US History 2-S Final Exam Review Sheet

1. Dictators of Europe
2. Joseph Stalin
3. Benito Mussolini
4. Hitler’s promise to the German people
5. Hitler blames the Jews
6. Hitler demands the Rhineland from France
7. Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
8. Hitler makes a promise at the Munich conference
9. Hitler invades Poland
10. Britain stands in the way of German conquest in Europe
11. German air force ( Luftwaffe) bombs England day and night
12. Winston Churchill
13. Japan invades Manchuria
14. Axis Powers
15. US passes Neutrality Laws 1935-1937
16. Russian tactics vs. the German Blitzkrieg
17. Japan attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
18. The Allies
19. The “Big Three”
20. The big Three decide to defeat Hitler first
21. Macarthur’s Island hopping Strategy in the Pacific
22. Navajo code Talkers
23. Battle of Midway
24. role played by women
25. Tuskegee Airmen
26. Latinos in world War Two
27. D-Day invasion ( France)
28. Allies and Russians force Germans to retreat
29. Holocaust
30. Hitler’s Final Solution to the Jewish problem
31. Truman uses the A-Bomb
32. The United Nations
33. Satellite nations
34. Churchill uses the term “iron curtain”
35. the Cold War
36. The Truman Doctrine
37. The Marshall Plan
38. Germany after world War Two
39. The Berlin Airlift
40. NATO
41. Japan after World War Two
42. Chinese Civil War
43. North Korea invades South Korea
44. Truman sends US forces to South Korea
45. Korea after the war
46. Death sentence of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
47. Senator McCarthy creates fear
48. Soviets launch Sputnik 1957
49. Consumerism in the 1950’s
50. white collar and blue collar workers
51. Baby boomers
52. penicillin or antibiotics
53. Rhythm and Blues
54. Rock n Roll artists
55. Cuba in 1959
56. Plessey Vs Ferguson
57. Jackie Robinson
58. NAACP
59. Brown Vs. the Board of Education
60. Eisenhower sends troops to little Rock Arkansas
61. Rosa Parks arrest, Montgomery, Alabama
62. Martin L. King and the Montgomery Bus company
63. nonviolent protest
64. Freedom Riders and Sit-Ins
65. KKK
66. Kennedy and the Peace Corps
67. Kennedy’s promises
68. Fidel Castro and the Soviet Union
69. Eisenhower trains Cuban exiles in Guatemala
70. Kennedy invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
71. East Germany builds the Berlin Wall
72. The Cuban Missile Crisis
73. Jack Ruby’s arrest
74. Johnsons’ Great society Program
75. Medicaid Program
76. Malcolm X’s pilgrimage to Mecca
77. Black Power Movement
78. Feminist movement
79. Other minorities follow the same example as African Americans
80. The Domino Theory
81. The NVA and Vietcong, or VC
82. Ho Chi Minh
83. Vietcong tactics
84. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
85. Americans protest Vietnam War
86. Napalm and Agent Orange
87. Americans burn draft cards
88. Assassinations in the 1960’s
89. Nixon bombs the Ho Chi Minh Trail
90. The US removes its troops and the Fall of Saigon
Essay topics

Lend Lease Plan

The A-Bomb
Germany and Korea after World War Two
Economic and social changes of the 1950’s
African American struggle for civil rights
Kennedy and Johnson’s New Frontier and Great Society Programs
Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans follow the same example as African
Americans
The VC and NVA prove to be a difficult enemy