar period?
How did civil rights activists advance the ideals of liberty, equality, and opportunity for African Americans?
How did civil rights activists change their strategies and goals in the 1960’s and the 1970’s, and how successful were they in achieving racial equality?
Why and how did the civil rights movement expand?
Was JFK a great president?
What is the proper role of government in shaping American society?
What was the impact of the counterculture on American society?
Why did the United States increase its military involvement in Vietnam?
What made the Vietnam War difficult to win?
What lessons for Americans emerged from the Vietnam War?
What events influenced Richard Nixon’s rise to and fall from power?
How should historians characterize the 1970’s?
Was the Reagan Revolution good for the nation?
Were the effects of President Reagan’s foreign policy actions mostly positive or mostly negative?
To what extent did George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush fulfill their domestic policy goals?
How well did U.S. foreign policy decisions meet the challenges of the post-Cold War era?
What debates have arisen since 9/11 about how to balance security while preserving American ideals?
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