Unit+Eleven+Terms+and+Questions

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 * Watch the above lecture by Stanford University professor, David Kennedy. **
 * You will be asked questions about what you learned from this lecture. If **
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 * Unit 11—Terms & Questions **
 * Chapter 25--AMSCO**
 * 1) Herbert Hoover’s Foreign Policy
 * 2) Japan in Manchuria
 * 3) Good Neighbor Policy
 * 4) Pan-American Conferences
 * 5) Recognition of Soviet Union
 * 6) Tydings-McDuffie Act
 * 7) Reciprocal Trade Agreements
 * 8) Background on Fascism in Italy
 * 9) Background on Nazi popularity in Germany
 * 10) Background that leads Japan to aggression
 * 11) Isolationism in America
 * 12) Gerald Nye/Nye Committee
 * 13) Neutrality Acts
 * 14) Spanish Civil War
 * 15) Amera First Committee
 * 16) Appeasement (include incidents)
 * 17) Invasion of Poland
 * 18) blitzkrieg
 * 19) “cash and carry”
 * 20) Selective Service Act (1940)
 * 21) Destroyers-for-bases
 * 22) Election of 1940
 * 23) “Arsenal of democracy”
 * 24) “Four Freedoms”
 * 25) Lend-Lease Act
 * 26) Atlantic Charter
 * 27) Pearl Harbor
 * 28) Wartime industrial production in U.S.
 * 29) Unions during the war
 * 30) African-Americans during WWII
 * 31) Japanese Americans during WWII
 * 32) Women during WWII
 * 33) Election of 1944
 * 34) War vs. Germany—main events
 * 35) War vs. Japan—main events
 * 36) Atomic bombs
 * 37) Wartime Conferences
 * 38) Roosevelt’s death
 * 39) Potsdam Conference
 * 40) The United Nations


 * Chapter 25: Americans and a World in Crisis, 1933-1945**


 * 1) In what ways did Hitler defy the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and commit acts of aggression between 1933 and 1939?
 * 2) Discuss the debate between the isolationists and the interventionists between 1939 and 1941 over the role the United States should play in the war in Europe.
 * 3) How did the United States respond to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany during the 1930s and World War II? Why?
 * 4) Outline the major strategy and campaigns of the United States and its allies in the European war theater between 1942 and 1945.
 * 5) Outline the major strategy and campaigns of the United States in the Asian war theater between 1942 and 1945.
 * 6) Explain the issues discussed, the controversies that arose, and the decisions made at the Tehran conference.
 * 7) Explain the issues discussed, the controversies that arose, and the decisions made at the Yalta conference.


 * Chapter 26--AMSCO**
 * 1) GI Bill
 * 2) Baby boom
 * 3) Suburban growth
 * 4) Harry Truman
 * 5) Truman’s domestic plans
 * 6) Truman and Civil Rights
 * 7) 22nd Amendment
 * 8) Taft-Hartley Act
 * 9) Election of 1948
 * 10) The Fair Deal
 * 11) Origins of the Cold War
 * 12) Structure of the UN
 * 13) Soviet “satellite states”
 * 14) German occupation zones
 * 15) Iron Curtain
 * 16) “Containment” policy/Kennan
 * 17) Truman Doctrine
 * 18) The Marshall Plan
 * 19) Berlin Airlift
 * 20) NATO
 * 21) National Security Act (1947)
 * 22) Atomic weapons
 * 23) Japan after WWII
 * 24) Philippines Independence
 * 25) China and Taiwan, Mao and Kai-Shek
 * 26) Two Chinas
 * 27) Korean War—cause
 * 28) Korean War—invasion, counterattack
 * 29) MacArthur’s recall from Korea
 * 30) Political fallout of Korean War
 * 31) Loyalty Review Board
 * 32) House Un-American Activities Committee
 * 33) “blacklisting”
 * 34) Spy case—Alger Hiss
 * 35) Spy case—Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
 * 36) Joseph McCarthy—rise and fall


 * Chapter 26: The Cold War Abroad and at Home, 1945-1952**
 * 1) Why did the U.S. economy enjoy a boom after World War II rather than slide back into depression?
 * 2) Explain why the president expounded the Truman Doctrine to Congress. What was Truman proposing? Why did Congress go along with the doctrine?
 * 3) Why did the Soviet Union impose the Berlin blockade, and how did President Truman respond to it?
 * 4) Why were the communists able to take over China in 1949? How did some Republicans explain communist success in China?
 * 5) Who supported Senator Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism, and why?
 * 6) What accounts for the victory of Eisenhower and the other Republicans in the election of 1952?


 * Chapter 27--AMSCO**
 * 1) Election of 1952
 * 2) Modern Republicanism
 * 3) Interstate Highway System
 * 4) Economy of 1950s
 * 5) Election of 1956
 * 6) Dulles and “brinksmanship”
 * 7) CIA in Iran
 * 8) Fall of Indochina
 * 9) Division of Vietnam
 * 10) Creation of Israel; Suez crisis
 * 11) OPEC
 * 12) Hungarian revolt
 * 13) Sputnik
 * 14) U-2 incident
 * 15) Communism in Cuba
 * 16) “military-industrial complex”
 * 17) Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
 * 18) Brown vs. Board of Education
 * 19) Central High School, Little Rock
 * 20) Montgomery Bus Boycott
 * 21) SCLC
 * 22) SNCC
 * 23) television’s dominance
 * 24) media—advertising, books, music
 * 25) corporate America in 1950s
 * 26) //The Organization Man// (1956)
 * 27) Women’s roles in 1950s
 * 28) social critics in the 1950s
 * 29) J.D Salinger
 * 30) Joseph Heller
 * 31) Jack Kerouac
 * 32) Allen Ginsberg
 * 33) “beatniks”


 * Chapter 27: America at Midcentury, 1952-1960**


 * 1) What brought about the downfall of Joseph McCarthy? Did his eclipse end excessive fears of communist subversion?
 * 2) Explain the roles in U.S. foreign policy of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother, CIA director Allen Dulles.
 * 3) What did President Eisenhower mean when he warned Americans to be wary of the military-industrial complex?
 * 4) Describe the economic changes that occurred in American agriculture in the 1950s. What impact did those changes have on the environment?
 * 5) Why did union membership and influence decline in the second half of the 1950s?
 * 6) Describe at least three major demographic changes that occurred in America in the 1950s. What social and political impact would these developments have on the nation?
 * 7) What were the effects on American life of Russia's launching of //Sputnik//?