2112 Online Lecture Notes

Please print off a copy of the notes found at the following sites. We will use them as to complement your text while discussing the 1920s and early 1930s.

The Politics of Frustration: The 1920s

The Politics of Prohibition: The 1920s

Crashing Hopes: The Great Depresion

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.

2112 Political Compass Test

2112 WWI Resources

Check out this incredible site with a multitude of resources and special topics on WWI. Included are propaganda posters, songs, pictures, diaries, newspapers, and secondary accounts of important battles, generals, heroes, and the war's timeline. View some of the propaganda from a World History perspective not just an American perspective. The picture above is from the Battle of Verdun.

The Site is linked to the entry title.

Chapter Analysis Rubric

Here is the exact rubric I will use in grading your chapter/article analysis.


_______ /10 1. What is the specific topic of the book or article? What overall purpose does it seem to have? For what readership is it written?

_______ /10 2. Does the author state an explicit thesis? Does he or she noticeably have an axe to grind? What is the purpose?

_______ /10 3. What exactly does the work contribute to the overall topic of your course? What general problems and concepts in your discipline and course does it engage?

_______ /10 4. What kinds of material does the work present? What types of sources and evidence is used?

_______ /15 5. Does the material/evidence used support the overall arguments? How so? Or how not? Explain and give examples.

_______ /10 6. Are there alternative ways of arguing from the same material? Does the author show awareness of them? Is there bias?

_______/10 7. What theoretical issues and topics for further discussion does the work raise? In other words, how does this fit into the bigger historical context?

_______ /10 8. What are your own reactions and considered opinions regarding the work? Do you “buy” the author’s argument(s)? What are the articles strengths and weaknesses?

_______ /15 9. Analysis writing style: proper punctuation, spelling, capitalization, grammar, sentence and paragraph structure


_______/100 = TOTAL GRADE

2112 Maymester Midterm Study Guide

Identifications:
Remember to describe the term/concept but also include its importance and historical significance.

1. American Exceptionalism
2. Lincoln’s Assassination
3. Lincoln’s 10% plan
4. Radical Republicans, Thaddeus Stevens, and the Wade Davis Bill
5. Andrew Johnson
6. Freedmen’s Bureau and O.O. Howard
7. Black Codes
8. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
9. 13th Amendment
10. 14th Amendment
11. 15th Amendment
12. Reconstruction Act of 1867
13. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
14. African Americans in a Reconstruction Era Government
15. The Grant Administration
16. Panic of 1873
17. Election of 1872 and Horace Greeley
18. Election of 1876 and Rutherford B. Hayes
19. Compromise of 1877 and the legacy of Reconstruction
20. Gilded Age
21. Political Machines, Government, and Immigration
22. Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
23. Uncharismatic presidents
24. Kickbacks and Sandbagging
25. Immigrant groups
26. Yankee Ingenuity and Inventions
27. Telephone and Hello Girls
28. U.S. takes the Industrial lead
29. Thomas Edison
30. Railroad Revolution, time zones, gauges, laborers, Transcontinental line
31. Pirates of the Rails (Vanderbilt, Gould)
32. Carnegie and U.S. Steel
33. J.P. Morgan and banking
34. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
35. Corporations, Monopolies, Horizontal/Vertical Integration, and the law
36. Big Business: Promotion of Capitalism or Threat to Democracy?
37. Big Businessmen and Distribution of Wealth
38. Grangers and Granger Laws
39. I.C.C. and Sherman Anti-Trust Act
40. Haymarket Square Riot
41. Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth, and Gospel of Success
42. Horatio Alger
43. Philanthropy and Conspicuous Consumption
44. Women and Children in the work force
45. Urbanization
46. Working Conditions
47. Labor Organization: AFL, Molly Maguires, Knights of Labor
48. Strikes and violence
49. Industrialization and Immigration
50. Chinese Exclusion Act
51. Melting Pot or Tossed Salad effect
52. Public Transportation
53. Jane Addams, the Hull House, and Settlement Houses
54. Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and skyscrapers
55. Brooklyn Bridge- Construction, Symbolism, and Practical realities
56. Evils of the City: Health, Sanitation, Vice, and Crime
57. Dumbbell Tenements
58. Destruction of Indian culture, livestock and the end of the Open Plains
59. Custer’s Last Stand and the Battle of Little Big Horn
60. Geronimo
61. Century of Dishonor
62. Dawes Severalty Act (1887) Carlisle School, and effect of assimilation
63. Battle of Would Knee, Chief Joseph, and the end of Indian Resistance
64. The Wild Wild West- myths, heroes, and mining
65. Hard Times for farmers
66. The money issue: Goldbugs, Silverites, and Greenbacks
67. The Populist Party and hopes for political reform
68. William Jennings Bryan and “The Cross of Gold”
69. Imperialism
70. Progressive Movement
71. Imperialist and Anti-Imperialist arguments
72. Seward’s Ice Box
73. Spanish American War
74. Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
75. Cuba and the Platt Amendment
76. Yellow Journalism
77. Hawaii, Queen Lily, Sanford B. Dole, and annexation
78. Philippine Insurrection
79. Policies and event in China
80. Acquisition of the canal zone, and building of the Panama Canal
81. Big Stick Diplomacy
82. Mass entertainment, sports, and new issues of health and hygiene
83. Participants of Progressive America and causes of the reform movement
84. Government involvement, public awareness, media attention of exploitative practices and unacceptable conditions
85. Muckrakers (Riis, Sinclair, Tarbell, etc.)
86. The Jungle
87. Bob La Follette
88. Labor Unions and the Wobblies
89. Eugene Debs for president
90. Women’s causes and the Suffragette movement
91. Teddy the Trustbuster? Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt

