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between the last letter and the period. Use one space between the period and the first letter of the next sentence. This goes against the grain for people using the typography instilled by generations of old-fashioned typewriter users, but modern word-processors nicely accommodate the spacing after a period, and double-spacing after a period can only serve to discombobulate the good intentions of one's software.
See Quotation Marks and Parentheses for special placement considerations with those marks. Use a period at the end of a command.
Hand in the poster essays no later than noon on Friday. In case of tremors, leave the building immediately.
The teacher asked why Maria had left out the easy exercises. My father used to wonder why Egbert's ears were so big.
Occasionally, a statement will end with a question. When that happens, it is appropriate to end the sentence with a question mark.
We can get to Boston quicker, can't we, if we take the interstate? His question was, can we end this statement with a question mark? She ended her remarks with a resounding why not?
Acronyms (abbreviations [usually made up of the first letter from a series of words] which we pronounce as words, not a series of letters) usually do not require periods: NATO, NOW, VISTA, LASER, SCUBA, RADAR. Abbreviations we pronounce by spelling out the letters may or may not use periods and you will have to use a dictionary to be sure: FBI, NAACP, NCAA, U.S.A., U.N.I.C.E.F., etc.