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FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

HIST 1302

The exam is made up of short answer questions. Each question should be answered with a 2-5 sentence response. The material covered includes everything up to this point in the class.

You will only be confronted with five questions on the exam. You should make sure you look over all the documents you read and discussions you engaged in—as well as any and all feedback you received from me.

You will also want to make sure you can discuss any of the following (which are described in the Chapter readings):

1. Calvin Coolidge’s policies and goals as President, 1923-1929.

2. Major New Deal legislation such as the CCC, NIRA, SSA, AAA, TVA, etc.

3. The Washington Naval Conference and the policies to maintain world peace adopted in the 1920s.

4. The Truman Doctrine.

5. What Civil Rights legislation specifically did—like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

6. Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of the Soviet Union, perestroika and glasnost.

7. The various legislative landmarks of Lyndon Johnson’s legislative program “The Great Society.”

8. President Nixon’s strategy to get out of the Vietnam War known as “Peace with honor.”

9. The NAACP’s legal strategy against legal segregation and who developed it.

10. The ERA and why it failed.

11. Some of the reasons President Carter failed to be reelected in 1980.

12. What caused the Korean and Vietnam Wars and how they were related to each other.

13. Radical movements in the 1930s United States, like communism. Why were they growing in that period?