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Study Guide S17 Final HIST 17C
Study Guide Final Exam HIST 17C Spring 2017
Progressive Era
Roosevelt Corollary
Jim Crow laws
Lusitania
New Deal
Social Security Act
Dust Bowl
Executive Order 9066
Lend Lease
Bracero Program
State of Israel
Marshall Plan
United Nations
NATO
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Domino Theory
Cold War
McCarthyism
Military-industrial complex
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
Earl Warren
Robert F. Kennedy
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and
1968
UFW (United Farm Workers)
Malcolm X
Gulf of Tonkin
Tet Offensive
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Agent Orange
My Lai massacre
Pentagon Papers
Gloria Steinem
National Organization for
Women (NOW)
The Feminine Mystique
Roe v. Wade
Equal Rights Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
Détente
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks)
Watergate Scandal
John Dean
Saturday Night Massacre
Panama Canal Treaty
Camp David Accords
Iran hostage crisis
Moral Majority
Geraldine Ferraro
Iran-Contra scandal
Oliver North
SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sandra Day O’Connor
ADA (Americans With Disabilities
Act)
Persian Gulf War
Globalization
impeachment
NAFTA (North American Free Trade
Agreement)
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Study Guide S17 Final HIST 17C
Write a careful and thoughtful response in essay form to the prompt below, and turn it in by June 21,
2017. Essay questions are worth 25 points each and you must demonstrate superior knowledge on
the subject to earn all possible points.
1. Which U.S. President of the twentieth century, do you feel was the most influential? (not
necessarily which one you like the most). In your answer please include three specific reasons
that you think he was the most influential (i.e. laws, policies, foreign or domestic
accomplishments) [15 points]. In addition, name and identify at least two of this president’s
most important advisors or supporters, and explain why they were important. [10 points]
In addition, you have a choice on which prompt you would like to address during the final exam.
1. What was the Black freedom struggle? Please name three pivotal events and three important
people in the movement (15 points). How did the Black freedom struggle influence two other
reform movements of the 1960s and 1970s? (10 points)
2. How did each of the following US Presidents engage in the Vietnam War? Truman, Eisenhower
and Kennedy (5 points). How did the war proceed under the Johnson Administration and
explain the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Tet Offensive? (10 points). How did Nixon change
the course of the Vietnam War, explaining the Ho Chi Minh Trail and the bombing of
Cambodia and Laos (10 points).
3. Explain the Watergate scandal, including what precipitated the events leading to the
Congressional inquiry. Where did it occur and why?(10 points). What roles did John Dean and
Samuel Ervin play in the scandal? (5 points) What was the “Saturday Night Massacre” and
what happened to President Richard Nixon? (10 points).