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US History Final Study Guide

The study guide provides an extensive list of important people, terms, and events to know for the US History Final. It includes over 100 important people from FDR and Hitler to Reagan and Gorbachev. Key terms cover topics from WWII like fascism and the Manhattan Project to the Cold War and containment policy. Major sections outline important WWII events from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, key moments in the Cold War and civil rights movement, and events spanning the Vietnam War and social movements of the 1960s-1980s.

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US History Final Study Guide

The study guide provides an extensive list of important people, terms, and events to know for the US History Final. It includes over 100 important people from FDR and Hitler to Reagan and Gorbachev. Key terms cover topics from WWII like fascism and the Manhattan Project to the Cold War and containment policy. Major sections outline important WWII events from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, key moments in the Cold War and civil rights movement, and events spanning the Vietnam War and social movements of the 1960s-1980s.

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US History Final Study Guide

(Recommended by teachers everywhere as the best way to ace the test)

Important People - FDR- WWII leader of US - Adolph Hitler- WWII leader of Germany - Neville Chamberlain- Prime minister of Britain who signed the Munich Agreement in 1938. - Charles de Gaulle- Lead French forces in WWII - Winston Churchill- Britains leader during WWII - George Patton- leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany, 19431945. - Dwight Eisenhower- General during WWII and president. Lead D-day invasion - Emperor Hirohito- Japans leader during WWII - Hideki Tojo- was a General in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II. - Joseph Stalin- Russian leader during WWII member of the Soviet party. - Benito Mussolini- Itanlian leader during WWII - Francisco Franc- Spanish leader - Harry Truman- President towards the end of WWII. - Robert Oppenheimer- creator of the atomic bomb - Mao Zedong- Chinese leader - Chiang Kai-Shek- lead revolution against China to form Taiwan - Douglas MacArthur- lead the US in Japan and Korean War. - Alger Hiss- spy - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg - William Levitt - Joseph McCarthy - John Foster Dulles - Nikita Krushchev - Elvis Presley - Jack Kerouac - Thurgood Marshall - Martin Luther King Jr. - Malcolm X - Rosa Parks - JFK - Fidel Castro - RFK - Lee Harvey Oswald - LBJ - William Westmoreland - Ho Chi Minh - Cesar Chavez - Betty Friedan - Phyllis Schlafly - Gloria Steinem - Hippies - Richard Nixon/his inner circle - Henry Kissinger - Woodward and Bernstein - Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan

Important Terms - Fascism - Totalitarian - Destroyers-for-bases - Lend-Lease - Cash and Carry - Appeasement - WWII: o causes o allied and axis powers o major battles o leaders o Life on the home front: programs, racial tensions o Economic impact - Kamikaze - A bomb: Why did we drop it? - Manhattan Project - Marshall Plan - Cold War: Who? Why? - Iron curtain - Marshall Plan - Truman Doctrine - Containment policy - McCarthyism - HUAC - Blacklist - CIA - NATO - Warsaw Pact - UN - H-bomb - Eisenhower Doctrine - 38th parallel - Suburbs - GI Bill - Franchise - Baby boom - Rock and roll - Sputnik - Beat movement - Warren Commission - Great Society: examples of programs: Medicare, etc.

Important Terms (cont) - Methods of African-American Civil Rights Movement - Brown V. Board of Education - SCLC - SNCC - Sit-in - Black Panthers/Black Power - Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Berlin Wall - Peace Corps - Great Society Programs: examples - Domino theory - Tonkin Gulf Resolution - Hawks vs. Doves: reasons to be on each side - ARVN - VC - Hawks vs. Doves - Napalm/Agent Orange - Pentagon Papers - UFWOC - AIM - Vietnamization - NOW - ERA - Feminism - Counterculture - OPEC - New Federalism - Dtente - WIN - stagflation - OPEC - SALT I and II - Reaganomics - Star Wars - Glasnost - Perestroika WWII Events: - Pearl Harbor - Stalingrad - Battle of the Atlantic - D-Day - Battle of the Bulge - V-E Day - Midway - Iwo Jima - Okinawa - Hiroshima

Nagasaki Japanese Internment

Cold War Events: - Berlin Airlift - Korean War - Second Red Scare - Chinese Civil War: sides - U-2 incident - Election of 1960 - Bay of Pigs Invasion - Cuban Missile Crisis - Space Race - JFK assassination African-American Civil Rights Movement: - Little Rock Crisis - Montgomery Bus Boycott - March on Washington Vietnam War: - Dien Bien Phu - Tet Offensive - Assassinations of RFK and MLK - Kent State Massacre - Democratic Convention in Chicago/Election of 1960 Social Movements - Latino Civil Rights Movement - Native American Movement - Feminist Movement - Woodstock 1970s and 1980s - Watergate - Dtente in China - Camp David Accords - Fall of Berlin Wall - End of Soviet Union

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