Possible Discussion Questions:

The following are possible discussion questions for the first exam in American History II. Remember that a five paragraph response is not mandatory, but more than one paragraph may be needed to fully answer the question. Complete sentences, capitalization, and punctuation are a must. Also remember to answer the question using specific evidence to back up your overall answer. Good sources for specific information/evidence can be found in your text, your notes, and the identification list.

1. Was reconstruction a success or a failure? Use specific evidence to back up your answer.

2. How does the Gilded Age reflect the contradictions represented by the concept of American Exceptionalism?

3. Describe changes that the Industrial Revolution and immigration brought to Northern urban centers.

4. Explain U.S. military/political policy toward native americans (1865-1900) and the results of such policies on Native Americans.

5. Why are the multi-millionaires and political bosses more well known than our presidents from Johnson to McKinley?

6. How did big businessmen create monopolies? Give examples of actual monopolies to explain your answer?

7. Compare life for former slaves 1865-1877 and compare it with post Reconstruction.

8. How did technology and transportation change American life at the turn of the century? How did it affect farmers specifically?

9. Analyze the myth and reality of the Wild Wild West.

10. What led to American imperialism and what factors were involved in the creation of an American "empire" ?

11. Explain the goals and outcomes of the Progressive movement.

12. Analyze the changing role of journalism. Include both positive and negative influences on society based on overall nonexistent standards of reliability as well as investigative journalism. Give specific examples to support your answer.

13. Explain the roles of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson in the Progressive movement.

2112 Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis's book How the Other Half Lives gives present and past audiences a glimpse into the world of working class realities as America urbanized and industrialized in the late 19th and early 20th century. Try to place his primary source work into the historical context of the Gilded/Progressive Era. To look at the contents of the source (his book) go to:

http://www.authentichistory.com/postcivilwar/riis/contents.html

It is worth a look, and you should explore a couple of chapters. They are short and descriptive. Click on Contents and then select chapters that sounds intriguing. His writings serve as an interesting look at urban conditions, industrialization, and the role of media/print journalism.

In addition, this site also has pictures and illustrations embedded in the page so that you can see the images that correlate with each chapter. This is one of the few sites whereby you can read and see the images- as well as double click on the image to see it larger and in full view.

2112 Primary Source

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pfbrooklynbridge.htm

The above is the link to your primary source for your primary source analysis due Friday by email by 5 p.m. Remember your analysis should be typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 1 inch margins, and 2-3 pages.

Primary Source Questions

• Who created the source and why? Was it created through a spur-of-the-moment act, a routine transaction, or a thoughtful, deliberate process?
• Did the recorder have firsthand knowledge of the event? Or, did the recorder report what others saw and heard?
• Was the recorder a neutral party, or did the creator have opinions or interests that might have influenced what was recorded?
• Did the recorder produce the source for personal use, for one or more individuals, or for a large audience?
• Was the source meant to be public or private?
• What are the major points of interest?
• Did the recorder wish to inform or persuade others? (Check the words in the source. The words may tell you whether the recorder was trying to be objective or persuasive.) Did the recorder have reasons to be honest or dishonest?
• Can you summarize or encapsulate the source in 3 sentences without leaving out major points of interest?
• Was the information recorded during the event, immediately after the event, or after some lapse of time? How large a lapse of time?
• Why is this source important, and what larger themes does it reflect?