history final study guide

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Final study guide

For the ID Terms, you must define all the terms AND identify its significance.

For the Short Answer Question, please write brief (about 2 paragraphs) responses to all questions

The long essay will require you to write a clear, well-organized essay in response to all of the questions listed below.

ID TERMS

  • Hoovervilles
  • Fireside chats
  • Glass-Steagall Act
  • Zoot suit riots
  • Executive Order 9066
  • FEPC
  • Double-V Campaign
  • Redlining
  • National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
  • Sputnik
  • The Kitchen Debate
  • The Lavender Scare
  • Christine Jorgensen
  • Emmett Till
  • “Mississippi Goddam”
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • 1968 Democratic National Convention
  • Roe v. Wade
  • War on Poverty
  • Tet Offensive
  • My Lai Massacre
  • “welfare queen”
  • “Star Wars”
  • ACT UP

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

  1. “The plan for an interstate highway system symbolized many of the dominant trends of the 1950s.” Explain this comment.
  2. In what ways were “traditional” gender roles reinforced during the 1950s and 60s? How were gender roles influenced by the drive to “contain” communism and other subversive threats?
  3. The ideas behind Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” drew from Roosevelt’s New Deal but also further expanded the vision of what role the national government should play in economic and social life. In what areas did the “Great Society” propose expanded roles for government, and why were Great Society proposals so controversial?
  4. Describe some of the battles over how to best remember the Vietnam War and honor its veterans. How were veterans portrayed in popular media during the 1970s and 1980s? Why did this depiction change?
  5. Develop some specific examples of how the new “conservative movement” under President Ronald Reagan administration tried to reshape American foreign policy, economic policy, and social and cultural issues?
  6. The AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s was particularly devastating for the gay community. How did authorities respond to the crisis, and what factors influenced that response? In addition, how did organizations like ACT UP advocate for AIDS patients, and what were some of the group’s successes?

ESSAY QUESTIONS

  1. “World War II highlighted discrimination within American life and also produced pressures for greater unity and accommodation.” Discuss this statement, showing that you understand how these conflicting trends fit together. (You could, for example, draw on examples related to the effects of “repatriation” of Mexican and Filipino laborers during the 1930s, patterns of wartime employment, urban tensions such as the zoot suit riots, interment of people of Japanese descent, the efforts of the Office of War Information, FEPC, and many, many more.)
  2. “The U.S. has gone through several waves of greater governmental activism—the Progressive Movement, the New Deal, LBJ’s Great Society. In what ways and why did the cases both for and against greater government activism change from 1900 to the rise of the New Right. In making your argument, be sure to explain the main changes in the role played by the federal government during each of these eras and the main arguments of those who opposed such changes.
  3. Throughout the 20th century, many Americans worked to eliminate barriers of opportunity based upon race, ethnicity, and gender. Discuss specific examples from several periods we have studied to discuss these efforts, the changes they caused, and the controversies they inspired.
  4. The New Deal represented a philosophy that envisioned a larger role for the national government in American life. What did the New Deal hope to accomplish and how did Roosevelt go about accomplishing those goals? (Be specific)
    1. In addition, the New Deal created institutions (the FDIC, Social Security, and the SEC for example) that remain at the core of our economic system. After evaluating the history of this period and thinking about our own time of economic difficulty, where would YOU draw lines of what the national government should and should not do in terms of regulation and social programs? (Hint: spend more time describing New Deal goals and policies than offering your own opinion of the New Deal and its legacy).

 
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