Final Exam Study Guide
These are the topics that will be on the final exam. The final will consist of 120 multiple choice questions plus 1 essay question.
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U.S. History - Final Exam Review Guide
Goals of the Progressive Movement
Muckrakers
What law required truthful labels?
Teddy Roosevelt and trusts
WWI and the Suffrage Movement
Imperial powers in the late 1800
Open Door Policy
Growth of American Imperialism
Speak softly and carry a big stick
Panama Canal
Selective Service Act
Mechanized Warfare in WWI
Casualties in WWI (by nation)
America’s policy at the start of WWI
Alliances
The Western Front
Urban Sprawl in the 1920
Sacco & Vanzetti
Harlem Renaissance
Prohibition (Groups For/Against)
Prohibition
Scopes Trial
Double Standard
Great Migration
Causes of the Great Depression
Causes of the Dust Bowl
Bonus Army
Buying on Margin
Effects of the Dust Bowl
Effects of the Great Depression
FDR’s 100 days actions
FDR’s Actions as President
Court Packing
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Holocaust
Appeasement Policy
German – Soviet non-aggression pact
WWII – US Entry
Lend-Lease Act
Nazi Genocide
Battle of the Bulge
D-Day
Truman and Atomic Bomb
Japanese American Internment
V-E Day
V-J Day
Allied Advances in Europe & North Africa
Truman Doctrine
What did the Soviet Union do in response to Western efforts to reunify Germany?
Berlin Blockade
Who infamously accused the U.S. government and military of harboring communists?
McCarthyism
Korean War
New Home Construction in the 1950s
Post-WWII Economy
Media in the 1960s
Beat Movement
Rock ‘n’ Roll
Disadvantages of American business standardization
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
Peace Corps
Lyndon B. Johnson
Medicare
Election of 1960
JFK advantages / disadvantages in 1960 election
How did America react to news that the Soviet Union was the first to put a man in space?
LBJ’s Great Society
Great Society and Effect on Subgroups (who benefited most/least?)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Brown v. Board of Education
Black Panthers
Freedom (Riders) Summer of 1964
Who preached a militant approach to civil rights?
Civil disorders 1967
U.S. Goals in Vietnam
Vietnamization
Vietnam War (who did U.S. fight with/against?)
What convinced the American public that the Vietnam War was not winnable?
Domino Theory
Plus SAT/ACT style reading passages on the following topics;
Federal Writer’s Project
President Roosevelt’s radio address to the American people following the attack on Pearl Harbor
The First and Second New Deals
Communists and Public Opinion
Progressive movement
Hawaii: Islands under the Influence
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Great Society
The Legacy of Vietnam