Additional trivia

Here is some additional info provided by one of your classmates:

The Morbid Curse of Robert Todd Lincoln?

Robert Todd Lincoln, the president's oldest son, was at Lincoln's side when he passed away in 1865. Years later, as Secretary of War, Todd Lincoln was present and ready to meet President James A Garfield, when Garfield was assassinated. And, when Todd Lincoln entered the Pan-American Exposition Hall in Buffalo, NY, President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist.

Eerie Similarities Between Honest Abe and JFK

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946

Lincoln failed to win the Vice Presidential nomination in 1856.
Kennedy failed to win the Vice Presidential nomination in 1956.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Lincoln defeated Stephen Douglas who was born in 1813.
Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon who was born in 1913.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost children while in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both Presidents had Vice Presidents named Johnson.

Lincoln's Vice President was called Andrew Johnson who served in the House of Representatives in 1847.
Kennedy's Vice President was called Lyndon Johnson who served in the House of Representatives in1947.

Both successors (their Vice Presidents) were named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1838. (not 1839)!
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by the three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Lincoln was shot at the theatre called "Ford."
Kennedy was shot in a car named "Lincoln", made by Ford.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

NOTE: President Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 and died on April 15, 1865 (age 56)
President Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 and died on Nov 22, 1963 (age 46)

Diagnostic/Post Diagnostic Scores

Congratulations, you've learned some things! In many cases, you've learned quite a bit about history. Below are the Pre/Post Diagnostic class averages for each section.

2112 MW 8 a.m. Diagnostic class avg.-> 8.0/20; Post Diagnostic class avg.-> 15.4/20

2111 MW 11 a.m. Diagnostic class avg.-> 5.8/20; Post Diagnostic class avg.-> 14.7/20

1122 TH 9:30 Diagnostic class avg.-> 6.9/20; Post Diagnostic class avg.-> 14.3/20

2112 TH 11 a.m. Diagnostic class avg.-> 7.8/20; Post Diagnostic class avg.-> 17.7/20

2112 Unit 3 Identifications

2112 Unit 3 Identifications

1. Legacy of the New Deal and End of the Great Depression
2. Rise to Power- Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, FDR, Franco, Tojo
3. Defiance of Versailles, Anti-Semitism, Invasion of Poland, Blitzkreig
4. New Alliances (WWI --> WWII)
5. Pearl Harbor
6. WWII propaganda, nationalism, and gender
7. WWII and race (at home and abroad)
8. Island Hopping
9. Four Fronts and Turning Point Battles
10. Hitler and Blitzkreig
11. WWII technology and weapons
12. Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Internment Camps
13. Holocaust and perverted nationalism
14. Manhatten Project
15. FDR and the Yalta Conference
16. Atomic bomb decision and consequences
17. Cold War origins Post WWII
18. Truman's Cold War Stance
19. Truman's Civil War Stance
20. Truman's Reelection
21. Chinese Revolution
22. The Korean Conflict
23. General MacArthur and Korea
24. McCarthyism
25. Alger Hiss
26. Eisenhower as president
27. Conformist 50s
28. The Boob Tube
29. Suburbian Values
30. White Flight
31. Ed Sullivan Show
32. Baby Boom
33. Interstate System
34. Beatniks
35. Brown v. Board of Education
36. Montgomery Bus Boycott and MLK Jr.
37. Little Rock Nine
38. Peaceful Coexistence
39. Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis
40. JFK/Nixon Debate
41. Camelot (Kennedy family and Jackie)
42. New Frontier and JFK's Civil War Stance
43. March on Washington
44. Berlin Airlift and the Iron Curtain
45. Robert S. MacNamara
46. Domino Theory
47. Lyndon Baines Johnson and Civil Rights (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965)
48. Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society
49. Lyndon Baines Johnson and Vietnam
50. Black Separatism, Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers
51. New Left (SDS), New Right (YAF), and the Demonstration Generation
52. Counter Culture, Music, Drugs, and Lifestyle
53. Haight-Asbury Street
54. Woodstock
55. Nixon, Vietnam, and Vietnamizatioin
56. Henry Kissenger
57. Watergate and Nixon's Resignation
58. Gerald Ford's Presidency
59. OPEC, Inflation, and the Economy
60. Decline of the Presidency
61. Jimmy Carter and the Middle East (including Olympic Boycott)
62. Reagan Revolution and Reaganomics
63. Defense and Foreign Policy: Star Wars, Salt I, Salt II, Iran Contra
64. Reagan and Latin America
65. Reagan and the Cold War
66. Reagan and Conservative Backlash
67. Bush and Desert Storm
66. Clinton Presidency
68. Cyber-America
69. 9/11, Global Terrorism
70. Globalization, Neo-Colonialism, Transnationalism

