History 475B - Final Exam Study Guide
Identifications (40%):
You will have to identify and explain the significance of 4 out of 7 of these terms. For each item you choose, begin by identifying the item, explaining who or what it is, stating when and where it was important. Then explain its historical significance. In other words, why is this item important to our study of Cold War America? Why does it matter? (4-5 sentences)
Bandung Conference
Native American Internationalism
Termination Program & Relocation
Elvis Presley
Demanding Childcare
Lanham Act
Mary Young
“Rock Around the Clock”
Main Street, USA
Paul Robeson & “The Lost Shepard”
Pro-Western Alliances
CPACC
1954 Emergency Conference
National Congress of American Indians
Bay of Pigs
Robert McNamera
Fidel Castro
Ngo Dinh Diem
SEATO & Manila Pact
Executive Order 9981
President’s Commission on Civil Rights
The Beat Generation
National Security
McLaurin v. Oklahoma
The Jones Family Centerville USA
Women’s Political Council
Montgomery Improvement Association
Claudette Colvin
Recy Taylor Case (1944)
Respectability
20 Yrs. Tilling the Ground (45)
“Armed-Self Reliance”
Sit Ins
White Man’s Economic Artillery (98)
Politics of Silence (120)
Rolling Churches (97)
Senate Subcommittee to Investigate
Juvenile Delinquency
Jambassadors & “Double Edge Sword”
Dean Acheson & White Man’s Burden
Answer one question (60%):
I am looking for a clear, well-reasoned response rather than a list of facts. A successful essay will have an introduction, a thesis statement, and a conclusion. It will proceed coherently. It will cite specific, pertinent evidence from the lectures, readings, and films. It will make clear connections between the evidence and the thesis statement. **Do Not Forget to Attach dates to your evidence.**
1. Historians have traditionally referred to Cold War America as an era defined by conservatism and constraints. While there is no denying the conservatism of the postwar era, how would you revise this original thesis? Now that you have spent 4 months studying postwar America, how would you define the period from World War II to the mid-1960s?
2. By 1963 the consensus culture of the postwar era had begun to come apart as a rights revolution and the war in Vietnam challenged the ideas and assumptions held by most Americans since 1945. Trace the roots of the social protests of the 1960s (looking in particular at students, racial/ethnic equality, and women) in the happy and prosperous 1950s. In other words, identify and analyze the undercurrents of change in this era of consensus.