FINAL  EXAMINATION  REVIEW:

This is your final examination. 
Your examination will be multiple choice and matching.  It will cover events from chapter 29 to 31 in your text.  You will need to bring to class with you a pencil and scantron sheet. 
Things you should know:


Chapter 29:  The New Frontiers
You should know:
  • The election of 1960:  Backgrounds of JFK and Nixon, campaign, debates and controversial results.  Also JFK’s inaugural speech.
  • JFK’s administration:  Best and brightest, Camelot.  Problems with Congress and domestic issues.  Early legislative achievements—Urban renewal, minimum wage, Peace Corps, Trade Expansion Act
  • Warren Court:  School prayer and Rights of defendants
  • Civil Rights under JFK:  Sit-ins, SNCC, James Meredith and Ol’ Miss, March on Washington
  • JFK and Foreign Affairs:  Bay of Pig, Vienna Summit, Berlin Crisis and Wall, Cuban Missile crisis, and Vietnam
  • Johnson and the Great Society:  Know what programs hi proposed
  • Election of 1964:  Backgrounds on LBJ and Goldwater, Republican conservative approach
  • LBJ and Civil Rights:  Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Black Power Movement, Black Muslims, Assassination of ML King
  • LBJ and Vietnam:  Gulf of Tonkin Affair and escalation, Erosion of support, Tet Offensive, and Johnson’s refusal to run for president in 1968
  • Elections of 1968:  Split Democratic party, Disorder at Democratic convention, Wallace and the Independent American Party, Nixon’s victory.
 
 
Chapter 30:  Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s
You should know:
  • The Youth Movement:  New Left and the SDS, Port Huron Statement, Protests, radicalization of the movement during the late 1960s, the split in the SDS and the decline of the New Left; Counterculture and Hippies
  • Feminism:  Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique, NOW, ERA, Title IX, Roe v. Wade
  • Nixon and Vietnam:  Policy of gradual withdrawal and Vietnamization, expanded war into Cambodia, Pentagon Papers, and final withdrawal in 1973
  • Economic problems:  Stagflation and ways Nixon tried to combat it.
  • Nixon Foreign Policy:  Nixon doctrine, Détente with USSR, Rapprochement with China, SALT agreement
  • Election of 1972:  McGovern candidacy, Nixon landslide
  • Watergate and fallout.
  • Ford Administration:  Economic issues, diplomatic accomplishments
  • Election of 1976:  Carter’s victory
  • Carter Administration:  Diplomatic victories—Human rights, Camp David agreements; Stagflation; Iran Crisis
 
 
Chapter 31:  Conservative Insurgency
You should know:
  • Election of 1980:  Carter v. Reagan; Iran Crisis; Supporters of Reagan—i.e. elderly, Moral Majority; Reagan’s charm; voter apathy
  • Reagan’s First Term:  “Reaganomics”; Foreign affairs—i.e. anti-communism, “Star Wars”, Central America (El Salvador, Nicaragua, Granada), Lebanon, Iran-Iraq War
  • Reagan’s Second Term:  Election of 1984; Reagan Doctrine; Arms Control; Reagan and Gorbachev; Iran-Contra scandal; The “left-out”, Homeless, AIDS sufferers
  • Election of 1988:  Geo. HW Bush (I) v. Dukakis
  • Bush (I) Years:  Foreign Affairs—China, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, weapons reductions, Panama, 1991 Persian Gulf War
 
TERMS:
Peace Corps
Miranda v Arizona
Sit-ins
James Meredith
SNCC
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
War on Poverty
VISTA
“Daisy Girl” Campaign Advertisement
Great Society
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Watts Riot
Black Panthers
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
“Rolling Thunder”
General Westmoreland
Tet offensive
1968 Democratic Convention
Tom Hayden and Port Huron Statement
SDS
Woodstock and Altamont Concert 1969
Kent State University shooting
My Lai Massacre
Pentagon Papers
26th Amendment
SALT Agreement
Watergate
Jerry Falwell and Moral Majority
Sandinista and Contras
Reaganomics
Iran-Contra Affair—Oliver North
Grenada
Mikhail Gorbachev
1991 Persian Gulf War