US History Unit 6 and 7 Quiz

Unit 6

• Labor Activism in the post-WWI period: Causes, outcomes, gains, and losses; Strikes of 1919; The Red Scare
• Prohibition: Historical and social foundations of prohibition; Arguments for and against prohibition; Enforcement of the 18th amendment; Corruption and organized crime; Racial violence post-WWI; The Red Summer of 1919 (1921 Tulsa Race Riots, 1923 Rosewood, Florida)
• Residential Segregation: The National Urban League and the NAACP; Marcus Garvey and the UNIA; The Harlem Renaissance (W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurtson); The Russian Revolution (The Emancipation Edict of 1861; Tsars Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nicholas II)

Unit 7

• The Treaty of Versailles: The League of Nations; Consequences of World War I
• The "car revolution" and the American Economy: Effects on other industries; Impacts on daily life; Impacts on the natural landscape; Electrification of the American household; "labor saving" appliances
• The rise of advertising and the consumer-oriented economy: Clothing; Food; Installment credit; Department stores; The Great Depression (Black Tuesday; Causes of the Depression; The Depths of the Depression; Unemployment)

Unit 8

• The political consequences of the international Great Depression: Attempts to ameliorate the Depression by Hoover and FDR; Herbert Hoover (Rugged individualism; "Hoovervilles"; The Bonus Army; The legacy of Hoover as president); Franklin D. Roosevelt (State of the American economy when FDR took office; The “New Deal” Programs [The Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennessee Valley Authority, Public Works Administration, Civil Works Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Act, and Works Progress Administration]; The Social Security Act); Differences between New Deal reformers and Progressives; The Three R's (Relief, Reform, Recovery); Fireside Chats; Bank Holiday and the First 100 Days; Adolph Hitler's rise to power and the Nazi war machine

Unit 9

• Reorganization of the German Economy: Domestic policies (The Nuremberg Laws; Kristallnacht; Political opponents; Concentration Camps); Violations of the Treaty of Versailles (The Rhineland, Austria, and the Sudetenland; Anti-Comintern Pact; Rome-Berlin Axis; Benito Mussolini and Italian designs in Africa; The Non-Aggression Pact; The invasion of Poland); Blitzkrieg (April 1940 – Norway and Denmark; The resignation of Neville Chamberlain; The Nazi advance in Western Europe; The Maginot Line; Dunkirk; French Resistance; Vichy France; The Bombing of Britain ["The Blitz"]); The Nazi advance in Eastern Europe (Hitler's goals in the invasion of the Soviet Union; Hitler's strategy in Ukraine, Moscow, and Leningrad; December 6th, 1941and the German attack on Moscow; September 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Red Army); Japanese imperialism (Manchuria; Invasion of China); The Bombing of the Panay; U.S. response; Japanese expansionism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific; Pearl Harbor; Isolationism in the United States amidst the Great Depression (Student Strike for Peace; Senator Gerald Nye and Charles Lindbergh); Congressional Neutrality Acts; Why did isolationism begin to fade? FDR's support for Britain prior to America's entry into WWII ("Cash and Carry"; "Lend-Lease"); U.S. entry into WWII; Operation Overlord; "D-Day"; Allied attack on the Germans and Italians in North Africa; The Battle of the Bulge; VE Day; "Island hopping" campaign in the Pacific; The Battle of Midway; The two-pronged Allied strategy to defeat Japan; The dropping of the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; German occupation of Eastern and Western Europe (Concentration Camps; The "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" and Death Camps in Europe; Heinrich Himmler; Nazi death squads and Nazi collaborators; Populations targeted by the Nazis; Evidence of Nazi death camps; America's response to evidence of the death camps; Anti-semitism in American politics; "Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews"; War Refugee Board); The domestic impact of WWII in America; Fashion
• Women on the home front (Employment; Shifting social attitudes; "Rosie the Riveter"; Auxiliary units and uniforms); Black Americans (The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; NAACP intensifies its legal campaign against discrimination; The Tuskegee Airmen; The 92nd Infantry Division ["The Buffalo Soldiers"]; Black troops in the armed forces and segregation; The Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]); Mexican Americans (Jobs in industry; Farm workers; The "Zoot Suit Riots"; Discrimination and segregation in the American southwest); Japanese Americans (Pearl Harbor and Executive Order 9066; The "public perception" of danger and Japanese American communities);

