Honors Twentieth-Century History Final Exam 2024 PDF

Honors Twentieth-Century History Final Exam 2024—Monday, January 27 1 hour Format: Document...

Honors Twentieth-Century History Final Exam 2024—Monday, January 27 1 hour Format: Document Based Questions and Extended Written Response Exam Format - 1 hour Part I: Two paragraph-length responses (6-8 sentences each). There will be two themes, with three documents each. Each document has its own question. You select one document from each of the two themes, and respond to the questions with a paragraph using outside information and information from the document. See p.3 for example. Part II: One two-paragraph response. You will respond to a broad question using information from three of the documents in Part I, in addition to outside information. See p.4 for example. Units and Topics Key Terms/People/Concepts Key Questions *Unit 1: World War II * Since this unit was exhaustively tested on the fall EAM, there will be no documents or questions directly related to WWII. You should, however, feel free to use information from WWII in your responses when appropriate. Unit 2: Cold War Iron Curtain, United Nations, UN Security Council, Marshall ❖​ Who started the Cold War? 1.​ Superpowers Face Off Plan, Truman Doctrine, containment, Chinese ❖​ How did the Communist Party take power in 2.​ Communist China nationalists(Kuomintang) vs. communists, Mao Zedong, 3.​ The Korean War Taiwan, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution & Red China? 4.​ Eisenhower & the Cold War Guards, Korean War, General MacArthur, proxy war, ❖​ How does the Korean War reflect a larger 5.​ Kennedy’s Foreign Policy domino theory, John Foster Dulles, massive retaliation, conflict between superpowers? 6.​ Cold War at Home brinkmanship, hydrogen bomb, Berlin Airlift, NATO, Warsaw Pact, 4 hotspots: Iran, Cuba, Hungary, Suez, Fidel ❖​ How does the Korean War reflect a larger Castro, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis,Nikita Khrushchev, conflict between superpowers? Flexible Response, Space Race, House Un-American ❖​ How did the Eisenhower administration Activities Committee, McCarthyism, Alger Hiss, Rosenbergs, respond to the Cold War? ❖​ How does Kennedy’s foreign policy depart from Dulles’ Diplomacy? ❖​ How did the Cold War lead to fear in domestic American policy? Unit 3/4: Postwar America, 1945-1968 and Chicago, 1968 Harry Truman, GI Bill, baby boom, suburbs, Committee on ❖​ How did demobilization impact American 1.​ Truman & Eisenhower Civil Rights, Fair Deal, Federal Highway Act, conformity, society?  Honors Twentieth-Century History Final Exam 2024—Monday, January 27 1 hour Format: Document Based Questions and Extended Written Response 2.​ Popular Culture & Conformity gender norms, 1950s advertising, consumer culture, ❖​ How did popular culture in the 1950s reflect 3.​ Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Newton Minnow, Brown v. Board, Montgomery Bus 4.​ Civil Rights and Conflict Boycotts & Browder v. Gayle, Southern Manifesto, a sense of conformity? 5.​ Johnson and the Great Society non-violent protests, Martin Luther King Jr, SCLC, SNCC, ❖​ How did the early Civil Rights movement 6.​ Vietnam to 1968 Civil Rights acts of ‘57 ‘60 ‘64 ‘65, Malcom X, Black take root in America? 7.​ Democratic National Convention of 1968 Panthers, Election of 1960, John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis, Lyndon B. Johnson, War on Poverty & Great Society ❖​ How did different groups go about fighting policies, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for civil rights? Medicare/Medicaid, HUD, Warren Court, Vietnam War, ❖​ How did Johnson’s presidency promote French Indo-China, Ho Chi Minh, Dien Bien Phu, Ngo Dinh Diem, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Viet Cong, Tet Offensive, liberal views and values? Election of 1968, Johnson loyalists, Mayor Daley, Joseph ❖​ How did American involvement in Vietnam McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey grow in the 1960s? Unit 5: 1968 - 19?? Vietnamization, Nixon Doctrine, Henry Kissinger, Paris ❖​ How did Nixon’s foreign policy differ from 1.​ Nixon & Vietnam Peace Accords, Kent State, My Lai, Pentagon Papers, his democrat predecessors? 2.​ Social Revolutions and Cultural Movements Cambodia bombing, detente, SALT, Nixon’s China ❖​ How did the Civil Rights movement inspire 3.​ Nixon Years diplomacy, Counterculture, Woodstock & Altamont, Second 4.​ Ford & Carter Wave Feminism, Betty Friedan, Equal Rights Amendment, other cultural movements? 5.​ Reagan & Conservatism environmentalism, Silent Spring, Clean Air Act & Clean ❖​ 6.​ End of the Cold War Water Act, EPA, silent majority, “southern strategy”, *I may add or subtract from this list up until 1/24 Watergate, Jimmy Carter, stagflation, 1973 Yom Kippur War, oil embargo, OPEC, energy shortage, Iranian Revolution, The Shah, Iran Hostage crisis, Ronald Reagan, Reaganomics, Iran-Contra, Gorbachev, Perestroika(reform) and Glasnost(openness) *I may add or subtract from this list up until 1/24  Honors Twentieth-Century History Final Exam 2024—Monday, January 27 1 hour Format: Document Based Questions and Extended Written Response  Honors Twentieth-Century History Final Exam 2024—Monday, January 27 1 hour Format: Document Based Questions and Extended Written Response Part I—Document Analysis (2 questions) Directions on exam: This section is made up of two themes from the twentieth century (each with three documents/questions). You must answer one question from each theme, for a total of 2. Be sure to meet the following criteria for your responses in this section and focus on answering the question posed. Responses for each question should be approximately 6-8 sentences in length. Criteria…​ 1. Defines and/or identifies key concepts, people, events, etc. 2. Offers specific examples 3. Explains the specific examples 4. Relates the specific examples back to the question(s). 5. Demonstrates direct learning from class (ex: discussion, documents, or homework) Sample Question for Part I Theme 1—The Rise of American Power Document 1: Chicago Sun-Times, 1969 Question… Explain the impact of a US foreign policy during the Cold War.  Honors Twentieth-Century History Final Exam 2024—Monday, January 27 1 hour Format: Document Based Questions and Extended Written Response Part II: 2 Paragraph Response Directions on Exam: Answer the question below and answer in 1-2 paragraphs. Be sure to meet the following criteria for your responses in this section and focus on answering the question posed. Criteria…​ 1. Defines and/or identifies key concepts, people, events, etc. 2. Offers specific examples 3. Explains the specific examples 4. Relates the specific examples back to the question(s). 5. Demonstrates direct learning from class (ex: discussion, documents, or homework) Sample Question for Part II Question… Using at least three(3) of the documents from Part I, answer the following question: How did American foreign policy change over the course of the Cold War?  Honors Twentieth-Century History Final Exam 2024—Monday, January 27 1 hour Format: Document Based Questions and Extended Written Response