2112 Final Exam Study Guide

Identifications

Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism
Alliances and Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Otto Von Bismarck
U.S. isolationism and events that pull us into WWI
Technology and industrialization in warfare
Trench warfare and stalemate on the West
Bolshevik Revolution
Mexican Revolution
WWI Propaganda and First Amendment challenges (incorporate themes of loyalty, patriotism, etc.)
U.S. War Heroes
African Americans and Women during wartime and after wartime
Prohibition and the 18th Amendment
Fourteen Points v. Treaty of Versailles
Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”, Cultural Fundamentalism, Religious Fundamentalism
Effects of new forms of communication, entertainment, transportation on American culture and economy
Henry Ford and his contributions
Ideology of Consumption, Consumerism, Materialism
New industries due to industrial revolution and mass production
Red Scare, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Palmer Raids
New Klan
Scopes Monkey Trial
Great Migration
NAACP, UNIA, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington
Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance
Harding, Coolidge (Silent Cal), and Hoover policies toward big business and govt. regulation and intervention
Buying on Margin, Speculation
Stock Market Crash
Hoovervilles, Bonus Army castastrophe, Dust Bowl, “Forgotten” Man
Vicious cycle of lowered production, consumption, labor
International Depression
First 100 Days (include organizations set up during this time, e.g. CCC, WPA, etc) and FDR’s New Deal
Fireside Chats
AAA, S.Ct., Court Packing, Checks and Balances
Movies and music
NRA and nationalism (and perverted/distorted meanings of nationalism)
Anti-New Deal, Father Coughlin, Huey Long
Legacy of the New Deal and End of the Great Depression
Rise to Power- Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, FDR, Franco, Tojo
Defiance of Versailles, Anti-Semitism, Invasion of Poland, Blitzkreig
New Alliances (WWI --> WWII)
Pearl Harbor
WWII propaganda, nationalism, and gender
WWII and race (at home and abroad)
Island Hopping
Four Fronts and Turning Point Battles
Hitler and Blitzkreig
WWII technology and weapons
Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Internment Camps
Holocaust and perverted nationalism
Manhatten Project
FDR and the Yalta Conference
Atomic bomb decision and consequences
Cold War origins Post WWII
Truman's Civil War Stance
Truman's Reelection
Chinese Revolution
The Korean Conflict
General MacArthur and Korea
McCarthyism
Eisenhower as president
Conformist 50s
The Boob Tube
Suburbian Values
White Flight
Ed Sullivan Show
Baby Boom
Interstate System
Beatniks
Brown v. Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott and MLK Jr.
Little Rock Nine
Peaceful Coexistence
Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK/Nixon Debate
New Frontier and JFK's Civil War Stance
March on Washington
Berlin Airlift and the Iron Curtain
Robert S. MacNamara
Domino Theory
Lyndon Baines Johnson and Civil Rights (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society
Lyndon Baines Johnson and Vietnam
Black Separatism, Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers
New Left (SDS), New Right (YAF), and the Demonstration Generation
Counter Culture, Music, Drugs, and Lifestyle
Haight-Asbury Street
Woodstock
Nixon, Vietnam, and Vietnamizatioin
Watergate and Nixon's Resignation
Gerald Ford's Presidency
Jimmy Carter and the Middle East (including Olympic Boycott)
Reagan Revolution and Reaganomics
Defense and Foreign Policy: Star Wars, Salt I, Salt II, Iran Contra
Reagan and Latin America
Reagan and the Cold War
Bush and Desert Storm
Clinton Presidency
Cyber-America
9/11, Global Terrorism
Globalization, Neo-Colonialism, Transnationalism


1. Explain how the the Treaty of Versailles, the Great Depression and the instability of Europe and the U.S. led to WWII.

2. Describe the multiple facets of WWII. Include fronts, strategies, turning points, and actions toward peoples considered "inferior."

3. Discuss certain ideas and practices employed during WWII (and justified by nationalism) that affected gender and race both during and after the war. What new movements and/or reactions arose as a result and why?

4. Analyze why post WWII created the superpowers of the US and Soviet Union?

5. What were the major events and countries involved in the Cold War struggle? What do these events represent about the nature of power and nationalism?

6. Analyze 1950s culture in America. Consider issues of technology, consumer culture, economics, demographics, and the role of government.

7. How did the Cold War affect domestic and foreign policy and events in the 1950s and 1960s.

8. Explain the failures and successes of the Civil Rights Movement. Describe the approaches and methodologies used by the SNCC and SCLC.

9. Describe the legacies of presidents from Johnson to Reagan. Include the domestic, foreign, and economic policies and results.

10. Was the world we live in today created out of post-WWII industrial capitalism? Explain. Then consider the following statement: How does America continue to subscribe to contradictions found within American Exceptionalism? Include concepts such as globalization, neo-colonialism, and transnationalism.

11. How and why did World War One start. Explain the emergence of technology, imperialism, nationalism, militarism, alliances, and the modern nation state.