Terms and Names: Define Each Term with Complete Sentences, Using Your Own Words s3
AP US History Name______Period______
UNIT
16A / Study Guide / The Domestic Issues of the 1950’s and 1960’s1945-1968
Terms and Names: Define each term with complete sentences, using your own words
A. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (“GI Bill”)B. Dr. Benjamin Spock
C. “Sun Belt” vs. “Frost Belt” vs. “Rust Belt”
D. Levittown
E. DIxiecrats
F. International Business Machines
G. Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique
H. Diner’s Club
I. Billy Graham
J. Elvis Presley
K. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
L. Checkers Speech
M. Emmett Till / N. Jackie Robinson
O. Thurgood Marshall
P. Earl Warren
Q. Orval Faubus
R. SCLC
S. Robert Kennedy
T. Peace Corps
U. Freedom Riders
V. Lee Harvey Oswald
W. Barry Goldwater
X. Medicare/Medicaid
Y. “Freedom Summer”
Z. Black Power movement
Short Answer: Carefully answer each question in paragraph form, using information from the text. It is
best if you can put it in your own words.
Pages 852-862
1. Discuss the slump in the US Economy after WWII and Congressional reactions to it. How did the Truman Administration seek to promote economic development?
2. Describe the long term impact of the GI Bill.
3. Describe the economic boom that began in 1948, and discuss the long term impact of that upturn.
4. How did the growing economy of postwar period impact women?
5. How did military spending impact the post war economy?
6. Discuss the impact of cheap energy on the economy.
7. Describe the demographic changes in America that resulted from the changing economy.
8. Account for the housing boom of the 1950’s and the impact of the suburbanization of America.
9. Describe the impact of the “baby boom” generation on American culture for the next 50 years.
Pages 875-877
10. Describe the candidates, issues, and results of the Presidential election of 1948.
11. List the elements of Truman’s “Fair Deal”.
Pages 882-888
12. Explain the impact of the employment of women in the 1950’s and the impact of television on views of women’s roles. How did some women react?
13. Describe the impact of the popularity of television on American life and the economy of the 1950’s.
14. How did youth culture impact the U.S. in the 1950’s and how did traditionalists react?
15. Describe the background and political style of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Pages 890-897
16. Describe the background of the civil rights struggle in the South before the 1950’s.
17. Who were the people involved with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and what were its effects?
18. How did Harry S. Truman impact the civil rights movement during his presidency?
19. Understand the decision in Brown v. Board of Education and it’s immediate and long term effects.
20. Compare and contrast the goals and strategies of the SCLC and SNCC.
21. Describe the Eisenhower administration policies toward Mexican immigration and Native Americans.
22. Explain the impact of the Federal Highway System on the economy, the environment, and cities in America.
Pages 902-908
23. Understand the impact of religion on the election of 1960.
24. Account for John F. Kennedy’s popularity. What gave him the edge over Nixon in the Presidential election?
25. What were the lasting effects of the Eisenhower years? What was “his greatest failing?”
26. Create a chart of American authors in the postwar period and their works.
Pages 909-911
27. How did John Kennedy represent a new generation in American politics?
28. List the elements of Kennedy’s “New Frontier”.
Pages 916-927
29. Describe the difficulty that civil rights activists had in integrating southern universities.
30. Explain the importance of the city of Birmingham in the civil rights campaign, and describe the events that took place their. Note the importance of television in publicizing these events.
31. Understand the purpose for and the importance of the March on Washington in August of 1963.
32. Understand the impact of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on American society.
33. Describe the personal background and political style of Lyndon Johnson.
34. Identify the important parts of the Civil Right Act of 1964.
35. Identify the candidates, issues, and outcome of the Presidential election of 1964.
36. Compare the programs of LBJ’s Great Society to the FDR’s New Deal, and identify the important programs of the Great Society.
37. Describe the events of “Freedom Summer,” and understand the importance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
38. How did the Civil Rights Movement change after the passage of the Voting Rights Act? Understand the evolution of the Black Power movement.
39. Understand the impact of the civil rights movement into the late 1960’s and beyond.