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Robert Pierce

History 17B Second Essay -- Long Distance Learning

PART ONE (50%)

ONE OF THE FOLLOWING WILL BE ON THE NEXT EXAM:


1. Explain Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with the Supreme Court and how it affected the New Deal.
2. The 1920s were a decade of great contrast and adjustment. Discuss the cultural disputes that made themselves apparent during the 1920s and comment on the cause of this clash of cultures.
3. Discuss from the perspective of 1945 the pros and cons of using the atomic bomb as a military weapon in World War II.
4. How did the 1935, 1937, and 1939 Neutrality Acts reflect America's attitudes toward World events during that period?

PART II (50%)

You will be asked to Identify and give the significance of four of the following:

  1. Sinclair Lewis
  2. Langston Hughes
  3. Scopes Trial
  4. Upton Sinclair
  5. T.V.A.
  6. D-Day
  7. Wagner Act
  8. Marcus Garvey
  9. U. S. S. Oklahoma
  10. 14. Prohibition
  11. Teapot Dome
  12. 15. Social Security Act
  13. Huey Long
  14. America First
  15. John Maynard Keynes
  16. Battle of Midway
  17. Brains Trust
  18. Henry Ford and the Model T
  19. Marshall Plan
  20. Truman Doctrine
  21. Berlin Airlift
  22. Taft-Hartley
  23. McCarthyism
  24. Treaty of Versailles
  25. Sedition Act of 1818


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