Prof. Greg Hall
Department of History
Fall 2007
History 106FYE
Study Guide for Midterm Exam #2
(Twelve of these fifteen questions will appear on your exam. You will be expected to write on ten of those twelve.)
1) Briefly explain the three international organizations designed to bring stability to the post-war world.
2) What was the Truman Doctrine?
3) Briefly explain the causes and consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
4) Explain how the urban landscape in America changed in the post-war period. (see “Flight from the Farms” in Who Built America.)
5) Why was suburban development so successful in the post-war period? (see “Suburban America” in Who Built America.)
6) What was the Tet Offensive and what were its consequences?
7) What were the factors that led to a civil rights movement following World War II?
8) What were the causes and consequences of the Tax Revolt of the 1970s?
9) Briefly explain Reaganism.
10) What were the primary goals of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s and how was it challenged by conservatives?
11) What was Welfare Reform?
12) Briefly explain the five elements of early conservation.
13) Explain the conflict between conservation and preservation.
14) What is ecology?
15) Briefly evaluate the success and failures of national and global environmentalism.
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Prof. Greg Hall
Department of History
Fall 2007
History 106FYE
Study Guide for Midterm Exam #2
(Twelve of these fifteen questions will appear on your exam. You will be expected to write on ten of those twelve.)
Who was Ethel Waters and why was she historically significant?
Explain the process by which the US became involved in World War I.
Evaluate the US’s relationship with Mexico and Central America during the Progressive Era.
Explain what the “Red Scare” was and why it’s historically significant.
Characterize “African-American Life in the 1920s.”
Evaluate the achievements of women in the 1920s.
Explain the causes of the Great Depression.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the National Recovery Administration.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Evaluate the effectiveness of Social Security during the 1930s.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the Wagner Act.
Explain the rise of the Committee for Industrial Organization.
Assess “Women in the Workforce” during World War II.
Explain how the federal government mobilized the nation to fight WWII.
Evaluate the reasons and consequences of “Japan’s Surrender” at the end of WWII.
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Prof. Greg Hall
Department of History
Fall 2007
History 106FYE
Study Guide for Midterm Exam #1
(Twelve of these fifteen questions will appear on your exam. You will be expected to write on ten of those twelve.)
Who was E. C. “Teddy Blue” Abbott and what elements of the American West did he personify?
Briefly explain the Homestead Strike and why it is historically significant.
Explain “Jim Crow” and disfranchisement in the New South.
Who was W. E. B. Du Bois? What did he accomplish and why is he historically significant?
Assess the unique features of the late 19th century American West.
Explain the significance and controversy over the working class saloon.
What were the successes and failures of the Knights of Labor?
What happened at Haymarket Square in 1886? Why was the event historically significant?
Explain the successes and failures of the “Farmers’ Revolt.”
Explain the causes and consequences of the Spanish-American War.
Explain how “new standards of living” were changing for Americans.
Explain the changes in “entertainment for the masses” during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Assess the successes and failures of the settlement house movement.
Evaluate the “militant communities” of the early 20th century.
Evaluate progressivism at the presidential level.