Unit 10

• The devastation of Europe and Japan in WWII (Black markets; Migration; The "Iron Curtain"); Competing visions for postwar Europe (Consumer Capitalism and Democratic Politics; Communism and Soviet Politics; Soviet "Buffer Zone" in Eastern Europe; Soviet Annexation of Baltic States; Albania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia; Nuclear tensions; Post-war Economic Assistance [Greece and Turkey; The Marshall Plan]; Advertising and importing Consumer Capitalism); "Assembly centers"; The West Coast military zones; Public Proclamation No. 4; Internment Camps; Life inside the camps; The experience for Japanese Americans in Hawaii; The postwar experience for interned Japanese Americans

Unit 11

• Local vs. federal response (Integration after Brown v. Board; Atlanta public forums on integration – March 1960; Timeline of desegregation; The Birmingham Campaign [Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights; ACMHR; Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; SCLC]; Goals and strategies of the campaign); Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association; Nonviolent mass protest and civil disobedience; The Freedom Riders; Purpose and strategy; Attacks on the Riders; Police response; Montgomery; John F. Kennedy's response to violence; Autherine Lucy; James Meredith and Ole Miss; Governor Ross Barnett; Riots

Unit 12

• The Korean War (Cairo Declaration; Yalta Conference; Truman's gamble, Red Army in Korea; Truman's eleventh-hour proposal and the 38th parallel; U.S. military occupation of southern Korea/Occupation versus the desires of Koreans post-WWII; Soviet military occupation of northern Korea; Changes enacted; 1947 UN Resolution on Korean elections; Formation of the Republic of Korea; Syngman Rhee; Formation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; Kim Il Sung; UN Resolution on Soviet and American withdrawal); Opposition to the ROK under Syngman Rhee (U.S. military advisors in South Korea; North Korean forces launch military offensive on June 25, 1950; U.S. commits ground forces; First three months of the war and the Inchon landing; South Korean forces push north across 38th parallel; China threatens to commit troops to the war effort; Chinese and U.S. troops in North Korea; General Douglas MacArthur relieved of command; The four lessons from the Korean War for the future of the Cold War; 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala; United Fruit Company; Role and influence in Guatemala; “Banana republics”; CIA operations to undermine the democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz; Long-term consequences of the 1954 coup; Cuban Revolution; Fulgencio Batista; American influence in Cuba; Fidel Castro; Communication with Washington; Economic support from the Soviet Union);

Unit 13-16

• U.S. trade embargo
• The Bay of Pigs (Goals and significance)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (Naval blockade and the threat of global nuclear war; Outcome);
• The Vietnam War (French Indochina, Japanese invasion, Attempts to reassert colonial control, Dien Bien Phu, Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh, American financial support, 1954 Geneva Accord, North and South Vietnam [Presidency of Ngo Dinh Diem, U.S. military advisers arrive in 1955, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Domino Theory, The Viet Cong, John F. Kennedy, Foreign policy based on two premises, Eisenhower and Kenndy's perspectives on defense spending]); Kennedy's mistakes/policies (Protests against Ngo Dinh Diem government; Overthrow of Diem; Lyndon B. Johnson [Presidential campaign promises; Gulf of Tonkin incident; Gulf of Tonkin resolution; Johnson's actions after the resolution]; Five options in Vietnam and Johnson's strategy in Vietnam [Ho Chi Minh Trail; The Tet Offensive]; Richard M. Nixon [Strategy in Vietnam War; Ho Chi Minh Trail; Christmas Bombings; U.S. withdrawal]; Anti-Vietnam War protest movement; Campus protests and other protest strategies [Kent State]; 1968 Democratic National Convention; The Vietnam War in the American consciousness [Television and movies; The image of the “Vietnam vet”])
• Casualties and losses suffered in Vietnam and the overall cost
• The Space Race (Sputnik I and II; Intercontinental ballistic missiles; Initial American attempts to launch a satellite; Soviet launches manned mission; American space program [Mercury program; Gemini program; Apollo program])