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Study Guide S15 Final HIST 17C
Study Guide Final Exam HIST 17C
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
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Cold War
Marshall Plan
United Nations
NATO
Containment
Domino Theory
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
United Farm Workers
Malcolm X
S15
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
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(SALT)
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
Strategic Defense Initiative
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sandra Day O’Connor
Americans With Disabilities Act
Persian Gulf War
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Study Guide S15 Final HIST 17C
Essay questions are worth 25 points each, and you must demonstrate superior knowledge on the
subject to earn all possible points. You are to write two essays.
Write an essay addressing the following:
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, choose one prompt from the list and write your second essay.
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 and the Tet Offensive? (10 points); How did Nixon change the
course of the war, explaining the Ho Chi Minh Trail and the bombing of Cambodia and Laos
(10 points).
3. Explain the Watergate scandal. 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).