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 * 2nd Semester Final – Race and Social Justice in U.S. History:** **Review Sheet**

**Progressivism**
 * 1) Purpose of the NAACP
 * 2) Muckrakers – who were they, what did they do?
 * 3) Eugenics movement and laws passed to support eugenics
 * 4) Jack Johnson and the Mann Act
 * 5) Coal Strike of 1902 – significance
 * 6) Bath Riots in El Paso
 * 7) Initiative
 * World War One and the 1920s (new questions…this was an essay only test) **
 * 1) Initial US policy to the outbreak of WWI - neutrality
 * 2) Selective Service Act
 * 3) Committee on Public Information
 * 4) Food Administration
 * 5) Great Migration
 * 6) Discrimination faced during WWI by ethnicities and minorities.
 * 7) Goals of Woodrow Wilson for postwar world (14 Points), and specifically the League of Nations
 * 8) Why the Treaty of Versailles FAILED to pass in the United States
 * 9) Causes of the Red Scare after WWI
 * 10) The New Negro and Langston Hughes
 * 11) Harlem Renaissance
 * 12) Scopes Monkey Trial
 * 13) KKK in the 1920s
 * 14) Babe Ruth
 * 15) Herbert Hoover and how he relates to the Great Depression


 * Great Depression and the New Deal and the Prelude to Global War **
 * 1) Dorothea Lange
 * 2) Mexican Repatriation
 * 3) Indian Reorganization Act
 * 4) Rise of the CIO (union)
 * 5) Fascism
 * 6) Four Freedoms Speech
 * WWII and the Cold War **
 * 1) Negative events to minorities during WWII – Japanese Internment, Zoot Suit Riots, Port Chicago Mutiny
 * 2) Double V Campaign – A.Philip Randolph and Executive Order 8802
 * 3) Navajo Code Talkers, Tuskegee Airmen, 442nd Regiment
 * 4) Examples of the fear of the spread of communism in Post WWII America – Loyalty Oath, HUAC and McCarthyism
 * 5) Attempts to inform Americans of nuclear weapons – Duck and Cover, If The Bomb Falls, Emergency Broadcast System, Bomb shelters
 * 6) Film clips and what they showed: //White Light, Black Rain, Guilty By Suspicion//
 * 7) Containment – what it was and where it was practiced, and how the Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan are examples.
 * 8) Mutual Assured Destruction
 * Civil Rights and American Society **
 * 1) Tactics of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the SCLC
 * 2) UFW – goals and tactics (there are three different questions on this topic)
 * 3) Effects of Woodstock, Manson murders, Altamont Music Festival on counterculture movment
 * 4) SDS (Students for A Democratic Society) and its splinter groups (Yippies, Weathermen, Merry Pranksters)
 * 5) Ella Baker
 * 6) Betty Friedan and //The Feminine Mystique//
 * 7) AIM - takeover of Alcatraz and DQ University
 * 8) Significance of Disco in the Civil Rights era
 * Vietnam War **
 * 1) Geneva Accords
 * 2) Ho Chi Minh
 * 3) Domino Theory
 * 4) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
 * 5) Operation Rolling Thunder
 * 6) Ngo Dinh Diem and what he did to lose the faith of the South Vietnamese (strategic hamlet, Buddhist persecution, etc.)
 * 7) Thich Quang Duc and his self-burning
 * 8) Tactics that made North Vietnam a formidable opponent
 * 9) Tet Offensive
 * 10) Napalm
 * 11) How the Vietnam War affected the Democratic Party in the election of 1968
 * 12) Kent State - what happened there and why it was significant
 * 13) The draft and who questioned its fairness
 * 14) How the U.S. got North Vietnam to come to the negotiating table (Ping Pong Diplomacy, Panda Diplomacy, Triangulation, Operation Linebacker)
 * 15) Paris Peace Accords (Vietnam)
 * 16) Anti War Movement among former soldiers - why they didn't support the war
 * 17) //Platoon// - what it showed and why it was important
 * 18) Watergate (what it was)
 * 19) Aftereffects of the Vietnam War