U.S. History Final Exam Review Game 2 nd Semester Chapters 10-20

RULES: Students will be put into groups of no more than 5 Each group will create a team name Each group will be given a white board with a dry erase marker Each group will be able to use their exam review the first two days Each group will be given one minute per question to come up with an answer and write it on the white board Groups who answer the question correctly will get a point The winning group will get to exempt themselves from an assignment of their choosing. The assignment cannot be a test.

1. 1. What was the purpose of the Nuremburg Laws?

2. 2. Which act made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war?

3. 3. Britain and France gave into Hitler’s demands for the Sudetenland at which conference?

4. 4. During WWII, women were recruited into the military. Why?

5. 5. Why was Iwo Jima an important objective for the American military?

6. 6. Name three ways that the US government mobilized for the WWII war effort.

7. 7. Why was Island Hopping important?

8. 8. What was rationing?

9. 9. During WWII, the automobile factories started making items for the war effort. What were they?

Victory over Hitler’s racism abroad and victory over racism at home was called what?

What was the goal of Korematsu v. the United States?

What was the importance of the Potsdam Conference?

The United Nations “fought” against which side of the Korean War?

Who created a media frenzy when he said that he had a list of Communists employed by the US State Department?

Which country was divided into four parts at the Yalta Conference?

What was the goal of the Truman Doctrine?

What was the goal of the Marshall Plan?

What was the result of the Korean War?

Federal employees in the United States were faced with strict screening and termination of their job if they were suspected of being disloyal. What period of American History does this describe?

How did the GI Bill help soldiers returning home from war?

Kennedy’s idea to buildup of conventional weapons was called…

The Office of Economic Opportunity was a major part of which of Johnson’s goals?

This organization was founded by students during the civil rights movement.

Nonviolent passive resistance was the belief held by which civil rights leader?

What was the goal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

The SNCC’s Voter Education Project focused on

The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South’s refusal to

Which act did little to guarantee the rights of African Americans to vote?

Which resolution gave war powers to the president?

What was the goal of Agent Orange?

It was after this that journalists began to openly criticize the Vietnam War.

What was Operation Rolling Thunder?

What was the credibility gap?

This relaxed the tension between the United States, the Soviet Union and China.

This document revealed that the United States government was not being honest with the public about the war in Vietnam.

The incident at Three Mile Island left many people in great doubt about the…

Title IX prevented this

What was the Indian Civil Rights Act?

Conservatives generally support

Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative called for…