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= __**Exam Review for US History**__ =

What are the characteristics of Fascism? What countries were Fascist?

What country attacked us which started WWII? Where did the attack happen? Why?

How were women affected by WWII? How were African Americans affected?

How were Japanese Americans affected by WWII? What was the purpose of Japanese internment?

What is the significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

What is meant by the term "cold war"? What two countries were primarily involved?

What is a satellite nation? What is meant by the term "iron curtain"?

What was the Marshall Plan? What was it's purpose?

What is containment? What was the Truman Doctrine? What did the House Un-American Activities do?

Why was the Berlin Airlift necessary? What was the purpose of NATO?

What is collective security? What was the Warsaw Pact? What was Sputnik?

What are the characteristics of capitalism? communism? Why do believers of those systems not like each other?

What was McCarthyism? What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis? Who were the leaders at that time? How was it resolved?

What were the results of the Korean War? Was it an example of containment? What was the Bay of Pigs?

What was the domino theory? Was Vietnam an example of successful containment? What is a blockade?

What made Vietnam difficult militarily? Who were the Viet Cong?

What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

What is the purpose of the United Nations?

What were the goals of the Civil Rights movement? What is non-violent civil disobedience? List examples.

Why was Rosa Parks important? Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

What happened at Little Rock, AR? What is segregation? integration? desegregation? What was Jim Crow?

What is discrimination? prejudice? racism? Who was Malcolm X? Black Panthers? Militant?

What happened and what was Watergate? What happened to Nixon because of it?

What did Nixon accomplish in foreign affairs? What was his southern strategy? What is stagnation?

What is inflation? What are different terms that mean inflation?

What is free trade? What are tariffs? What are the results, both positive and negative, of free trade?

For what reason did we enter war in Iraq during the Persian Gulf War?

For what reason did we enter the current war in Iraq? What countries opposed us?

How did September 11 change Amereica?

What is Guantanamo Bay and why is it controversial? What does the Patriot Act do and why is it controversial?

For what things is the Dept. of Homeland Security responsible?

What was Hillary Clinton's primary legislative goal as First Lady and as a presidential candidate?

Who is Saddam Hussein? What is a pre-emptive war and why is it controversial?