American Studies Final Exam Review Guide Final Exam

American Studies Final Exam Review Guide

Final Exam Friday 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

WWII Chapter 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 Front Chapter 13 & 14 • Key Terms Gold Star Mothers Rosie the Riveter Rationing Victory Gardens Air Raid Warden Office of War Information War Bonds Executive Order 9066 “Fifth Column” “A Jap's a Jap. The only good one is a dead one!” Korematsu v. US case Total War Guernica The Blitz Kamikaze Bataan Death March Manhattan Project Hiroshima & Nagasaki

The Cold War Chapter 15 • Key Terms & Ideas Cold War The Big Three Yalta & Potsdam Agreements Containment Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan “Iron Curtain” Berlin Airlift NATO Warsaw Pact Red China Korean War 38 th Parallel Rosenbergs Fallout Shelters U 2 Incident Sputnik Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis HUAC Mc. Carthyism Alger Hiss Hollywood Ten

The Fifties Chapter 16 • Key Terms & Ideas GI Bill of Rights Consumerism Conformity National Highway Act of 1956 Levittown “Little Boxes” Baby Boom Michael Harrington’s, The Other America Election of 1948 "To Err is Truman" Truman, Dewey, Thurmond, Wallace Eisenhower’s candidacy Checkers Speech “We Like Ike” Eisenhower’s Farewell Address Kennedy/Nixon Debates

The Civil Rights Movement Chapter 18 • Key Terms and Ideas Plessy v Ferguson Jim Crow Laws “Separate but Equal” Brown v Board of Education Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Little Rock Nine Greensboro Sit-in SNCC/ Jail Not Bail Freedom Riders Letter from a Birmingham Jail Justice delayed is justice denied. March on Washington I have a dream speech Civil Rights Act of 1965 Black Power Malcolm X & Nation of Islam Mountaintop Speech James Earl Ray

The Sixties Chapter 17 & 20 • Key Terms & Ideas JFK inaugural address “Ask not what …” New Frontier Peace Corps Camelot Assassination in Dallas Lee Harvey Oswald Magic Bullet Warren Commission LBJ & Great Society The Treatment Michael Harrington’s The Other America Warren Court Gideon v Wainwright Miranda v Arizona Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique Roe v Wade Equal Rights Amendment Phyllis Schlafly Election of 1964 Barry Goldwater & Daisy Ad Counter Culture The Establishment Hippies Haight-Ashbury Woodstock Andy Warhol

Vietnam Era Chapter 19 • Key Terms and Ideas Dien Bien Phu Ngo Dinh Diem Viet Cong Ho Chi Minh JFK & Green Beret Gulf of Tonkin Resolution “search and destroy” Tet Offensive Presidential Race of 1968 “Be clean for Gene” Democratic Convention in Chicago George Wallace Chicago 8 Richard Nixon & “Law & Order” Free Speech Movement SDS & Port Hudson Statement Weather Underground The Draft, Deferment, Conscientious Objector Hawks v Doves My Lai Massacre Silent Majority Invasion of Cambodia Kent State Maya Lin & Vietnam Memorial

The Nixon Years Chapter 21 • Key Terms & Ideas • The Hard Hats The Silent Majority Nixon Doctrine Vietnamization Détente Pentagon Papers The Plumbers The Fall of Saigon Realpolitik SALT Enemies List CREEP Watergate Saturday Night Massacre The Tapes Ford 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 • • • 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 • • 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 Mc. Carthy, 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 Right Winged Reactionary Economically laissez-faire Little to no Gov. control over economy Totalitarian over social issues KKK, The Machine (according to SDS), HUAC, Mc. Carthyism