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1 CP History Final Exam Study Guide Final Exam Times: Block 4 BLUE Tuesday, June 19 th, 10:00 11:30 Block 1 WHITE Wednesday, June 20 th, 7:45 9:15 Block 3 WHITE Thursday, June 21 st, 7:45 9:15 Please remember to bring your Modern World History textbook in before the final exam or the day of the final exam. If a student does not bring their textbook in before the final exam, a grade of 0 will be entered for the final exam. The grade will change once the textbook is brought to lovely Room D105. Format of exam: 130 (or so) multiple choice questions Units of Study All of these can be found in your 3-ring binder or in nixonland. Unit 5: The Cold War, Part I: (Research project) Unit 6: The U.S. in the Early Cold War Years: The Second Red Scare and Life in the 1950s Unit 7: The Black Civil Rights Movement, 1950s and 1960s and The Black Civil Rights Movement Continues Unit 8: U.S. Involvement in Southeast Asia: The Vietnam War, Unit 9: Shifting Sands: Balancing U.S. Interests in the Middle East Unit 10: From the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation Unit 11: U.S. Immigration Policy Units of Study Terms Unit 5: The Cold War, Part I: Cold War Research Project You will be asked 1 or 2 questions about your research project; be prepared to answer with specific historical evidence. Containment: Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan Korean War, The Space Race U-2 Incident, Bay of Pigs Invasion Fidel Castro Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Berlin Wall, 1961 Able Archer,

2 Unit 6: The U.S. in the Early Cold War Years: The Second Red Scare and Life in the 1950s Containment Truman Doctrine, 1947 Marshall Plan, 1947 Korean War, Nuclear Arms Race and Mutually Assured Destruction (MADD) CIA covert operations during the Cold War Eastern European nations under Soviet control after WWII Why was Soviet action seen as expansionist by the U.S.? Factors that contributed to the creation of an atmosphere of growing alarm over a Communist threat at home George Kennan s 1947 report on Soviet expansionism recommendations for U.S. government Four fundamental premises of U.S. foreign policy developed and used until 1991 and beyond Cold War NSC-68 Senator Joseph McCarthy HUAC House of Un-American Activities Committee investigations Second Red Scare Reasons for new fear of communism Soviet Union s control over Eastern Bloc nations Anti-Communist government propaganda Fear of subversive internal threat G.I. Bill Suburbia and suburbanization Life in suburbia in the 1950s Reasons why there was an increase in ownership of automobiles Reasons for and impact of the baby boom Impact of 13 million teenagers in late 1950s Major effects of television in the 1950s: Unit 7: The Black Civil Rights Movement, 1950s and 1960s and The Black Civil Rights Movement Continues Civil liberties are restrictions on government actions and found in the Bill of Rights Civil rights are actions taken by government in response to discrimination, legal or moral claims by citizens CIVIL LIBERTIES A. Negative Freedoms : What government cannot do 1. Four substantive freedoms a. Religion i.) Establishment clause: Congress cannot establish a religion ii.) Free exercise clause: People can practice whatever religion they choose b. Freedom of political speech c. Freedom of press a free press needed to inform citizens about what people in government are doing. d. Freedom of assembly to protest government action 2. Procedural Freedoms. a. No unreasonable search and seizure must show probable cause b. No seizure of property without due process of law c. Rights of the accused i. A speedy and public trial ii. Impartial jury fair trial iii. Confront the accusers iv. Right to counsel v. Citizens cannot be forced to testify against themselves 2

3 De jure segregation De facto segregation Thurgood Marshall National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP) Racial segregation Racial discrimination separate but equal Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954) Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycotts, 1955 Non-violent resistance Civil Disobedience Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Stokely Carmichael jail no-bail Lunch counters student sit-ins Raise white awareness Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Freedom Summer of 1964 Freedom Riders President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy President Lyndon B. Johnson, Civil Rights Act of 1964 Birmingham Campaign, 1963 Birmingham Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor Voter registration campaign March to Selma, 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Twenty-fourth Amendment March on Washington D.C. for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963 Malcolm X Nation of Islam Black Power Movement Black Panther Party Bobby Seale Huey P. Newton COINTELPRO Urban race riots: Watts, Detroit, and Newark, 1965 African Americans who promoted Black civil rights in sports; Jackie Robinson and breaking the color barrier in professional baseball Muhammad Ali and civil rights activism John Carlos and 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics Unit 8: U.S. Involvement in Southeast Asia: The Vietnam War, Explain why the legacy of the Vietnam War is so different than other wars the U.S. has fought. What did the U.S. lose in Vietnam? Origins of the Vietnam War under presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964 War of Attrition Rolling Thunder Bombing campaign 3

4 Guerrilla forces 1968 Tet Offensive Agent Orange Ho Chi Minh North Vietnam South Vietnam President Nixon s Vietnamization policy Silent majority My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968 The draft Anti-war demonstrations and anti-war movement End of war Counter-culture movement 1960s Environment Movement Unit 9: Shifting Sands: Balancing U.S. Interests in the Middle East Israel Syria Jordan Iran Iraq Saudi Arabia Egypt Palestinians Hezbollah Hamas Balfour Declaration, establishment of the State of Israel Zionist movement Partition of Palestine West Bank Gaza Strip Gollan Heights Self-determination for Palestinians Superpower Diplomatic solutions for Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts Cold War politics in the Middle East Oil embargo and U.S. foreign policy in Middle East Political Islamic extremists Free-market economic principles Secular government Weapons of mass destruction Unit 10: Russia s Transformation Superpowers arsenals Foreign policy Authoritarian and authoritarianism in Russia Socialism Communism Capitalism International system 4

5 Diplomatic relations between U.S. and Russia Cold War Iron Curtain blockade Détente Perestroika Glasnost Oligarchs Privatization Import Export Russian President Boris Yeltsin s shock therapy Duma Economic inequalities Nuclear weapons Stockpiles Black market Cooperative Threat Reduction Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) NATO U.S. missile defense Human rights World Trade Organization Unit 11: U.S. Immigration Industrial Revolution Deportations Ethnic and religious discrimination Emigrate Nationalistic and nationalism National Origins Act of 1924 Amnesty Refugees Asylum seekers Illegal immigrants Visa Economic security Low-wage labor Labor union Public assistance budget Border control Persecution 5

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