Mt. Carmel High School

 

US History Semester 2 Final Review

Between the Wars

British and French policy towards Hitler Germany 

US Foreign Policy between the world wars

The Non-aggression Pact

Purpose of the Neutrality Acts

WWII

Official start of WWII

Official start of WWII for the United States

Roles and symbol of women during WWII

Japanese Internment

Reasons for African-American Northern Migration

The Atlantic Charter

Navajo Code Talkers

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

Cash and Carry

Lend-Lease Act

National Leaders

Operation Overlord

The Manhattan Project

Island Hopping

Arguments for using the atomic bomb

The Cold War

Principles of the United Nations

The Truman Doctrine

The Marshall Plan

NATO

The Warsaw Pact

Kennan's Containment policy

Cause and Outcome of the Korean War

Truman vs. MacArthur

McCarthyism

HUAC

Eisenhower Doctrine

The Space Race

US Reaction to Sputnik

The U-2 Incident

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

The Berlin Wall

The Cuban Missile Crisis/Brinkmanship

Massive Retaliation

Flexible Response

Geneva Accords

Main goal of Ho Chi Minh

Importance of the Tonkin Gulf incident

Ho Chi Minh Trail

The Tet Offensive

The Credibility Gap

"I shall not be the 1st US President to lose a war"

Assassination of Robert Kennedy

The election of Richard Nixon

Detente

S.A.L.T. I

Hawks and Doves

Invasion of Cambodia

The War Powers Act

Civil Rights

The 14th Amendment

Literacy Tests

Poll Taxes

Grandfather Clause

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Separate but Equal

Brown v. The Board of Education

Rosa Parks

Dr. Martin Luther King

Mississippi Voter Registration

Little Rock Arkansas

The March on Washington

The Greensboro Sit-ins

Post Mecca Malcolm X

The SCLC

The NAACP

CORE

The Black Panthers

De Facto Segregation

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Betty Friedan

Cesar Chavez

United Farm Workers

The 1950's-1960's

Beat Movement

Rock and Roll

Rise of Suburbia

Kennedy-Nixon debates

The Great Society

Success and Failures of the Great Society

"Tune in, Turn on, Drop out"

The 1970's and Beyond

CREEP and the Plumbers

Nixon's resignation

Nixon and China

Three Mile Island

Chernobyl

OPEC

Roe v. Wade

Gerald Ford becomes President

Jimmy Carter and Iran

The Challenger Explosion