Mr. Head HIST 108 Final Exam Study Guide Below are some main concepts from each chapter that you should study for your final exam. The final exam will be much more heavily focused on Chapters 27-32, but there will be questions from chapters 16-26 as well. This is by no means an exhaustive study guide, but if you study and understand these items and understand how they are connected, you will be in a good position to succeed on your final. Study at least 20 Minutes per night, starting NOW. Minimal effort will result in a minimal grade, strong effort should result in a strong grade. This study guide is meant to be a GENERAL GUIDELINE The Multiple choice section of your exam is on Monday May 31. The Essay will be the week before, at a TBA date. Seniors: Your dates will be announced ASAP. Overarching Themes that cross Multiple Chapters and Time Periods Changing US Gov. Policy towards Native Americans Impact of the 3 big eras of technological Advance: (Industrialization, the Media/Jet Age, the Computer Age) Trusts, Anti-Trust Labor Unions (Organized Labor), Anti-labor union sentiment Socialism in the United States Advancement of Women s Rights/Equality African American Civil Rights Other Civil Rights Movements The development of the American Welfare System Changing role of the Federal Government (Post Civil War, Progressive, 20s Conservatism, New Deal, Johnson Liberalism, Reagan Conservatism, 90s) The Cold War The Relationship between Americans and the Government Fears of Communist influence Liberalism v. Conservatism Chapter 16 The Concept of the West vs. the Reality Culture of the Plains Indians Chinatowns, The Chinese Migration, Anti-Chinese Sentiments The Indian Wars The Farmers Cycle of Debt/ Farmer s Grievances Chapter 17 The Importance of Steel to the US Taylorism, Scientific Management, Mass Production Importance/Impact of the Railroads Social Darwinism and its critics
Women and Child Labor Violence and the Labor Movement Chapter 18 Immigration and Urbanization The Great Migration Strains of Urban Life The Political Machine Women s roles as Consumers Rise of the Consumer Society and Leisure Activities Germ Theory/improvements in medical science Chapter 19 Calls for Political Reform (Stalwarts vs. Half-Breeds) The Grangers, Farmers Alliances, Populists POPULISM The Silver Question American Imperialism The Spanish American War Chapter 20 Progressivism The Social Gospel The Professions The New Woman Women s Suffrage Progressive Reforms The Changing African American Civil Rights Movement Temperance Theodore Roosevelt Conservationism Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Chapter 21 The Roosevelt Corollary Dollar Diplomacy Causes of WWI The Zimmerman Telegram (What conditions existed that allowed this to even happen?) Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Why did the US Join the War? Technological advancement Espionage and Sedition Acts The Fourteen Points The League of Nations The (First) Red Scare Sacco and Vanzetti
Chapter 22 Radio Commercial products Eugenics Welfare Capitalism Organized Labor Pink Collar Jobs Struggles of the Farmers Redefinition of Motherhood The Harlem Renaissance Prohibition Nativism Religious Fundamentalism The Scopes Monkey Trial Chapter 23 The Long Term Causes of the Great Depression The Immediate Cause of the Great Depression The Dust Bowl Women and Families in the Great Depression Importance of the Radio/ Films The Popular Front Herbert Hoover and his attempts to end the Depression The Bonus Army Chapter 24 FDR FDR and the Banks FDIC The New Deal FDR and the Courts NRA TVA Attempts to create jobs (CWA, CCC, WPA) Critics of the New Deal (Coughlin, Townshend, Long, etc.) The Second New Deal Social Security The New Democratic Coalition New Deal and Race New Deal and Women Chapter 25 Failure of the League of Nations The Dawes Plan Rise of Fascism The Nye Commission US Neutrality
Cash and Carry Lend Lease Anschluss Appeasement German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Chapter 26 Pearl Harbor Doolittle Raid Important Turning Points in the War Island Hopping Invasion of Africa Invasion of Italy (Why?) America and the Holocaust The Japanese Internment Homefront California Women in Wartime D-Day The Manhattan Project and the A-bomb African Americans and the War Zoot Suits and Mexican Americans The Battle of the Bulge Invasion of Japan? The Double V Chapter 27 Causes of the Cold War Containment Doctrine John Foster Dulles, MORAL war Rollback The Marshall Plan NATO The GI Bill of Rights The Fair Deal The Promise and Danger of the Atom The Korean War McCarthyism, HUAC, and Subversion Chapter 28 Economic growth of the 50s The Baby Boom Medical Breakthroughs Television The Hydrogen Bomb The Space Program Suburbs and the Suburban family The Beats, Youth Culture Rock n Roll The Other America
