US History Semester 2
The curriculum is listed below. Please check with your ACE teacher to make sure you are approved to take this subject. Each unit has requirements that are needed to complete before you take the test. Once you complete each unit, please go to the following site for testing on each unit:
Students must complete the following to receive full credit:
Terms Do all terms with example for terms
Notes 5 sentences PER Video. Do all video notes
Questions Answer the questions completely
Test Take test*. Test can be found at: https://testmoz.com/class/16400
All test passwords are: osc
Total pages (with exam):
5-10 pages of work per credit
Unit 6: WWII
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
Yalta conference
Tuskegee Airmen
A Phillip Randolph
rationing
"Europe First" strategy
George Kennan
Red Scare
McCarthyism
Eisenhower Doctrine
limited war
Nazi ideology
Japanese Americans during WWII
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Wartime migration
Douglas MacArthur
Notes:
Important Questions:
What was the treaty that ended WWI that laid some of the unrest that would later explode into WWII?
Hitler became the essential dictator of Germany in which decade?
What war during the 1930s greatly influenced the development of military tactics that were used in WWII?
What was the last major attempt at a peaceful resolution with Germany prior to the outbreak of WWII?
This was a line of fortifications across the French border with Germany.
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?
What was the most significant early U.S. victory in the Pacific theatre?
Who was the commanding general of the German Afrika Korps nicknamed 'The Desert Fox'?
The firebombing of this German town was a major civillian tragedy during the war.
The Battle of the Bulge refers to
Did the aftermath of WWII led directly to the collapse of Imperialism and the self-determination of former colonies?
Assessment/Final Exam:
Embedded Assessment #1:
Your assignment is to write a multi-paragraph essay that defines the impact of world war two on Europe and America. Explain the cause and effect of the allies and axis and how this conflict impacted the world. This essay should use the strategies of definition and different perspectives from the unit to help you develop a thesis.
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Embedded Assessment #2:
Explain Macarthism and how it impacted American politics. Please explain how it influenced America during that time period.
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*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.
Unit 7: Postwar and the Civil Rights movement
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
Business terms:
service sector
demobilizing
multinational
Freedom Summer
Thurgood Marshall
Brown v. Board of Education
de jure segregation
Voting Rights Act of 1965
inflation
deflation
unemployment
excessive taxes
Montgomery bus boycott
Malcolm X
Black Panthers
Martin Luther King Jr.
Notes:
Important Questions:
A new invention that changed the way Americans viewed the world was the:
What invention caused many Americans to stop supporting the war in Vietnam?
Which Supreme Court Case led to the integration of public schools?
Rosa Parks helped lead the way for the:
The March on Washington is where:
The Voting Rights Act made it illegal for African Americans to
Thurgood Marshal was the
Which assassination caused the progress that the Civil Rights movement had made to decrease
Who's assassination allowed for important civil rights laws to be passed?
What was a method used by state governments to prevent African Americans from voting?
What brought major improvements to the lives of African Americans in the South?
How did Poll Taxes prevented African Americans from voting?
What did Brown v Board of Education do?
What is a boycott?How were they were used in the Civil Rights movements of the 1950s.
What was the final result of the bus boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama?
President in 1960's who pushed through the Civil Rights act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Court case that was finalized saying that the separate but equal law, did not violate the 14th amendment; this made segregation legal in the South.
Southern states and local governments passed these ___________laws in order to segregate blacks and whites in public and private facilities.
Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in as president of the United States just two hours after who was assassinated?
A plan for ending poverty and bringing success and wealth to all was referred to by President Johnson as _____.
What is a poll tax?
Which constitutional amendment outlawed poll taxes?
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*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.
Unit 8: Cold War and New Nations
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
Ho Chi Minh
domino theory
Vietcong
napalm
Tet Offensive
Great Society
deficit spending
Richard M. Nixon
flexible response
Equal Pay Act
poverty
communism
discrimination
Cuba
missile crisis
Notes:
Important Questions:
During the Cold War the United States wanted the Soviet Union to remove missiles from Cuba. What was this event known as?
Who was America competing against during the Cold War that was communist?
The United States was involved in the Korean War and the Vietnam War because...
The United States changed the way it fought wars after which war?
What was the effect of President Johnson's decisions for the US to be a part of the Vietnam War?
