HIST 141 Review Sheet for Final Exam PDF

**HIST 141 Review Sheet for Final Exam** **[Terms and Issues in Post World War II America]** Result of World War II Fashion 1930s-50s Causes and Debate on the Origins of the Cold War Cold War Themes American suspicions and communist expansion Containment and George Kennan's long telegram Tru...

**HIST 141 Review Sheet for Final Exam** **[Terms and Issues in Post World War II America]** Result of World War II Fashion 1930s-50s Causes and Debate on the Origins of the Cold War Cold War Themes American suspicions and communist expansion Containment and George Kennan's long telegram Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Iron Curtain Berlin Airlift NATO formation Post-war Prosperity GI Bill of 1944 Election of 1948 Truman Ex Order desegregates the military "The Shocks of 1949" House Un-American Activities (HUAC) and Blacklisting Joseph McCarthy Korea and the Cold War Truman and MacArthur Election of 1952 Primary Sources on the 1950s Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower Levittown, NY and suburban developments Interstate Highway Act (1956) The "Beat" Generation, Kerouac's *On the Road,* Alan Ginsberg, *Howl* Davis, *Kind of Blue* 1950s critics: David Reisman, *The Lonely Crowd*, William Whyte, *The Organization Man* Women in the 1950s, and working outside the home Kinsey Report Critics of Mass Culture Youth rebellion Eisenhower foreign policy, JF Dulles, and "The New Look" Brinksmanship, massive retaliation Sputnik The Covert Side of the New Look, US policy in Guatemala and Iran Castro's revolution in Cuba Historical Assessment of American cold war policies Nixon-Kennedy debates and Election of 1960 Bay of Pigs Kennedy and Vietnam Cuban Missile Crisis Causes of Civil Rights Movement in 1950s Brown v Board of Education (1954) Martin Luther King, Jr Montgomery Bus Boycott, primary sources Eyes on the Prize, "Awakenings" Greensboro (NC) Sit-ins Little Rock, Arkansas Diversity of civil rights organizations March on Washington The Tragedy in Dallas Civil Rights Act of 1964 Selma and the Voting Rights Act (1965) Black Power Urban violence in the late 1960s Evolution of King's actions and campaigns Johnson's "Great Society" Immigration Act of 1965 The Warren Court, (Clarence Earl) Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) The Counterculture, the Beatles, Woodstock Vatican II Council and impact on American Catholics Distinctive portrayals of the Civil Rights Era Primary Sources on Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Dien Bien Phu Tonkin Gulf Incident, President with "all necessary means" Rolling Thunder Democratic Convention of 1968 US involvement in Vietnam: entanglement, escalation, and escape Tet Nixon and Vietnamization Fall of Saigon LBJ, Great Society and Vietnam Nixon to China US support for coup in Chile Identity and Values Movements Latino Activism, Cesar Chavez Grape Boycott, Chavez v Gonzalez American Indian Activism Gay Rights, Women's Rights Environmental and Anti-corporate movements Nixon's political strategies, Watergate and Resignation Carter Presidency The media and television in the 1970s Revolution in Iran, Turning over Canal to Panama Sadat-Begin Camp David meetings Three Mile Island Iran Hostages "Crisis of confidence" speech Reagan Presidency Rise of Conservatism Supreme Court: Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Thomas Reagan's economic policy, "supply side economics" growing the deficit Iran-Contra Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War George H.W. Bush Presidency, Berlin Wall falls, Gulf War, "Operation Desert Storm" Clinton Presidency NAFTA, welfare reform New Immigration Economic Recovery and eliminated deficits Internet Revolution George W. Bush Presidency 9/11 and "Doctrine of Preemption" Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Obama Presidency Telecommunications Act (1996) Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) Jill Lepore, "The Frailty of Democracy," *These Truths* **[Chronology:]** Be able to recognize the correct order of these events Truman Doctrine (1947) Levittown construction begins (1947) Truman Desegregates the Military (1948) Korean War begins (1950) Eisenhower elected President (1952) Brown v Board of Education (1954) Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) Interstate Highway Act (1956) Election of John F Kennedy (1960) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) March on Washington (1963) Johnson launches Great Society program (1965) Voting Rights Act (1965) Operation Rolling Thunder, US bombing North Vietnam (1965) Detroit Riots (1967) US troop levels in Vietnam peak at over 500,000 (1968) Nixon elected President (1968) Watergate burglary (1972) Nixon resigns/Ford becomes president (1974) Carter Defeats Ford (1976)\ Carter supports Sadat-Begin meetings (1978) Reagan elected President (1980) Iran-contra scandal breaks (1986) George H.W. Bush elected President (1988) Berlin wall taken down (1989) Gulf War (1991) Clinton elected President (1992) President George W. Bush (2000) 9/11 (2001) American troops to Afghanistan (2001) "Coalition of the Willing" War in Iraq (2003) Obama elected President (2008)