FINALS- SPRING, 2018

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE

5/18: 1st, 2nd, 7th

5/21: 5th, 6th  (early release)

5/22: 3rd, 4th (early release)

US HISTORY STUDY GUIDE for FINAL TEST

SSUSH20 Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.

a.       Analyze the international policies and actions developed as a response to the Cold War

·   Containment

·   Marshall Plan

·   Truman Doctrine

·   Korean War

b.   Connect major domestic issues to their social effects

·   G.I. Bill

·   Truman’s integration policies

·   McCarthyism

·   National Interstate and Defense Highways Act

·   Brown v. Board of Education

·   U.S. technological innovations and education (Sputnik I)

SSUSH21 Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

a.       Analyze the international policies and actions taken as a response to the Cold War

·   U.S. involvement in Cuba

·   Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

·   escalation of the war in Vietnam

b.      Connect major domestic issues to their social effects

·   Civil Rights legislation

·   Johnson’s Great Society

       c.       Describe the impact of television on American culture

·   presidential debates (Kennedy/Nixon, 1960)

·   news coverage of the Civil Rights Movement

·   moon landing

·   war in Vietnam

       d.      Investigate civil rights groups

·   Martin Luther King, Jr.

·   Letter from Birmingham Jail

·   I Have a Dream Speech

·   Cesar Chavez

  

        e.       Describe the turmoil of 1968

·   assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr

·   assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

·   Tet Offensive

·   Presidential Election

SSUSH22 Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations.

a.       Analyze the international policies and actions taken as a response to the Cold War

·   opening of and establishment of diplomatic relations with China

·   end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam

·   War Powers Act

·   Camp David Accords

·   Carter’s response to the 1979 Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis

b.      Connect major domestic issues to their social effects

·   creation of the Environmental Protection Agency

·   emergence of the National Organization for Women

·   Nixon’s resignation due to the Watergate scandal

·   pardon by Ford

SSUSH23 Assess the political, economic, and technological changes during the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations.

a.       Analyze challenges faced by recent presidents

·   collapse of the Soviet Union

·   Clinton’s impeachment

·   attacks of September 11, 2001

·   war against terrorism

b.      Examine economic policies of recent presidents

·   Reaganomics

c.       Examine the influence of technological changes on society

·   personal computer

·   Internet

·   social media

d.   Examine the historic nature of the presidential election of 2008