Unit 6: Post World War II & Civil Rights Study Guide

Test Layout: 20 matching (vocabulary), 30 multiple choice questions, 20 map questions, 4 spiral/review questions

Why was the attack on Pearl Harbor important?

During World War II, the United States government placed what group of people in internment camps in the southwest?

What role did some Navajo play in World War II?

Who is the most famous “Code Talker” who helped raise the flag over Iwo Jima?

What battle was the turning point in the Pacific theater between the United States and Japan?

What was the Allied strategy against the Japanese in the Pacific theater?

What beach landing in France allowed the Allied troops to drive Germany out of France?

What were the results of the Yalta Conference?

Explain the movements that took place in America on the Home Front.

Which country ran the Manhattan Project, led Operation Overlord in France, and used Island Hopping to defeat the Japanese?

Iron Curtain

Partition of Germany

13. Cold War

Marshall Plan

NATO

Korean War

Truman Doctrine

General MacArthur controversy

Arms Race

Berlin Blockade

McCarthyism

1950s view of women

Little Rock incident

Space Race

Rock-n-Roll

T.V. shows from the 1950’s

Fidel Castro

Cuban Embargo

REVIEW: Rugged Individualism

REVIEW: Teapot Dome Scandal

REVIEW: New Deal

REVIEW: Governmental role in society during the New Deal

MAP #2: Europe in 1942

MAP #3: WWII in the Pacific

https://covenanthistory.weebly.com/uploads/6/1/3/5/61350135/pacific_area_map.pdf