AP U.S. History Fall 2016 Final Exam Review Part I

The final exam will consist of 100 multiple-choice questions drawn equally from Chapters 22-31. The questions will

mostly be from previous quizzes but many questions will be new. 26 of the questions will be stimulus-based. Students

should watch review videos for the chapters and/or read the chapter summaries in addition to focusing on the following

specifically tested concepts and materials:

Ch 21d) Catastrophe at Versailles Senate debate over Treaty of Versailles and Article X

Ch 22a) Conflicted Legacies of WWI Causes and effects of the Red Scare

Ch 22b) Politics in the 1920s Examples of corruption within Harding administration

Goals and examples of dollar diplomacy during the 1920’s

Nativism and reasons for immigration restrictions

Ch 22c) Intellectual Modernism Effects of Harlem Renaissance on blacks and whites

Significance of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Literary works and criticisms by Hemingway and Fitzgerald

Ch 22d) From Boom to Bust Major Weaknesses of the 1920s economy

Characteristics and symbolism of the flapper

Ch 23a) Early Responses to the Significance of gold standard in delaying economic recovery

Great Depression Hoover’s response to the Bonus Army and public reaction

Ch 23b) The New Deal Arrives Differences of personality and philosophy between Hoover and FDR

Purpose and components of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Purpose and components of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Significance and basis of ruling in Schechter v. United States

Ch 23c) The Second New Deal Keynesian economics and evolution of liberalism

and Redefining Liberalism Roosevelt’s response to Supreme Court and public reaction

Ch 24a) The Road to War Reasons for and components of Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937

Lend-Lease Act and role of FDR in preparing for war

Ch 24b) Organizing for Victory Examples of and exceptions to discrimination in armed services

Opportunities and setbacks for women in the workforce

Ch 24c) Life on the Home Front Purpose and significance of the Office of War Information

Reasons for and examples of rationing

Reasons for and effects of Executive Order 9066

Ch 24d) Fighting and Winning Significance of the Battle of Stalingrad

The War Strategy and overall commanders of U.S. in the Pacific

Reasons for and against dropping atomic bombs

Ch 25a) Containment and Reasons for and examples of the Truman Doctrine

A Divided Global Order Causes and details of formation of NATO

Causes and details of NSC-68

Significance of the Korean War

Reasons for and significance of Truman’s dismissal of MacArthur

Relationship between Munich analogy and U.S. foreign policy

Ch 25b) Cold War Liberalism Social and political effects of HUAC and McCarthyism

Ch 25c) Containment in the Causes and effects of the Bay of Pigs

Postcolonial World Resolution and effects of the Cuban missile crisis

Ch 26a) Postwar Prosperity Concerns and examples of military-industrial complex

And the Affluent Society Causes and effects of the launching of Sputnik

Criticisms made by The Affluent Society and The Other America

Components and effects of GI Bill

Collective bargaining and the labor-management accord

Themes of the Beats in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Ch 26b) The American Family Social and economic effects of the baby boom

In the Era of Containment Significance of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin

Ch 26c) A Suburban Nation Causes and effects of suburbanization

Ch 27 Introduction Civil rights movement and evolution of rights liberalism

Ch 27a) The Emerging Civil Jim Crow segregation in South vs. de facto in the North

Rights Struggle Arguments of Double V Campaign and resistance

Rulings in Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education

Eisenhower’s stance on civil rights

Ch 27b) Forging a Protest Causes and effects of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Movement Kennedy administration response to Freedom Rides

Significance of Birmingham protests in advancing civil rights

Components of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Components of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Effects of Voting Rights Act and Twenty-fourth Amendment

Ch 27c) Beyond Civil Rights Comparison of Malcolm X, Black Panther Party, and MLK

Early work and successes of Cesar Chavez

AP U.S. History Fall 2016 Final Exam Review Part II

Ch 28a) Liberalism at High Tide Comparison of background and political styles of JFK and LBJ

Criticisms and lasting effects of Johnson’s Great Society programs

Ch 28b) The Vietnam War Begins Causes and purpose of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Ch 28c) Days of Rage Significance of the Tet offensive

Description and significance of 1968 Democratic National Convention

Formation of women’s liberation and comparison to NOW

Significance of the Stonewall Inn

Ch 28d) Richard Nixon and the 1968 presidential election and Nixon’s “silent majority”

Politics of the Silent Majority Nixon’s strategy to end the war in Vietnam

Détente and examples of Détente under Nixon

Ch 29a) An Era of Limits Causes of OPEC embargo and economic/political effects

Causes of the environmental movement

Details of legislation passed in response to environmentalists

Causes and effects of deindustrialization

Ch 29b) Politics in Flux Context behind and reaction to Carter’s “malaise speech”

Political and social effects of Watergate

Constitutional debates surrounding Nixon and “imperial presidency”

Ch 29c) Reform and Reaction Proponents and opponents of affirmative action

Proponents and opponents of the ERA

Significance of Roe v. Wade and Griswold v. Connecticut

Ch 30a) The Rise of the New Right Major achievements in Carter’s foreign policy

Causes and effects of the Iranian hostage crisis

Ch 30b) The Dawning of the Focus of various components of Reagan coalition

Conservative Age Concerns of and influence of Moral Majority

Causes of increasing deficits and debt in the 1980s

Ch 30c) The End of the Cold War Details surrounding the 1991 Persian Gulf War

Effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union

Ch 31a) America in the Global Causes and effects of globalization

Economy

Ch 31b) Politics and Partisanship Components and effects of Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

In a New Era Reasons for impeachment of Bill Clinton and outcome of impeachment

Ch 31c) Into a New Century Significance of the 2000 presidential election

Domestic and foreign policy responses to the 9-11 attacks

Details surrounding the 2003 invasion of Iraq