1122 Unit Three Identifications

HIST 1122
Unit 3 Identifications

1. Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism as causes of WWI
2. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
3. Triple Entente (leaders, countries, formation, and strategy)
4. Triple Alliance (same as above)
5. Trench warfare
6. New technology and the world’s first industrial war
7. Schlieffen Plan
8. Stalemate in the West
9. Bolshevik Revolution
10. U.S. isolationism and entrance into the war
11. Fourteen Points
12. Treaty of Versailles
13. Economic/Human costs
14. Legacy of WWI
15. Buying on margin, speculation
16. 1920s U.S. prosperity (boom and bust)
17. Consumer culture
18. Stock market crash
19. U.S. depression creates Global Depression (debt cycles)
20. Lenin’s communism to Stalinism
21. Fascism in Italy and the rise of Benito Mussolini
22. Russia in the Great Depression
23. Nazism in Germany and the rise of Adolf Hitler
24. Women in Fascist or Nazi governments
25. The New Deal and FDR as U.S. president
26. Changing roles in government in U.S. versus Europe 1930s
27. Communism/Socialism
28. Hitler’s denouncement of Versailles, Sudetenland, Munich Pact
29. Axis Powers alliance
30. Non-aggression pact with Russia
31. Holocaust/Final solution
32. Blitzkrieg
33. Battle of Britain
34. German invasion of Soviet Union and Battle of Stalingrad
35. Normandy Invasion/D-Day
36. Yalta Conference
37. V-E Day
38. Pearl Harbor
39. Island Hopping
40. Battle of Midway
41. Iwo Jima and Okinawa
42. Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the consequences of U.S. and Japanese leaders’ decisions
43. Human costs
44. WWII technology
45. Creation of the state of Israel
46. Cold War super powers
47. Decolonization movements in Africa, Middle East, Latin America
48. Domino Theory
49. Cuban Missile Crisis
50. Berlin Airlift/Berlin Wall/Iron Curtain
51. Korean War
52. Vietnam
53. Space race
54. Nuclear arms race
55. Legacy of colonialism
56. Good Neighbor Policy
57. General Abdel Nasser
58. Anwar Sadat
59. Yasir Arafat
60. Sharon
61. Saddam Hussein
62. European Union
63. Global communication
64. Transnational, Transglobal trade/culture
65. Today’s definition of the “West”
66. Environmentalism, Human rights, Terrorism

2111 Unit Three Identifications

HIST 2111
Unit 3 Identifications

1. King Cotton/Cotton trends
2. Plantation system structure/Peculiar Institution
3. Demographics of Antebellum South
4. Slave realities and passive resistance
5. William Lloyd Garrison
6. Frederick Douglass
7. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
8. William Stills and the Underground Railroad
9. Sojourner Truth
10. Harriet Tubman
11. Manifest Destiny’s influence on the extention of slavery
12. Missouri Compromise of 1820
13. Fugitive Slave laws
14. Birth of the Republican Party and the party platform
15. Popular Sovereignty
16. Free soilers
17. Compromise of 1850
18. Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
19. LeCompton Constitution
20. Bleeding Kansas (Border Ruffians, Pottawattomie Creek Massacre, Harper’s Ferry, Violence in the Senate)
21. John Brown
22. Dred Scott decision
23. Election of 1860
24. Fort Sumter
25. Southern v. Northern advantages for Civil War
26. Border States in the Civil War
27. Anaconda Plan
28. New weapons in the Civil War
29. Merrimac/Monitor
30. Union Generals
31. Southern Generals
32. First Battle/Second Battle of Bull Run
33. Fredericksburg
34. Antietam
35. Gettysburg
36. Emancipation Proclamation
37. Sherman’s March
38. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
39. Lincoln’s reeleciton and assassination
40. Legacy of the Civil War ($, fatalities, North/South relations, African Am.)
41. Andrew Johnson
42. Lincoln’s 10% Plan
43. Reconstruction Act of 1867
44. 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
45. Ku Klux Klan
46. Freedman’s Bureau
47. Black Codes
48. O.O. Howard
49. Carpetbaggers/Scalawags
50. Wade-Davis Bill
51. Johnson’s Impeachment
52. Thaddeus Stevens and the Radical Republicans
53. Seward’s Icebox
54. Uylsses S. Grant as President
55. Gilded Age politics and society
56. Election of 1876
57. Compromise of 1877
58. Legacy of Reconstruction

Scholarship Opportunity

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1122 Final Quiz

14 Points question (worth 2%):

Explain the main themes of The Fourteen Points and their intended impact on Europe after WW1, then analyze how The Fourteen Points helped to set the stage for WWII.

Due April 18th HOWEVER if you turn it in by April 11th I will add an extra point to your quiz grade.

See the following websites. The first is the document to be analyzed, the other helps in analyzing post war Europe.

Primary Source- Wilson's Fourteen Points
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wilson14.htm

WWI Resource-
www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm

Upcoming Dates

M,W classes:

April 10: Sign ups for presentations
April 12: Turn in Presentation Outline, Include the following:
1-Topic, 2-Thesis/Argument, 3-Brief Outline, 4-Sources, 5-Write three discussion questions.
April 17: Fifth and final quiz
April 19: Presentations
April 24: Presentations
April 26: Presentations
May 1: Last Class/Final Review (Last Day to turn in Extra Credit Assignment)

T, Th classes:

April 11: Sign ups for presentations
April 13: Turn in Presentation Outline, Include the following:
1-Topic, 2-Thesis/Argument, 3-Brief Outline, 4-Sources, 5-Write three discussion questions.
April 18: Fifth and final quiz
April 20: Presentations
April 25: Presentations
April 27: Presentations/Last Class/Final Review (Last Day to turn in Extra Credit Assignment)

Th. only class:

April 13: Turn in Presentation Outline, Include the following:
1-Topic, 2-Thesis/Argument, 3-Brief Outline, 4-Sources, 5-Write three discussion questions.
April 20: Presentations
April 27: Last class/Final Review, Fifth and final quiz, Last day to turn in Extra Credit