U.S. History Semester 2 Final Exam Study Guide
Final Exam Specifics
- Part: Essay/Authentic Assessment
- Date: May 19-21 (determined by teacher)
- Points: 30
- Part: Objective Assessment
- Dates: May 22 (Per 7), May 23 (Per 1/2), May 27 (Per 3/4), May 28 (Per 5/6)
- Points: 120
- Total Points: 150
World War II
- Battles, Events, Terms, and Content:
- Operation Torch
- Operation Overlord
- Battle of Britain
- Battle of the Bulge
- Pearl Harbor
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- Women in the military (Rosie the Riveter)
- Allied invasion of Germany
- Tuskegee Airmen
- Manhattan Project
- Navajo Code-talkers
- Truman's decision to drop the bomb
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Executive Order 9066
- Island Hopping
Cold War
- Conflicts: U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.
- Red Scare
- House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
- Berlin Airlift
- Korean War combatants
- Joseph McCarthy / McCarthyism
- Containment
- Arms Race
- 38th parallel
- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
- Marshall Plan
- Mutually Assured Destruction
- Bay of Pigs
- Fallout Shelters
- Domino Theory
- Space Race
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Truman Doctrine
- Sputnik
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- Berlin Wall
- National Highway Act
Civil Rights Movement
- Civil Rights Leaders:
- Thurgood Marshall
- Jackie Robinson
- Rosa Parks
- Emmett Till
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- James Meredith
- Medger Evers
- Stokely Carmichael
- Malcolm X
- Protests:
- Little Rock Nine
- Greensboro Sit-ins
- Boycotts
- Freedom Rides
- March on Washington
- Freedom Summer
- Legislation:
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- 24th Amendment
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Voting Rights Act 1965
- Affirmative Action programs
- Fuel of Civil Rights:
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Black Power
1950s & 1960s
1950s
- Suburbanization
- Beatniks / Beat Generation
- Rock N Roll
1960s
- The Great Society
- Counterculture
- Woodstock
Vietnam War Era
People
- Ho Chi Minh
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Robert McNamara
- William Westmoreland
- Henry Kissinger
Policies
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- War Powers Act (1973)
War
- Main goal in Vietnam
- Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- Pentagon Papers
- Napalm
- Tet offensive
- My Lai Massacre
Domestic
- Burning draft cards
- Johnson’s withdrawal from 1968 election
- 1968 Democratic National Convention
- 26th amendment
Watergate and the 1970s
People
- Richard Nixon
- Woodward & Bernstein
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
Events
- Watergate scandal
- Three Mile Island
- Camp David Accords (1978)
- Iran Hostage Crisis
Terms and Content
- SALT I and SALT II
- National Organization for Women (NOW)
- Roe v. Wade (1973)
- Conservative Resurgence
The 21st Century
People
- George W. Bush
- Osama Bin Laden
- Barack Obama
- Donald Trump
- Joseph Biden
Terms and Content
- Taliban
- Al Qaeda
- Dept. of Homeland Security
Events
- September 11, 2001 (9/11)
- War in Afghanistan
- Financial Crisis of 2008/2009
- Election of Obama
- Death of Bin Laden
- Dobbs v Jackson’s Women’s Health Org. (2022)
- COVID-19 Pandemic
- Assault on Capitol (Jan. 6, 2021)
- Social media
- USA PATRIOT Act
- Affordable Care Act
People - Events - Terms and Content
People
- Ronald Reagan
- Sandra Day O’Conner
- George H. W. Bush
- Clarence Thomas
- Bill Clinton
Events
- Iran-Contra Scandal
- End of Cold War
- Persian Gulf War
- Clinton impeachment/scandal
- 2000 Election / Bush v Gore (2000)
Terms and Content
- Federal spending priorities
- “Evil Empire” speech
- Liberal v Conservative viewpoints
- Brady Bill
- Operation Desert Storm
- Family Medical Leave Act
- “Tear Down This Wall” Speech
Essay / Authentic Assessment
- Write about three different events from three different decades.
- Canvas will provide 4 decades at random; you will need to write about one event from three different decades.