EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS
 
Short Identification Examples
 
Containment
NSC-68
Hiroshima
Truman Doctrine
William Levitt
Taft-Hartley Act
Kinsey Report
Martin Luther King
Cuban Revolution
Little Rock (1957)
Nixon's Checkers Speech
Joseph McCarthy
Alger Hiss Case
Bakke v. Board of Regents of California
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Earl Warren
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Little Rock (1957)
Disney Land and Sun City
Edward R. Murrow
John Kenneth Galbraith
Essays
The essay section of the exam will contain question one and one area of question two (race relations, urbanization, and the legal system) OR two areas from question two (without question one).
1) What were the factors behind the rise of the Cold War? Provide examples to support your argument.
2) One historian has argued, "Changes in American society since the end of World War II have been so dramatic as to constitute a revolution." Analyze the validity of this statement in the following areas: race relations, urbanization, and the legal system. You must use specific examples from postwar history that document the changes you discuss.