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Robert Pierce

History 17B Third Essay

PART ONE (50%)

ONE OF THE FOLLOWING WILL BE ON THE NEXT EXAM:
 

  1. Discuss the major world events during the years 1934-1941 that led to World War II and the American response (if any) to those events.
  2. Explain Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with the Supreme Court and how it affected the New Deal.
  3. "World War II degraded every major combatant nation; not one could claim to be free of officially supported actions that could be described as brutal and tantamount to war crimes." Do you agree or not? Give one example for each of the major combatant powers that would prove this statement.
  4. The 1920s was 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.
  5. Discuss from the perspective of 1945 the pros and cons of using the atomic bomb as a military weapon in World War II.
  6. How did the 1935, 1937, and 1939 Neutrality Acts reflect America's attitude toward world affairs?
  7. Discuss the impact the "politics of nostalgia" made on the 1920s.


PART II (50%)

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

1. Sinclair Lewis
2. Scopes Trial
3. T.V.A.
4. WagnerAct
5. Nuremburg Trials
6. Teapot Dome
7. Huey Long
8. John Maynard Keynes
9. Brains Trust
10. Langston Hughes
11. Stalingrad
12. Upton Sinclair
13. Old Age Revolving Pension Plan
14. D-Day
15. Marcus Garvey
16. Douglas MacArthur
17. Winston Churchill
18. Dachau and Auschwitz
19. America First
20. Battle of Midway

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