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Final Exam Review
HIST-1302, D. Blanke
Please use the following terms to prepare for the final hour exam. Remember that full credit for the I.D. comes from correctly describing the person or event (3/10 points awarded) and giving the historical significance of that term (7/10 points awarded). You can expect to have eight terms to select from on the exam. You are required to answer four of these.
- Yalta Conference
- The “Long Telegram”
- “Containment”
- National Security Act (1947)
- NSC-68
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- HUAC
- Sen. Joseph McCarthy
- Age of Conformity/Consensus
- (Young) Elvis
- Alfred Kinsey Report
- Playboy
- Betty Friedan
- Legal Defense Fund
- Jackie Robinson (1947)
- Brown -v- Board of Education
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
- SCLC
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Malcolm X
- Ho Chi Minh
- Escalation
- 1954 Peace Accords
- “Operation Beef-Up”
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Tet Offensive (1968)
- John Kennedy
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Warren Commission (1964)
- Lyndon Johnson
- The Great Society
- Economic Opportunity Act (1964)
- Watergate
- Daniel Ellsberg
- “Plumbers”
- CREEP
- John Dean
- “Smoking Gun” Tapes
- 1973 Oil Embargo
- Jimmy Carter
- Camp David Accords
- Iran Hostage Crisis
- The New Right
- The Reagan Revolution
- Ronald Reagan
- The (Arthur) Laffer Curve
- “Reaganomics”
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- George Herbert Walker Bush
- The Gulf War
- Bill Clinton
- Clinton Impeachment (1998)
Essay. Please provide a complete, well-reasoned response to the following questions. Be sure to support your argument with specific examples from the lectures, the reader, or the text. Be sure to answer all of the questions asked. There will be two essay questions on the final exam. You are required to answer one of these.
A word of caution: As usual, you will not be graded (up or down) for your political, religious, or economic opinions concerning these answers. In other words, you will not be penalized for your beliefs. However, you will be graded on how well you justify your answers based on your use of specific historical evidence. While you should feel free to be critical of King, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, etc., do not mistake the passion of your feelings with the quality of your historical argument.
1. The Cold War was expressed both internationally and domestically. Describe (i) how the United States came to embrace this notion of Soviet “containment,” and (ii) give concrete examples of both international and domestic behavior by the U.S. which can be explained by this Cold War logic. (iii) How were events in the “sixties” connected to the Cold War?
2. From 1896 to 1965, the United States federal government completely reversed it's stance regarding the racial segregation of African-Americans. (i) What were the leading causes of rise of the Civil Rights movement, from 1896 to 1965? (ii) What was the role of the federal government in the Civil Rights movement during these years? (iii) What does Martin Luther King, Jr., add to the movement that makes it so successful in 1964-65?
3. (i) What are “the Sixties”? (ii) Based on your definition, what events box in the era (when do the sixties start, when do they end) and why do you think these events are important in defining the Sixties? (iii) According to your definition, was Kennedy, Johnson, or Nixon the “best” example of a 60's President? Support your opinion with specific examples.
4. In class, I argued that 1968 was a turning point in modern American history. (a) Focusing on events that led up to 1968, describe why this was so. Be sure to indicate the social, political, economic, and international pressures that affected the United States from 1945 to 1968.
5. In class, I argued that 1968 was a turning point in modern American history. (a) Focusing on events that followed 1968, describe why was this so. Be sure to indicate the social, political, economic, and international pressures that affected the United States from 1968 to, at least, 1992 [note: you can include the Clinton years, but do not include events after 2000].
Dr. Blanke Disclaimer: all exam materials are taken from lectures and the assigned reading (not just online sources) and these vary over the semesters
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