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Study Guide W15 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
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Cold War
Marshall Plan
United Nations
NATO
Containment
Domino Theory
McCarthyism
Military-industrial complex
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gulf of Tonkin
Tet Offensive
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Agent Orange
My Lai massacre
Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
Robert F. Kennedy
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and
1968
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United Farm Workers
Malcolm X
Gloria Steinem
National Organization for
Women (NOW)
The Feminine Mystique
Roe v. Wade
Equal Rights Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
Détente
Earl Warren
Watergate Scandal
John Dean
Saturday Night Massacre
Pentagon Papers
Camp David Accords
Panama Canal Treaty
Moral Majority
Geraldine Ferraro
Iran-Contra scandal
Oliver North
Iran hostage crisis
Strategic Defense Initiative
Mikhail Gorbachev
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(SALT)
Sandra Day O’Connor
Americans With Disabilities Act
Persian Gulf War
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Study Guide W15 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.
The following will appear on the final:
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]
Three other essay options will appear on the test and you will be asked to choose
one to answer. The following are samples of what you may expect.
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).