Modern U.S. History
Identifications: 12 of these terms will appear on the test and you will have to answer any 10- you may omit any 2 on the exam...
1) Vietnam War
2) Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
3) Civil Rights Act of 1964
4) McCarthyism
5) Military-Industrial Complex
6) Domino Theory
7) "I Have a Dream" Speech
8) The Great Society
9) The Feminine Mystique
10) Iranian Hostage Crisis
11) Camp David Peace Accords
12) Watergate Scandal
13) Peace Corps
14) Reagan Revolution
15) Lewinsky Scandal
16) 9/11
17) Obamacare
18) Trickle-Down Economics
19) Cuban Missile Crisis
20) Perestroika/Glasnost
21) JFK Assassination
22) Federalism
23) Black Lives Matter
24) Iraq/WMD
Essay Questions: You may answer any two essay questions on the exam...answers should be 3.5 pages each.
1) Discuss the "collective good" versus the "individual good" in U.S. domestic policy since the 1950s. In your opinion, which do you support and why. Give examples.
2) If you a foreign policy advisor to the next President of the U.S. what would you advice be concerning the "War of Terror"? Explain your thinking and give examples to better illustrate your position.
3) Since the end of the Cold War there has been much talk about a "New World Order". What is your ideal of a new world order? Give examples of what role the U.S. and other countries might play.