7th & 8th Social Studies Study Guide for Final Exam

You are responsible for anything we have covered in class. This guide is only to assist you. World History: Chapters 26, 29, 32 & 34 & American Nation: Chapter 19-25, Section 2. Additional information from handouts.

Geography

  1. India
  2. South Asia
  3. China
  4. Canada
  5. Mexico
  6. Identify World Continents & Countries, Oceans

    History

  7. The Decline of European Colonialism
    1. Breakup of the British Empire (independence of colonial territories)
      1. Troubled Ireland
      2. Indian Nationalism – Gandhi
  8. Creation of People’s Republic of China
  9. Communists in China
  10. Civics, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, Articles, Amendments
  11. The Cold War
    1. Origins
    2. The Korean War
    3. America in the Cold War: McCarthyism; Eisenhower years, Kennedy years, space exploration, 1950’s and 1960s culture
  12. Civil rights movement
    1. Segregation/desegregation
    2. Nonviolent changes – MLK – bus boycott…
    3. Violent protests – Malcolm X
    4. Johnson years and civil rights movement
  13. Vietnam War
    1. Origins – French Indochina;
    2. Domino Theory;
    3. Tonkin Gulf; Tet Offensive;
    4. Anti-war protests
    5. Disengagement
    6. Nixon, Kissinger, War Powers Act
  14. Watergate Scandal
  15. Social and Environmental Activism
    1. Women’s liberation
    2. Farm workers movement
    3. American Indian Movement
    4. Emergence of environmentalism