HIST 1312 1st Edition Final Exam Study Guide Long Essays 1 Woodrow Wilson arrived in Paris after the end of the war with ambitious plans for the peace negotiations How did the peace treaty fail to live up to his vision for the future Do you believe that World War II which erupted in Europe and Asia a bare two decades later could be traced primarily to the flawed peace after WWI or was it due mostly to factors that arose in the 1920s and 1930s Explain your position 2 The 1920s the decade often referred to as the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age was a time of strong economic growth for the United States What were the main factors contributing to the strong U S economy How did workers relationship to business capital change during this time period The stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic depression revealed the underlying weaknesses of the economy Discuss the crash of 1929 and its causes 3 The first three decades of the twentieth century ushered in an era of new immigration restriction laws Discuss the major immigration legislation passed in the United States during this time period What underlying assumptions about immigrants and about the nation lay behind the crafting of these pieces of legislation Do you think that the laws were successful in moving away from the idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants Why or why not 4 Discuss the changing role of women during WWII and the Cold War How were gender roles connected to issues of national security in both periods Do you believe the different roles for women in each period eventually contributed to the emergence of the women s liberation movement Why or why not 5 Why did the United States assign Vietnam such strategic importance during the Cold War What were the motives of the Vietnamese people who fought against the United States and were those motives well understood by the U S Explain the major turning points in the U S involvement in Vietnam In your considered opinion what has been the legacy of the Vietnam War in the United States 6 Both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations alluded to the Cold War in reference to the problem of racial discrimination in the United States Discuss the contexts of these interventions by the executive branch Furthermore consider the issue of Cold War politics in civil rights organizing In what ways did the context of the Cold War provide an entry point for African Americans afighting for equality and in what ways did Cold War politics limit African American civil rights organizing and desegregation efforts 7 Discuss the emergence of the various rights movements of the 1960s 1970s such as the African American civil rights movement the American Indian Movement and the women s liberation movement How did they change attitudes about race gender and inclusion in the U S How was the rise of the New Right a response to these movements Explain your position Short Essays 1 Explain the significance of Executive Order 9066 during World War II 2 Discuss one of the major pieces of legislation passed during the New Deal and explain its short term and long term significance 3 Explain the significance of the U S Supreme Court decision in 1954 Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Kansas What were its promises as well as its limitations 4 Who was Emmett Till and why is his death considered by many to be the catalyst for the African American civil rights movement 5 Explain the significance of the occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes in 1969 6 Who was Jerry Falwell and what was the significance of the organization he founded the Moral Majority 7 Discuss Ella Baker and the ways she shaped the African American civil rights movement Long Essays 1 Chapter 20 Empire and Wars Wilson and American Foreign Policy Diplomacy and War Making the World Safe for Democracy Fighting the War at Home Government by Commission Winning Hearts and Minds Waging Peace The Failure of Ratification Chapter 23 World War 2 The Road to War The Growing crisis in Europe The United States enters the War Global War War in Europe War in the Pacific 2 Chapter 21 An Anxious Affluence People of Plenty Government Promotion of the Economy Americans become Consumers Perilous Prosperity Changes to Social Conventions Breaking with the old Morality Politics and the Fading of Prosperity Financial Crash 3 Chapter 18 Cities Immigrants and the Nation A new Wave of Immigrants Immigrants Arrive From Many Lands Creating immigrant communities Hostility toward recent immigrants Chapter 19 Progressivism and the Search for Order Morality and Social Control Immigration Restriction 4 Chapter 23 World War 2 The Home Front Economy Managing the wartime economy New opportunities for women Everyday life on the home front 5 Chapter 25 Troubled Innocence The Eisenhower Era Cold war interventions Early U S intervention in Vietnam Chapter 27 The Conservative Ascendancy The failure of Vietnamization Cold war realism and the D tente 6 Chapter 25 Troubled Innocence The Eisenhower Era Modern republicanism Eisenhower and the cold war Cold war interventions Early U S intervention in Vietnam The Election of 1960 Cold war Politics and Culture 7 Chapter 25 Troubled Innocence The Civil Rights Movement Chapter 26 The Liberal Consensus and its Challengers Civil Rights Challenges to the Liberal Center Movements on the left Women s Liberation Power to the People Short Essays 1 Chapter 23 World War 2 Introduction American Histories 2 Chapter 22 Depression Dissent and the New Deal The New Deal 3 4 5 Chapter 25 Troubled Innocence The Civil Rights Movement Freshwater Road Chapter 26 The Liberal Consensus and its Challengers Challenges to the Liberal Center Power to the People 6 Chapter 27 The Conservative Ascendancy The Conservative Political Ascendancy The New Right Revival 7 Chapter 25 Troubled Innocence The Civil Right Movement