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US History Final Review SheetTermsAmerican NeutralityPeace time DraftAxis PowersAllied PowersIsolationistBlitzkrieglend-lease actAtomic BombCold WarCommunismContainmentMarshall PlanTruman DoctrineNuremberg War TrialsD-DayGI BillHolocaustTuskegee AirmenFood RationingWar Bonds U BoatsWar Production BoardAppeasementDictatorTotalitarianismImperialismNazismPeopleTrumanPattonEisenhowerRommelHitlerStalinMussoliniChurchillFDRKamakaziPlacesPearl HarborPacific TheaterAtlantic TheaterHiroshimaNagasakiYalta ConferenceStalingradBattle of the BulgeIwo JimaJapanese Interment Camps Short Answer QuestionsAfter WW1, many Americans and their representatives in government wanted to keep the US out of any further wars in Europe. Answer each bullet point in your one paragraph response:Why did Americans and government officials want to keep the US out of foreign wars-how did the US government accomplish this? What was their foreign policy at this time?How did US neutrality change as WW2 events unfolded?Did the US provoke Japan into bombing Pearl Harbor?Prove your answer using historically accurate facts and not just your opinions.The internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 was a highly controversial action by the US government. Answer each bullet point in your one paragraph response.Describe the attitudes of the American government towards people of Japanese descent prior to WW2.How did internment work?Did the law specifically state that people of Japanese descent would be placed into camps?What was the short and long term impact of internment on Japanese Americans?In your opinion, was the internment of Japanese Americans justified?Defend your answer using historically accurate facts and not just your opinions.TermsCold WarContainmentMarshall PlanTruman DoctrineMcCarthyismBerlin WallGI BillDomino TheorySputnikKorean WarWar Powers ActYalta ConferenceIron CurtainWarsaw PactNATOConformityHomogenousComplacencyFear MongerCommunismHUACHollywood ScandalsBlacklistBipolarizationConservatismAlienationBaby BoomTeenagerBlue CollarWhite CollarInterstate Highway ActBeatnikFeminism MystiqueNASASputnikNational Defense Education Act“Duck and Cover” GenerationNixon-Khrushchev “Kitchen DebatePeopleJoseph McCarthyPresident TrumanWinston ChurchillAlgier HissThe Rosenbergs George KennanGeneral MacArthur William LevittJack Kerouac Allen GinsbergElvisLucyJune CleaverAlfred KinseyBetty Friedan President NixonKhrushchev PlacesBerlinLevittownEast and West Germany38th ParallelShort Answer: ALL will be asked. Provide thoughtful, factual, evidence based responses.Like today, Americans purchased homes in the suburbs. Unlike today, however, this is the first time average Americans lived in suburbs and could afford homes because of new types of homes in the 1950s. How did the first “subdivision” in Levittown, New York merge conformism and consumerism?How did America’ seek to “contain” the spread of communism? In other words, what were the goals, means, and application of containment?TermsThe New FrontierThe Great SocietyPresidential televised debatesSit-in protestsCamelot YearsBay of PigsCuban Missile CrisisBlockadeBerlin WallLimited Test Ban TreatyThe Peace CorpsNASACosmonautAstronautCivil Rights ActVoting Rights ActWar on Poverty (LBJ)Economic Opportunity ActProject Head StartJob CorpsVISTAElementary and Secondary Education ActMedicareMedicaidDepartment of Housing and Urban DevelopmentHippyImmigration Act of 1965Wholesome Meat Act of 1967Mapp v. OhioEscobedo v. IllinoisMiranda v. ArizonaBrown v Board of Education of Topeka, KansasBoycottMontgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956SCLC“Little Rock Nine”SNCCFreedom RidesPentagon PapersCoup d’ etatVietcongTonkin Gulf ResolutionNapalm Agent OrangeGuerilla WarfareTet OffensiveOperation Rolling Thunder17th ParallelMy LaiLiving Room WarVietnamizationWatergateIran Hostage CrisisReaganomicsStagflationRoe v. WadeNAFTAGlobalizationConsumerismPeopleLBJLady Bird JohnsonJFKJackie KennedyRobert F KennedyWalter CronkiteMLKNixonGreen Berets/Special ForcesFidel CastroNikita KhrushchevYuri GagarinNeil ArmstrongLee Harvey OswaldBarry GoldwaterChief Justice Earl Warren Rosa ParksHo Chi MinhNgo Dinh DiemRonald ReaganPlacesCubaVietnamBirmingham, AlabamaWoolworth lunch counterIndochinaHo Chi Minh TrailKent State University ProtestShort Answers: Answers will be in 1 paragraph format. Make sure you are REFLECTIVE and SPECIFIC. How did the Vietnam War set the precedent for future American Presidents engaging in the act of war?"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam,."- President Lyndon B. Johnson?Imagine that you are an American reading these words in 1966. How might you react to this statement (belief, disbelief, support, condemnation)? Would you support American involvement in Vietnam? Might your opinions have changed by late 1968? Include facts regarding the Vietnam War in your answer.Brown v. Board of Education – What 2 arguments did the NAACP make in the Brown v. Board of Education case? How did the ruling in Brown v. Board impact the lives of southerners? What bearing did it have on the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of ................
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