SAQs for APUSH Period 8
Short answer questions designed to help students review for the annual exam and that relate to all important topics appearing in the Course and Exam Description
Topic 8.2 — The Cold War: Twenty questions that relate to a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc
Topic 8.3 — The Red Scare: Ten questions that relate to two different periods in American history, both characterized by the widespread fear of a potential rise of communism in the U.S.
Topic 8.4 — The Economy after 1945: Ten questions that relate to the period of time when factories that had once made bombs now made toasters, and toaster sales were rising.
Topic 8.5 — The Culture after 1945: Ten questions that relate to the values, practices, traditions, and beliefs of the Greatest Generation.
Topic 8.8 — The Vietnam War: Ten questions that relate to the second-longest war in American history, after the war in Afghanistan.
Topic 8.9 — The Great Society: Twenty-five questions that relate to a set of domestic programs launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65 and that sought, above all else, the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
Topic 8.10 — The African American Civil Rights Movement: Fifteen questions that relate to the post-World War II decades-long campaign by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement, and racial segregation in the United States.”
Topic 8.11 — The Civil Rights Movement Expands Forty questions that relate to the efforts to organize various groups of civil rights activists during the 1960s and 1970s to further expand social and economic equality.
Topic 8.12 — Youth Culture of the 1960s: Fifteen questions that relate to the values, practices, traditions, and beliefs of the young people living at the time of the most tumultuous and divisive decade in world history, one marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, political assassinations, the first man on the moon, and an emerging “generation gap.
Topic 8.13 — The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968–1980: Five questions that relate to a number of environmental issues and accidents beginning in the 1960s and that led to a diverse philosophical, social, and political post-World War II movement for addressing environmental issues.
Topic 8.14 — Society in Transition (work in progress)
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Questions relating to the topics appearing below have been worked into one or more of the posts appearing above:
- Topic 8.1 — Contextualizing
- Topic 8.6 — Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (the 1940s and 1950s)
- Topic 8.7 — America as a World Power
All SAQs associated with this page have been produced by a team of APUSH teachers. They are not official CB-created exam questions. While CB/AP cannot endorse this work, it “appreciate(s) the enthusiasm and effort to create and share resources that students and teachers in the AP community may find helpful.”
