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