Which program has helped over 30 million children throughout the country by providing low-income children and their parents with health, nutrition and education services?
The Vietnam War was between
He was the first person to land on the moon.
This was the plan to train exiled Cubans to overthrow Fidel Castro
The United States and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should
U.S. fears about the spread of communism were increased when ____ became a Communist nation in 1949.
In the early 1970s, the Chinese government decided to improve relations with the U.S. because
The surprise attack launched by the NLF in January of 1968 was called
The Warsaw Pact sought to
On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro’s forces overthrew the government led by
The “détente” phase of relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ended with the Soviet invasion of
The first artificial satellite to be launched into space was called
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*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.
Unit 9: Regional Conflicts, The Developing World
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
silent majority
stagflation
affirmative action
Twenty-fifth Amendment
Gerald Ford
Watergate
executive privilege
commune
feminism
counterculture
Beatles
Chicano movement
The sexual revolution of the 1960
Iran hostage crisis
Roe v Wade
President Kennedy
woman in the labor force
baby boom generation
Korean War
Vietnam Conflict
Notes:
Important Questions:
What is the full name of the first president to resign?
Who wanted to impeach Nixon? (hint: one of the houses of Congress)
What would happen if Nixon was impeached?
In 1973, what did the prosecuter issue so that Nixon would hand over the tapes that would show he was involved in the Watergate incident?
What made Nixon think he could refuse to hand over the tapes even after the subpoena? (hint: what did he believe?)
What is the Rule of Law?
Who took Nixon's place as President?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Its Arab members placed an embargo, or ban, on oil exports to the US
A ban of sales of goods to the US
Giving more control to state and local government
Granted federal funds to local and state agencies to use
Relaxation of tensions between the US and the communist nations of China and the USSR
A sustained rise in prices, across an economy
we did not produce enough oil to cover our needs, we needed more foreign oil
A listening device used to interpret telephone information
CRP organized a group to break into Watergate to photograph campaign documents and campaign documents and install wiretaps
Nixon's first Vice President , resigned because of scandal
New VP after Agnew who became President after Nixon resigned
Landmark decision by US Supreme Court on first amendment rights, which made it possible for the NY Times and Washington post to be able to post the pentagon papers
A peace treaty signed by Egypt and Israel, Egypt became the first star country to recognize the state of Israel, Israel, in turn, promised to return Sini Peninsula
Islamic Revolution in Iran and Shah was overthrown, Carter then let Shah travel to the US. For cancer treatment, terrorist group took over the US embassy in Tehran and took 52 hostages, let them go after 444 days, the day carter left office
Elected president in 1976
35 nations signed a document that promoted greater cooperation between the nations of eastern and Western Europe
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*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.
Unit 10: The World Today
Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.
Terms to Know:
AIDS
New Right
unfunded mandates
supply-side economics
Savings and Loan Crisis
biotechnology
Patriot Act
Immigration and Control Act of 1986
Taliban
Immigration Act of 1990
ISIS
George H.W. Bush
"Star Wars" program
Reganomics
1970's liberals
Obamacare
Barrack Obama
Donald Trump
George Bush
the Contract with America
Notes:
Important Questions:
What state was Ronald Reagan born in?
What was Ronald Reagan's preferred nickname until the late 1930s?
Reagan almost won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1941 film
In 1962 the US Justice Department investigated Reagan and his involvement with which television show?
What was Reagan's FBI code name during the Red Scare of the 1950s?
George Bush attacked Reagan's economic plans by referring to them with what title?
Many of Reagan's foreign policy goals during his first term in office centered on "containing" the influence of what foreign power?
Which world leader came to power in 1985 with the intention of easing tensions caused by the Cold War?
What was the official name for Reagan's $1 trillion "Star Wars" program?
Reagan's term, "window of vulnerability," referred to what?
Reagan authorized a bombing raid on which country after discovering that it funded anti-American terrorist movements?
The Reagan administration was accused of trading arms for hostages in what scandal?
The US Army invaded which country in 1982 to fight Communist rebels?
What resolution, passed by Congress in 1981, prohibited Reagan and the US military from interfering in Nicaragua?
Where was Barack Obama born?
Obama is the _______ president of the United States.
Before becoming president, Obama was a United States senator. He was a senator from this state
This is Barack Obama's political party.
Which president preceded President Obama?
Did Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?
**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400 during class session.
*Hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front.
Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.