Final Review

US Final Review

WWII

            Nye Committee

            Isolationism v. internationalism

            Lend-lease

            Neutrality Acts (reasons for each)

            Hemispheric defense zone

            Pearl Harbor

            Island hopping

            Cost plus

            War Production Board

            Selective Service

            Propaganda (gardens, bonds, coupons)

            Internment camps

            Bracero Programs

Battles (significance)

                        Coral Sea

                        Midway

                        Stalingrad

                        Bulge

                        D-day

            Decision to drop the bomb (Arguments for and Against)

Cold War

            Long Telegram

            Containment

            Truman Doctrine

            Marshall Plan

            Berlin airlift

            Korean War (limited war)

            Red Scare (causes- Alger Hiss, Igor)

            HUAC

            McCarthyism

            Sputnik

            Duck and Cover

            Cuban Missile Crisis

            La Brigada (Bay of Pigs)

            Berlin Wall

            Space Race

            New Look (Eisenhower)

            Flexible Response

            Domino Theory

           

50s/60s Society

            GI Bill

            Taft-Hartley Act

            Federal Highway Act

            Baby Boom

            Levittown

            Jonas Salk

            Generation Gap

            Beat Movement

            New Consumerism

            Urban decline / Urban renewal

            Multinational corporation

            Medicaid / Medicare

            HUD

            New Frontier

Great Society

Head Start

Peace Corps

Court Case

                        Gideon v Wainwright

                        Brown v. Board

                        Reynolds v. Sims (shifted power to urban areas)

            Warren Commission

Civil Rights

            Plessy v. Ferguson

            Brown case

            SCLC

            Rosa Parks

            MLK Jr.

            Malcolm Little (X)

            Jim Crow

            Sit-ins (Greensboro)

            Bus Boycott (Montgomery)

            Marches (Birmingham and Selma)

            Little Rock 9

            SNCC  

            CORE

            Civil Rights Act 1964 / Voting Rights Act 1965

            Kerner Commission

            

Vietnam Protest Album

Vietnam Protest Song Album

Create an album (5 + songs) of Vietnam era protest songs.  Include the following in your final product:

1.     The Artist and year

2.     A copy of the lyrics

3.     Analysis of at least 2 paragraphs from each song. 

a.  The analysis must include a definition of relevant vocab terms / events

discussed in class / text.  How does the music help convey the artists' message. 

4.     Come up with a name for your album

5.     Group member names and period #

LBJ Sandwich

Read pages 726-727
Decide which one of Johnson's programs was the "meat" of the Great Society.
Yes, this is your opinion but you must support your decision using facts.  Support your choice through comparison to other programs in scope and cost or lasting impact.

The Warren Commission "The Real Report"

Select a group of detectives that will assist in hunting down JFK's true assassin. Your assignment is to come up with a suspect list (5-10 individuals or groups) with motive to off Kennedy. If you name someone you must provide enough evidence to establish motive and means. The group with the best (most creative and logical) conspiracy theory wins!

Check out following websites to get started:

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/4/jfk.htm

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

LBJ Biography

Read page 724 ("Johnson's Leadership Style" and "A War on Poverty") Create a list of 10 adjectives to describe Johnson. (Remember boys and girls that an adjective is a word that describes something such as...sarcastic or condescending).

Next, write a brief 1 paragraph bio, using as many of the adjectives you came up with as you can, to explain why Johnson was so concerned about poverty. (what was his upbringing and previous job?)

Story Board - Warren Court

Examine the chart on page 709. Choose one case from the Civil Rights section and on from Due Process. Research the facts of the case and create a story board (comic strip) explaining the facts, rule of law, and impact the decision has had on society.

Kennedy and the Cold War

Read pages 717 and 718 of the text. Next choose to answer two (2) of the following:

1. Write an OpEd piece for a newspaper about the Bay of Pigs invasion, but do it from the perspective a member of La Brigada.

2. Create a political cartoon on the creation of the Berlin Wall

3. Write a story (satire, children's) on the Cuban Missile Crisis from the perspective of an A-Bomb

Due Friday at the beginning of class