What event ended U.S. neutrality? Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.” Franklin Roosevelt

Describe 2 major Pacific battles:

Describe 2 major Atlantic battles:

Describe life on the home front: (Rationing)

Detail the contributions of Women (Rosie the riveter).

Describe the contributions of African-Americans (Tuskegee Airman/migration north)

Describe the contributions of Mexican-Americans (Bracero program, Zoot Suit Riots).

What happened to Japanese-Americans (Internment, Fred Korematsu vs. U.S.)?

Describe the development and use of the Atom Bomb. How did its use effect the outcome of World War II?

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Cold War. “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.” Nikita Khruschev (1956) It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union. John F. Kennedy (1962)

Describe 3 events during the cold war (at home): (a few examples…)

Describe 3 events during the cold war (abroad) (a few examples…)

Describe John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier: Meeting Peace Corps volunteers… A political cartoon.

Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis

Describe Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Tet Offensive, Vietnamization, My Lai Massacre

What happened at Kent State University in 1971?

What was President Johnson’s Great Society?

Identify some key rulings of the Warren Court.

How did President Nixon deal with the Vietnam War?

Identify and give significance of the Pentagon Papers:

What were President Nixon’s goals in going to China?

Watergate CREEP Impeachment From the Nixon Presidency identify the following: Saturday Night Massacre

Describe Feminism, Betty Friedan, and the ERA.

Describe the following from the Reagan Presidency: Reaganomics New Right Iran-Contra Scandal SDI (Star Wars)

The Civil Rights Movement. “I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What was the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education? What previous case did the Brown ruling overturn?

Who is Rosa Parks, and why is she important to the Civil rights Movement?

Identify the following groups. What role did each Play in the Civil Rights Movement? CORE SNCC SCLC

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and why was he a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement?

Who was Malcolm X and how were his ideas different than Martin Luther King, Jr.’s?

Describe the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

What happened to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis on April 4 th, 1968? How did that event change the Civil rights Movement?