A.H. 2nd semester

American History: 2nd Semester Exam Review Sheet (Part II)

Late Cold War

  • Sputnik

  • Significance of Space Race in the Cold War

  • National Defense Education Act

  • Bay-of-Pigs Invasion

  • Causes of Cuban Missile Crisis

  • How Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved

  • Warren Commission Findings

  • Lee Harvey Oswald

  • Jack Ruby

  • C.I.A

  • Operation Ajax

  • Blowback

Vietnam

  • How U.S. goal in Vietnam War differed from North Vietnam’s goal

  • Ngo Dinh Diem

  • Ho Chi Minh

  • Vietcong

  • Ho Chi Minh Trail

  • Ho Chi Minh’s strategy to defeat U.S.: Elephant v. Tiger

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

  • Conscription

  • Ways people tried to avoid fighting in Vietnam

  • Criticisms of college deferments for draft

  • Values of Mainstream Culture

  • Beat Movement

  • Hippie Movement

  • Tet Offensive

  • Vietnamization

  • Kent State Protest

  • American leaders who were assassinated in 1968

  • 1968 Democratic Convention: Why conflict

  • 1968 Election: Why Nixon won

Modern America

  • Silent Spring

  • Rachel Carson

  • EPA

  • Cuyahoga River Fire

  • Cause of Watergate Scandal

  • Short and Long-term Consequences of Watergate Scandal

  • Berlin Wall

    • Who built it?

    • Why was it built?

  • SDI

  • Reagan’s impact on ending the Cold War

  • National Security Directive 75

  • Gorbachev’s impact on ending the Cold War

  • 9/11 attacks

    • Targets? 

    • How many killed?

  • Causes of 9/11

  • Response to 9/11

  • Department of Homeland Security

  • PATRIOT Act

  • Debate over passage of the PATRIOT Act

  • Operation Enduring Freedom - purpose & location

  • Taliban

  • 2003 Iraq War - purpose and location

  • Saddam Hussein

  • Debate over treatment of suspected terrorists

  • Al Qaeda