EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS

 
Final Exam

Long Essay Questions

-- Define the New Deal and explain how it affected farmers, workers, people with money,
creative people, women, foreign policy, and minority groups in the United States.

-- Compare and contrast World War I and World War II with each other at home
and abroad.  How were they similar, how different?

 -- Define the Cold War and explain its development from the end of World War II
to 1991, using specific examples where appropriate.  What were some diplomatic
problems that occurred?

-- Describe the growth, development, and results of the African-American Civil
Rights Movement from 1954 to 1980.

-- Why does the word "containment" sum up American life at home and American
policy abroad in the post-World War II period through the end of the 1950's? 

-- How does the phrase "breaking out" give an idea of what was happening in
America in the 1960's?


Short Essay Questions

-- Describe three New Deal programs that still affect American life
 today and how they changed American society in the 1930’s.

-- Describe three events of the Civil Rights Movement and how
 they helped change society.

-- Explain three ways the 1950’s was a time of containment. 

-- Explain three ways the 1960’s was a time of “breaking out.”

-- Explain two ways Korea and Vietnam were different and one way they
 were alike. 

-- Explain the immediate cause, the turning point, and one result of Vietnam. 

-- Explain three events that show the 1970’s to have been a decade of limits.


 

<>Second Exam

--Explain the diversity of Native American life in the West and discuss the major
themes and events in Native American history in the West in the last half of the 19th
century.  What occurred concerning Native Americans in the Progressive Era?

-- Explain the multiple frontiers of Western life in the last half of the 19th century. 
What happened to the West by 1900?

--  Define Populism, explain its causes and goals, what happened, and the results it
produced.  Was Populism a failure?  Why or why not?

-- What was American Imperialism, Phase II, what were its causes, and how was
it carried out in American foreign policy from the 1890's to the 1930's.  What
happened in the 1930's to begin to turn foreign policy away from imperialism?

-- What was Progressivism, what were its methods, and how did it manifest itself
in almost every area of life during the Progressive Era?

-- Compare and contrast Populism and Progressivism in as many ways as you can.

 


First Exam

--One way to organize history is using categories.  Explain the major political,
economic, and social events from the 1980’s to the present.  Then pick three
other categories we looked at, explain what they are, and the major events of
these decades that they contain.

-- Explain how one can organize the study of wars and apply this method to Gulf War I.
What do we see as the causes of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars?  Why is the Iraq War
seen as the second stage of the Gulf War?  Why is what we now know only tentative?

-- Another way to organize information is by themes.   Describe the "New South" in
1900--politically, socially, economically, and culturally--and explain how it came to
be that way. 

-- Explain what is meant by the system of segregation.  By 1900, this system was set
in place in the South for the next fifty years—how did this happen?  Who resisted it
and how?

-- Compare and contrast the 2nd Industrial Revolution and the 3rd Industrial Revolution
in terms of technology, business organization, sales, labor, and cultural ideas.

-- Define the 2nd Industrial Revolution and discuss the changes that occurred then
in terms of transportation and technology, business organization, sales, labor, and
cultural ideas.