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
38th Parallel
Rosenbergs
Fallout Shelters
U2 Incident
Sputnik
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
HUAC
McCarthyism
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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