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Robert Pierce

History 17B Fourth Essay -- Summer session

YOU WILL BE ASKED TO ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING (50%)

1. List and discuss three events during the period 1945-49 that led to the development, in 1950, of what became known as "McCarthyism" and then discuss what impact this red scare had on American life.

2. List the three events of the civil rights movement that you think are the most crucial and justify your choices.

3. Discuss the "quiet 1950s" and the decade's impact on American life. Which elements have been long lasting, which were not, and why?

PART TWO (50%)

You will be asked to IDENTIFY and give the SIGNIFICANCE of FOUR of the following:

1. Bay of Pigs
2. Taft-Hartley Act
3. George Kennan
4. U-2 incident
5. Cuban Missile Crisis
6. 1964 Civil Rights Act
7. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
8. Voting Rights Act of 1965
9. Hollywood Ten
10. Inchon
11. Sputnik
12. Rosa Parks
13. 38th parallel
14. Berlin Airlift
15. Truman Doctrine
16. HUAC


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