Final Examination

Summer II, 2007

READ THIS FIRST!.......At the time of the exam you must bring a small GREEN Scantron to class. You will not be allowed to have anything on your desk except the test booklet, the Scantron, pencils and erasers. Anything and everything else must be completely out of sight under your desk - preferably in your backpack. Absolutely no cell phones or iPods are allowed. bury them deep in your backpacks/purses or leave them at home. There is no reason any papers of any kind should be in evidence, so make sure those that you have are secure from anyone's eyes, especially yours and MINE!

Any academic dishonesty observed will be dealt with swiftly and severely. If I or my proctors observe such activity, the offender's test will be immediately picked up and the offender will be referred to the Dean of Students for University disciplinary action. There will be no exceptions here!

Study Guide

For the multiple choice section study the following terms, relating each to the textbook and my lectures. Each term is designed to direct you to the most appropriate answer to the question to which it relates. The multiple choice portion of the test itself will follow the order of this guide, i.e., SG item no. 1 will relate to question no. 1 on the exam and so on. A thorough reading of the textbook and good note-taking is essential to success.

1.     Know Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression

2.     Know which Roosevelt proposal of 1937 aroused tremendous public resistance

3.    Know what the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 did

4.     Know what 'buying on margin" meant

5.     Know the declarative elements of the Atlantic Charter

6.     Know what the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1936 did

7.     Know what the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was

8.     Know the platform of the America First Committee

9.     Know the basic elements of the Truman Doctrine

10.    Identify the 1949 military and political alliance linking Western European nations with the U.S.

11.    Know what Bernard Baruch's plan for limiting atomic power included

12.    Be able to discuss president Truman's loyalty program

13.    Know what Eisenhower's "New Look" program argued

14.    Know what Kennedy's theory of "flexible response" advocated

15.    Know what economist John Kenneth Galbraith asserted

16.    Know what JFK's foreign policy included

17.    Be able to identify the elements of the Great Society agenda

18.    Know what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did

19.    From your reading of the textbook, know what Nixon's role in Watergate was

20.    Know what Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did

21.    Know what labor leader organized many agricultural laborers into the United Farm Workers

22.    Know what came about under the Immigration Act of 1965

23.    Know what Affirmative Action programs did

24.    Know what the Refugee Act of 1980 did

25.    Know what the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 did

26.    Know who the Soviet Union invaded in 1979

27.    Know what act/organization/alliance/fund/agreement created the largest free-market zone in the world

28.    Know why Jimmy Carter appealed to voters

29.    Be familiar with the elements of the Iran-Contra affair

30.    Be able to discuss the elements of the "Bush Doctrine" (George W., not George H.W.)

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Identification Section: Study the following terms. At the time of the exam, you will be required to address two of them in terms of Who,  What, Where, When and – most important – Why. The “why” (historical significance of the item) is worth 50% of the total grade for each answer. Why means, "why do historians care?" What contributions/actions did the person, place or thing make that was significant to contemporaries and/or future generations. Be very thorough here! Value = 10 points each.

 DO NOT ASSUME THE PROFESSOR OR THE TA KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE FOLLOWING SO THAT WE MIGHT MAKE INFERENCES ABOUT YOUR ANSWERS..."WELL, PROFESSOR, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT" - NO, WE DON'T. TELL US EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN IN YOUR THOROUGH IDENTIFICATION ANSWER.

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Marian Anderson

Atlantic Charter

George Frost Kennan

NSC-68

Alliance for Progress

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Miranda v. Arizona

Immigration Reform and Control Act, 1986

Iran–Contra Affair

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Essay: Study the following questions. At the time for the exam you will be required to address one of them. Value = 20 points.

DO NOT ASSUME THE PROFESSOR OR THE TA KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE FOLLOWING SO THAT WE MIGHT MAKE INFERENCES ABOUT YOUR ANSWERS..."WELL, PROFESSOR, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT" - NO, WE DON'T. TELL US EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN IN YOUR THOROUGH ESSAY.

1.         Compare and contrast the First and Second New Deals. Which had more far-reaching success? Why?

2.         What were the economic, political, and social causes of the Cold War? How did the U.S. and the USSR go from being allies to enemies?

3.         Examine Johnson’s Vietnam policy. Explain why he took the steps he did in the war. Was his policy successful? Why or Why not?

4.         Why is Reagan’s presidency so controversial to party partisans? What were his greatest triumphs? His greatest disappointments?