APUSH 38 to 41 Chapter 38: The Eisenhower Era 1. Why were prospects for a democratic victory in 1952 poor? 2. Why was Richard Nixon selected as Eisenhower's running mate? 3. What did Eisenhower state he would do to end the war in Korea? 4. How did television impact electoral politics? 5. What was Eisenhower's greatest asset as president? 6. Who was Joseph McCarthy? How did Eisenhower react to him? 7. What was the impact of McCarthy's anti-communism crusade? When did it end? 8. What led to new militancy and restlessness among African-Americans? 9. What methods did African-Americans use to fight Jim Crow laws? 10. Why did the Supreme Court get involved in the civil rights movement in the 1950s? 11. What was the verdict in the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision in 1954? What decision did it overturn? 12. How would Eisenhower's attitude towards racial justice be characterized? Examples? 13. What was the SNCC? 14. What was an economic problem of the 1950s? 15. What were Eisenhower's policies towards Native Americans? 16. What was the largest public works project under Eisenhower? 17. How did Ike react to the Hungarian revolution of 1956? 18. Who was the leader of the nationalist movement in Vietnam? 19. What was the 1955 Geneva Conference? 20. How did the US react to the 1956 Suez Canal crisis? 21. Where did the US engineer pro-american coups in the 1950s? 22. What was the "Eisenhower Doctrine?" 23. What was the US response to Sputnik in 1957? 24. What caused the 1960 Paris summit to be cancelled?
25. What may have tipped the scales for Kennedy in the election of 1960? 26. What were some of the new cultural characteristics of America in the fifties? 27. How would the literary movement of the 1950s be characterized? 28. How did the work force change in the 1950s? 29. What was the criticism of the consumerism of the 1950s? 30. How did sports reflect society in the 1950s? 31. Who wrote The Feminine Mystique? What was its impact? 32. What led to the rapid upsurge of employment by women following WWII? Chapter 39: The Stormy Sixties 1. What became one of Bobby Kennedy's focuses as he became attorney general? 2. How did JFK choose to attack a sagging economy? 3. What was Charles DeGaulle's opinion of America? 4. What was the 1962 Trade Expansion Act? 5. What was JFK's "flexible response?" How was it received? 6. Why did America get involved in Vietnam? 7. What was the Alliance for Progress? 8. How did JFK react to the Soviet installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba? 9. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? Results? 10. What was important about JFK's 1963 American University speech? 11. Why did JFK move slowly in the area of racial justice entering office? 12. When did JFK join with the civil rights movement? 13. How did JFK react to the Little Rock crisis? 14. Who led the government investigation into the Kennedy assassination? 15. Where did LBJ prove to be more successful then JFK? 16. What was the name of LBJ's domestic reform program? 17. What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
18. Why did voters favor LBJ in 1964? 19. What were some of the programs started by LBJ's Great Society? Evaluation of their successes/failures? 20. What was the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964? 21. What was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965? 22. What amendment was passed to help blacks vote in the South? 23. What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965? 24. What was the significance of the Watts Riots? 25. Who were some of the influential black leaders of the sixties and how did their policies differ? 26. What was the most serious blow to LBJ's Vietnam policy? 27. What happened at the 1968 Democratic convention? 28. Who was the third party candidate in 1968? Impact? 29. What did the major party candidates agree on regarding Vietnam? 30. What were some factors resulting in the upheavals of the sixties? Chapter 40: The Stalemated Seventies 1. What caused the economy to stagnate in the 1970 s? 2. What is détente? 3. What caused the Sino-Soviet split in the 1970 s How did the US use this to their advantage? 4. What communist countries did Nixon visit in 1972? 5. What did the ABM treaty and SALT do to aid in our relationship with the communist world? 6. Identify the importance of the following cases in the Warren court- Griswold v. Connecticut, Gideon v. Wainright, Escobedo v. Illinois, and Engel v. Vitale. 7. How did the Supreme Court change in 1969? 8. How did Nixon expand Great Society programs? 9. What did Nixon do to aid the environment? 10. What impact did Rachel Carson s book The Silent Spring have?
11. Who won the election of 1972? 12. What is the Watergate scandal? What is CREEP? How was Nixon involved? 13. Did the Constitution work in the Watergate scandal? What happened to Nixon? 14. What is the War Powers Act of 1973? 15. What happened as a result of the Arab oil embargo? 16. What is OPEC? 17. Who was the only unelected President? 18. Who won the election of 1976? 19. What was the main goal of Carter s presidency? 20. What happened in Iran to humiliate the US? Chapter 41: The Resurgence of Conservatism 1. What events or issues in the 1980 s signaled a triumph of conservatism? 2. What type of background helped Reagan get elected in 1980? 3. What is meant by supply-side economics? 4. What role did boll weevils (Southern Democrats) play in Reagan s economic policies? 5. Did supply-side economics cure the economic ills of the US? 6. Explain how each of the following issues helped to renew the cold war-sdi (Star Wars) and problems in Poland. 7. What is meant by the Teflon president? 8. Who are the Sandinistas? 9. Who ran against Reagan in 1984? 11. Who was Geraldine Ferraro? 12. What is meant by glasnost and perestroika when dealing with the Soviet Union? 13. What is the Iran-Contra scandal? 14. What is the legacy of Reaganomics on the US? 15. Who was elected in 1988?
16. How did the cold war end in Europe? 17. What impact did these events have on China? 18. What caused the Persian Gulf crisis? 19. Why is the Americans with Disabilities Act important?