Final Exam Review Know your chronologies Know what the presidents represented: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)

(D) Harry Truman (D) Dwight Eisenhower (R) John F. Kennedy (D) Lyndon B. Johnson (D) Richard Nixon (R) Gerald Ford (R) Understand political trends 1930s - New Deal; big government spending; liberal policies 1940s World War II; Cold War begins 1950s Conservatism 1960s Political Idealism; activism; Great Society big government spending 1970s Failure of big government? Constitutional crises; national paralysis? 1980 Republican insurgency; Cold War ends

Know the decades 1930s New Deal Programs CCC, AAA, WPA The Dust Bowl and universal misery Conservative opposition and Supreme Court packing New Deal Legacies Social Security Government intervention Welfare state Winds of war; U.S. isolationism; World War II begins; U.S. 1940s Pearl Harbor, Midway; Manhattan Project Executive Order 8802; Double V Campaign victory overseas/racism at home Potsdam Declaration Cold War begins; Containment Policy; Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine Berlin Airlift; Israeli statehood Soviet Union gets nuclear weapon; China turns communist; Korean War 1950s Retreat from liberalism; family time; group activity; a collective breath America turns to the suburbs; consumerism flourishes Women relegated to the household; conformity at home and in the workplace Counter Culture and the selling out of America

Domestic affairs: Brown v Board of Education Central High School Interstate highway system Foreign affairs: Korean War; Seeds of Vietnam conflict; Sputnik; Cuba and Castro; Arms race

1960s Kennedy Nixon campaign Unfulfilled idealism; idealist without illusions SCLC, CORE, SNCC, Black Panther Party and Black Power Crises and conflict Francis Gary Powers and the U-2 Bay of Pigs Kennedy Khrushchev summit Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Assassination / Lyndon B. Johnson elevated Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin; Great Society; Guns and Butter Civil Rights/Voting Rights 1968 and Tet; Nixon elected Nixon and Vietnam; Most turbulent decade of the 20th Century? 1970s Nixon and Kissinger; strategies for peace; Silent majority and popular support 1972 election; Christmas bombings, peace at hand; incident at the Watergate 1973 Peace declared; War continues for 2 more years Watergate; China, S.U., multi-polarity; Containment changes Dtente easing of Cold War tensions Constitutional crisis, accidental president, national malaise Names Faubus McNamara Khrushchev Diem Haldeman Ruby A. P. Randolph Warren Kennan Kissinger Viet Cong Ho Chi Minh Ehrlichman Powers Ellison Oswald Plumbers Castro Ellsburg Malcolm X Chavez NATO