Analyze the early Cold War years and explain the emergence of the two major superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union

Part 1: Multiple-Choice (90 points). 36 of the 72 key terms below will appear on the exam as multiple-

choice questions. Each question is worth 2.5 points. You are allotted 45 minutes to complete Part 1.

Fireside Chats

New Deal

FDIC

TVA

CCC

WPA

NLRA

Social Security Act

Policy of Appeasement

Battle of Britain

Lend-Lease Act

Pearl Harbor

Rosie the Riveter

Executive Order 9066

Zoot Suit Riots

Tuskegee Airmen

Battle of Stalingrad

Holocaust

D-Day

Battle of the Bulge

Battle of Midway

Manhattan Project

Hiroshima

Marshall Plan

 

 

Truman Doctrine

NSC-68

Berlin Airlift

NATO

Korean War

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Joseph McCarthy

G.I. Bill

Levittown

Emmett Till

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Little Rock Nine

Greensboro Sit-Ins

Freedom Rides

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Malcolm X

Great Society

Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965

Students for a Democratic Society

Betty Friedan

Rachel Carson

César Chávez

Dolores Huerta

American Indian Movement

Stonewall Riots

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Tet Offensive

Vietnamization

My Lai Massacre

Pentagon Papers

“Peace with Honor”

Watergate

Iran Hostage Crisis

AIDS Crisis

Immigration Reform and Control Act, 1986

Iran-Contra Affair

Fall of Berlin Wall

Persian Gulf War

NAFTA

9/11

Iraq War

Great Recession

Black Lives Matter Movement

Part 2: Long Essay (110 points). TWO of the following four essay prompts will appear on the exam. You

must respond to ONE of two essay prompts stated on the exam. Provide a typed response of approximately

6-7 paragraphs. Type your essay in paragraph form with complete sentences, in the answer box given on the

exam. Your essay will be graded as a timed exam. You will have 75 minutes to complete Part 2.

 

 

 

 

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A. What were the causes of World War II? Explain how and why the United States got involved in the war.

Discuss the U.S. home front. How did women and minorities respond to the war? Explain the war in North

Africa and Europe. Discuss the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. What was Adolf Hitler’s

“final solution,” and what were the consequences of the Holocaust? How did the Allies end the war in

Europe? Discuss the war in the Pacific. What proved to be an effective U.S. strategy in the Pacific? Analyze

Harry Truman’s controversial decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. What were the consequences of

World War II?

 

B. Analyze the early Cold War years and explain the emergence of the two major superpowers, the United

States and Soviet Union. What was the Truman Doctrine? Analyze the Cold War in Europe. How was

Germany and the rest of Europe divided? What was the Berlin Airlift? Analyze the proxy wars between

Communist and anti-Communist forces in Latin America. What was the Cuban Missiles Crisis, and how

was it resolved? Explain the Cold War in Asia. How did U.S policymakers respond to the Communist

victory in China? How did the United States become involve in the Korean War, and what were the

consequences?

 

C. Analyze the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. What progress did the movement make in

the U.S. Supreme Court? How did southern segregationists react to the Court’s decisions? Who was

Emmett Till, and what happened to him? Explain the Montgomery Bus Boycott and its impact. What style

of protest did Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) and civil rights activists practice? How did college students

become engage in the movement? Who were the Freedom Riders? How did Civil Rights activists advocate

for voting rights and address social and economic inequities in the United States? What is the legacy of the

Civil Rights Movement?

 

D. Explain the rise of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Communists. Why did the U.S. support French

colonialism in Southeast Asia? How were the French defeated? Discuss the 1954 Geneva Accords. Why

did U.S. policymakers support Ngo Dinh Diem and South Vietnam? What was the Gulf of Tonkin

Resolution? Analyze Lyndon B. Johnson’s Policy of Escalation. What was the historical significance

behind the Tet Offensive? What was Richard Nixon’s Vietnamization Policy? How did the United States

expand the war? What was “peace with honor?” What were the consequences of the Vietnam War?