Brown V. Board of Education The Little Rock Nine Montgomery Bus Boycott Causes of the Civil Rights Movement Massive Retaliation The Military Industrial Complex Chapter 29 JFK LBJ The Great Society Medicare/Medicaid SNCC, CORE, MLK, SCLC Civil Rights as a Moral Issue Impacts of Non-violent protests (both national and global) Affirmative Action Black Power, Nation of Islam, Malcolm X Flexible Response The Cuban Missile Crisis Causes of the Vietnam War The Escalation Pacification and the Hearts and Minds Campaign The Tet Offensive RFK Impacts of the Assassinations of 1968 Chapter 30 The New Left and SDS The Counterculture American Indian Movement La Raza and the UFW Feminism, The Feminine Mystique NOW The ERA Vietnamization The Pentagon Papers The Mai Lai Massacre Causes of People turning against the Vietnam War Peace with Honor Nixon and China: (Shuttle Diplomacy) Détente Silent Majority The Warren Court OPEC Oil Embargos Stagflation Watergate
Chapter 31 Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter The Crisis of Confidence The Iran Hostage Crisis The Sagebrush Rebellion/Tax Rebellion Evangelical Christianity The New Right Neoconservatives Reaganomics The Evil Empire and Star Wars The Collapse of the Soviet Union Iran-Contra Scandal The First Gulf War Note: You are responsible for the following content from chapter 32 even though it may or may not have been discussed in class! Chapter 32 The Clinton Impeachment The Election of 2000 African Americans in the Post Civil Rights Era The New World Order 9/11 The War on Terror The Iraq War Potential Essay Questions: For the first portion of your final, you will be required to write 2 Essays. One will be chosen from a selection of short essays (2 paragraph, argumentative questions). One will be a traditional 5 paragraph essay. Use specific details in both. If you would like to make outlines and review them with me BEFORE the day of the exam I will provide you with tips and help. Potential Short Essay Questions Note: Each of these questions asks you to argue one side of the presented situation. Use Specific Details to prove your point. No Mugwumps here, pick a side. Of the Three questions, 2 will be chosen and you must write on one. 1. Explain why was the most important technological advance of the time period discussed this semester. Use specific details to back up your argument. 2. Was the Containment doctrine a benefit or a detriment during the Cold War? Use specific details to back up your argument 3. Should the United States have fought the Iraq War (The one that started in 2003)? Use specific details to back up your argument.
Potential 5 Paragraph Essay Questions Note: You will be required to write a 5 paragraph essay on one of the following essay prompts. Two will be chosen on the day of the final, and you will choose which one on which to write. 1. Analyze the cause and formation of the national system of public welfare. Arrange your essay into three portions. Post-Civil war to 1920s, The New Deal Era, and the Great Society/Nixon Era. (Hind that will not be on the actual test):think of the post CW to 1920s in terms of the fight for a public welfare system (soldiers pensions, bonus army, temperance crusade, settlement house movement, progressive impulses, etc.) 2. American Foreign Policy changed significantly throughout the time period we studied this semester. In your essay discuss the essential aspects of foreign policy in the following time periods: 1877-1918, 1929-1941, and 1945-1991. Use specific details. 3. Chart the growth, change, and ultimate success of the African American Civil Rights movement we have discussed this semester. Please cover the entire time period from 1877-the 2000s. Use specific details including names, places, court cases, and legislation. 4. The Film Invasion of the Body Snatchers is but one example of Cold War era fear of communism, but we know that this fear existed long before the cold war. In your essay, show the impact of communism in America, particularly the growth and impact of anti-communist sentiments. Use specific details throughout.