American Studies

Final Exam Review Guide

Final ExamFriday June 12, 2012

7:45-9:45

• Where-

• What to Bring– #2 Pencils (at least 2)– Pen (for essay)– Bottle of Water– Quiet Snack

What does the Exam look like?

• Questions 1-60 = American History from Chapter 13 (WWII) to Chapter 21.2 (Nixon and Watergate)/Political Spectrum

• Questions 61-130 = American Literature from A Separate Peace to Things they Carried, & Grammar

• Questions 131-160= American History Visual section (from Chapter 13 to 21)

• Short Reading & Comprehension questions section

• Essay

WWIIChapter 13 & 14

Treaty of Versailles

War Guilt Clause

Adolf Hitler background

Appeasement

Maginot Line

Dunkirk

The Blitz

Molotov-Ribbentrop

“stab in the back”

Pearl Harbor

Lebensraum

Operation Barbarosa

Enola Gay

Doolittle Raid

“Collective Guilt”

WWII The Home FrontChapter 13 & 14

• Key Terms Gold Star MothersRosie the RiveterRationingVictory GardensAir Raid WardenOffice of War InformationWar BondsExecutive Order 9066“Fifth Column”“A Jap's a Jap. The only good one is a

dead one!”Korematsu v. US caseTotal WarGuernicaThe BlitzKamikazeBataan Death MarchManhattan ProjectHiroshima & Nagasaki

The Cold WarChapter 15

• Key Terms & IdeasCold WarThe Big ThreeYalta & Potsdam AgreementsContainmentTruman DoctrineMarshall Plan“Iron Curtain”Berlin AirliftNATOWarsaw PactRed ChinaKorean War38th ParallelRosenbergsFallout SheltersU2 IncidentSputnikBay of PigsCuban Missile CrisisHUACMcCarthyismAlger HissHollywood Ten

The FiftiesChapter 16

• Key Terms & IdeasGI Bill of RightsConsumerismConformityNational Highway Act of 1956Levittown“Little Boxes”Baby BoomMichael Harrington’s, The Other

AmericaElection of 1948"To Err is Truman"Truman, Dewey, Thurmond, WallaceEisenhower’s candidacyCheckers Speech“We Like Ike”Eisenhower’s Farewell AddressKennedy/Nixon Debates

The Civil Rights MovementChapter 18

• Key Terms and IdeasPlessy v FergusonJim Crow Laws“Separate but Equal”Brown v Board of EducationRosa ParksMontgomery Bus BoycottDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Little Rock NineGreensboro Sit-inSNCC/ Jail Not BailFreedom RidersLetter from a Birmingham Jail

Justice delayed is justice denied.

March on WashingtonI have a dream speechCivil Rights Act of 1965Black PowerMalcolm X & Nation of IslamMountaintop SpeechJames Earl Ray

The SixtiesChapter 17 & 20

• Key Terms & IdeasJFK inaugural address“Ask not what …”New FrontierPeace CorpsCamelotAssassination in DallasLee Harvey OswaldMagic BulletWarren CommissionLBJ & Great SocietyThe TreatmentMichael Harrington’s The Other AmericaWarren CourtGideon v WainwrightMiranda v ArizonaBetty Friedan’s The Feminine MystiqueRoe v WadeEqual Rights AmendmentPhyllis SchlaflyElection of 1964Barry Goldwater & Daisy AdCounter CultureThe EstablishmentHippiesHaight-AshburyWoodstockAndy Warhol

Vietnam Era Chapter 19

• Key Terms and IdeasDien Bien PhuNgo Dinh DiemViet CongHo Chi MinhJFK & Green BeretGulf of Tonkin Resolution“search and destroy”Tet OffensivePresidential Race of 1968“Be clean for Gene”Democratic Convention in ChicagoGeorge WallaceChicago 8Richard Nixon & “Law & Order”Free Speech MovementSDS & Port Hudson StatementWeather UndergroundThe Draft, Deferment, Conscientious

ObjectorHawks v DovesMy Lai MassacreSilent MajorityInvasion of CambodiaKent StateMaya Lin & Vietnam Memorial

The Nixon Years Chapter 21

• Key Terms & Ideas• The Hard HatsThe Silent MajorityNixon DoctrineVietnamizationDétentePentagon PapersThe PlumbersThe Fall of SaigonRealpolitikSALT Enemies ListCREEPWatergateSaturday Night MassacreThe TapesFord pardoning

Ford and Carter• Key Terms and Ideas• Gerald Ford Presidency• State of the Nation as Ford took office• Ford pardon (Nixon)• “full, free, and absolute pardon”• “Long national nightmare…”• Public view of Ford• OPEC Embargo of 1973• Jimmy Carter’s Presidency• Love Canal• Three Mile Island• Camp David Accord• Iran Hostage Crisis• Malaise Speech

Political Spectrum• Left Winged• Liberal• Democratic

Party• Some Gov.

control over economy

• Little Gov. control over social issues

• Pro choice, pro women’s liberation, pro Civil Rights Movement, pro “Little Guy”

• Truman, JFK, LBJ, RFK, MLK, Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, Great Society

• Right Winged• Conservative• Republican

Party• Economically

Laissez-faire• Some Gov.

control over social issues

• Anti-abortion, pro military, pro traditional family & values, pro big business, low taxes, small gov.

• Eisenhower, Goldwater, Silent Majority, Nixon, Agnew, Reagan

• Extreme Left Wing

• Communist

– Violent

• Socialists

– Democratic

• Gov. Total Economic Control

• No Gov. control over social issues (theoretically)

• Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Hollywood Ten, Weathermen, SDS, Vietcong, Port Hudson Statement, Anti Vietnam War

• Extreme Right Winged

• Reactionary• Economically

laissez-faire• Little to no

Gov. control over economy

• Totalitarian over social issues

• KKK, The Machine (according to SDS), HUAC, McCarthyism