HIST 15B STUDY GUIDE / SPRING 2013
The final exam will contain 52 multiple choice questions, for a total 104 points, as well as three id’s worth 15 points each. The final exam will total 150 points, and everyone will get one free point. There is a list of terms for the multiple choice and identification questions at the end of this guide.
HISTORY EXAMS ARE CLOSED BOOK. I will allow you to bring one page (8.5” by 11”) of handwritten notes to each exam. These notes must be handwritten—they cannot contain any material that is printed. You may NOT refer to any books, electronic devices, anyone else’s notes, or anything typed, printed, word-processed, or photocopied during History exams. I may inspect your notes during the History exams, and I will confiscate any unauthorized materials with possible penalties for cheating (see syllabus under “Academic Integrity”).
WHAT TO BRING TO HISTORY EXAMS
1. Bring a T&E 200 Scantron-type answer sheet and a blue book (usually green!). These are available for purchase in the Spartan Bookstore. DO NOT BRING ANY OTHER KIND OF ANSWER SHEET. T&E 200 answer sheets are the big blue ones (8” x 11”), NOT the little green slips.
2. Bring a #2 pencil to fill in bubbles on your T&E 200 answer sheet. Make sure that your pencil is sharp and has a good eraser, or else bring a separate eraser. If you must erase during the exam, erase completely so that only one bubble per answer is marked.
3. Bring a blue/green book for the id’s. This can be small or large. The size does not matter.
WHAT TO DO DURING HISTORY EXAMS
1. Arrive on time, sit quietly, and do not talk to anyone during exams. Go to the bathroom BEFORE the exam so that you do not bother other students by leaving the room. Do NOT leave the room without permission once the exam has begun. If you do get permission to leave the classroom, you may not take your phone with you.
2. Make your calls and check your messages BEFORE the exam. Then TURN OFF your cell phone, computer, and all other electronic devices. Put your devices away where you cannot see, hear, or access them in any way. I will be monitoring the classroom and cheating will be penalized (see syllabus).
3. Write your name at the top of your T&E 200 answer sheet LAST NAME FIRST. Leave a space between your last name and your first name. Darken the corresponding bubbles under each letter of your name. In the space above your name write “Midterm Exam” or “Final Exam” as directed.
4. When you get your copy of a History exam, write your name on the exam in the space provided where it says “WRITE YOUR NAME HERE.” Yes, you may write on the exam itself—but you will only be graded on the darkened bubbles on your T&E 200 answer sheet.
5. Read each question carefully. Choose the ONE BEST ANSWER for every question. Every question has one answer that is always better (i.e., MORE correct) than the other answers. Choose the one best answer based strictly on the readings and lectures for this class, not any other source, and darken the corresponding bubble on your T&E 200 answer sheet.
6. Answer every question and leave none blank. Your exam score for the multiple choice questions is your number of correct answers times 2. Blank answers are worth ZERO. There is no deduction for wrong answers. Guess if you are uncertain. If you can eliminate some answers as definitely wrong, you improve your odds. NEVER LEAVE BLANKS!
7. You may freely consult one page (back and front) of your own handwritten notes during the exam.
8. Write your name on the outside of the blue book in the space marked for your name and information. Use the blue book to write answers for the three id’s. Make sure you identify the term. In addition, you need to explain the significance of the term.
9. Use all of your available time. Most students are done in an hour or less but there is no bonus for completing exams quickly. You have 75 minutes for each exam and you should use all of that time to get the answers right. If you are late to an exam, you will receive no extra time, so DON’T BE LATE! Both exams will end promptly at 4:15 PM. If you miss an exam, see the syllabus for policies regarding makeup exams.
10. When you are finished, if time permits, check your answers again. Make sure that no question is left blank and that none has more than one answer marked. Turn in your copy of the exam and your filled-in T&E 200 answer sheet and blue book to Prof. Hilde at the front of the room. Then you may leave the room quietly. DO NOT TAKE THE EXAM WITH YOU. Leaving the room with a copy of an exam, or any image or record of an exam, or transmitting any information about an exam to anyone else in any way, is strictly forbidden and constitutes cheating. See the syllabus regarding “Academic Integrity.”
11. Your score represents your number of correct answers times 2 plus the three id scores (each one is worth a maximum of 15 points). Consult your syllabus if you want to know how your exam scores “count” in your course grade, or what exam score you “need” to “get” a certain grade in the course. These questions require simple math that you can do for yourself.
12. There is no time in class to go over exams in detail. If you want to know which questions you missed on any exam and how to improve your scores, come to my office hours or make an appointment.
Multiple Choice Terms:
The Casablanca Conference
The Battle of the Coral Sea
Fair Employment Practices Commission
The Bracero Program
The “Zoot Suit” Riots
The Fire Bombing of Dresden
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Iwo Jima
Kamikazes
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
Berlin
NATO
NSC-68
The Korean War
HUAC
Jonas Salk
Sputnik
The Apollo Program
William Levitt
Jack Kerouac and the Beats
Massive Resistance
Eisenhower and the Federal Highway Act of 1956
John Foster Dulles
The military industrial complex
The Great Society and the War on Poverty
The Immigration Act of 1965
SNCC
CORE
Freedom Rides
Medgar Evers
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Voting Rights Act
George Wallace
Black Power and The Black Panther Party
Malcolm X
The Bay of Pigs
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Fulbright Hearings
Students for a Democratic Society
The Free Speech Movement
Termination
American Indian Movement
The Stonewall Riot
La RazaUnida
Betty Friedan
National Organization of Women
The Equal Rights Amendment
The Environmental Protection Agency
Nixon and “Vietnamization”
The Tet Offensive
The Nixon Doctrine
Engel v. Vitale
Miranda v. Arizona
Jimmy Carter
Stagflation
OPEC
The Iranian Hostage Crisis
The Religious Right
Proposition 13
Supply-Side Economics
The Reagan Revolution
Glasnost
Perestroika
Tiananmen Square
Iran-Contra
The Gulf War
Identification Terms: Six of these terms will appear on the exam, and you must write a response for three of them. Please use complete sentences and relevant detail and make sure you discuss the significance of the term.
The Allies and the Holocaust
D-Day
The Manhattan Project
The Yalta Conference
Containment
McCarthyism
Japanese Internment
Brown v. Board of Education
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cesar Chavez
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The My Lai Massacre
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Watergate
Mikhail Gorbachev