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FINAL EXAM – Tuesday May 6 at 8:00 p.m.
HIST 1302 – HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SOUTHEAST
STUDY GUIDE
SECTION I. Multiple choice section. 50 questions. 150 points. Read questions carefully.
Answer scantron with pencil.
SECTION II. Essay section. 150 points. Answer in blue book with pen.
ESSAY PROMPT:
Discuss the origins, the course, and the legacy of the Vietnam War, 1950-1975. Use
the readings, lectures, and the films shared in class as your sources. Keep a chronological
order. Cite specific examples. This essay should be no less than two full handwritten pages.
Study ALL materials covered since the last exam, including:
Books, Articles, and Documents
 Making America, Chapters 24-29.
 American Perspectives Chapter 10: David M. Oshinsky, “A Conspiracy so Immense:
Wheeling” (1983)
 Malcolm X, “Learning to Read” (1965)
American Perspectives Ch. 13: “Financial Scandal and U.S.-Iran Relations” (1989).
 Timothy Noah, Excerpts from “The Great Divergence” (2012)
 Michelle Alexander, Excerpts from “The New Jim Crow” (2012)
Lectures
 The Vietnam War
 The Civil Rights Movement
 From WWII to the Cold War
 The Cold War in the 1950s
 Harvest of Empire
 Ideology and Political Economy
 American Political Parties since 1856
Films
Harvest of Empire
Untold History Episode 7: “Johnson, Nixon, and Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune”
Disclaimer: I have not written the exam yet. Students must consider the terms below as
preliminary concepts that will help in getting an idea of the type of multiple choice
questions that will be in the final exam, but they are not a substitute for a rigorous study of
the materials assigned for this test.
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SOME KEY TERMS:
The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Gubbuldin Hekmatyar
Osma Bin Ladin
Ayatollah Kohmeini
The Iran Hostage Crisis
Shah Reza Pahlevi
Sadam Hussein
Iran-Contra Scandal
The Mujahedeen and Opium
The Contras and Cocaine
Oliver Stone and Vietnam
Napalm
Agent Orange
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
The Military Industrial Complex
The Prison Industrial Complex
The New Deal Democratic Coalition
William Calley
My Lai Massacre
Nuclear Detonations until 2006
U.S.-Soviet Union Arms Race
Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
“Learning to Read”
Black Panthers
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reies Lopez Tijerina
Brown Berets
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Freedom Rides
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Barry Goldwater
George Wallace
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthyism
Project Minaret
COINTELPRO
Operation Condor
Operation Menu
White population in 2010
Latino population in 2010
Mao Zedong
Korean War
Containment
Domino Theory
Dienbienphu
Ngo Dim Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Minh
Viet Cong
NATO and The Warsaw Pact
NSC-68
Religious differences during the Cold War
Judeo-Christian heritage
Milton Friedman
Richard Nixon’s Checkers speech
The Montgomery boycott in 1955–1956
Brown v. Board of Education
Hernandez v. Texas
Thurgood Marshall
W.E.B. DuBois
Jack Kerouac
Elvis Presley
Richard Nixon in China
Nixon’s Southern Strategy
Dog-Whistle Politics
Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty
The Port Huron Statement:
The National Organization for Women
Cesar Chavez
Dolores Huerta
Larry Itliong
Richard Nixon’s New Federalism
Richard Nixon and Affirmative Action
Richard Nixon and the Supreme Court
The U.S. Policy of Vietnamization
Stagflation
The Equal Rights Amendment
Tiananmen Square in 1989
The 1992 Presidential Election
NAFTA
The “Declaration for Global Democracy”
Prison population in the late 1990s
Militia groups in America during the 1990s
George W. Bush’s first term
The USA Patriot Act:
The Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
Citizens United Suprme Court Case
“Fox Can Lie” Florida Court of Appeals Case
Ronald Reagan and Star Wars
The Great Divergence
The New Jim Crow