college calendar news & information apply & register catalog & schedule degrees & transfer student services international students Business and Social Sciences

Robert Pierce

History 17B Final Essay

PART ONE

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

1. Choose four of the following events and explain why they were important turning points in the Vietnam War: Geneva accords of 1954; Tet offensive; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; My Lai; Kent State. What would yow describe as the major legacy (positive or negative) of the Vietnam War?

2. Assess the positive and negative in the presidency of Richard Nixon. In your answer discuss the important moments in his presidency.

3. Assess the impact of the Great Society on American life. Be specific and cite examples of Great Society programs.

4. Discuss the shift of political power from the "rust belt" to the "sunbelt."

5. Discuss the success and failures of the Carter presidency.

6. Trace the growth of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.

PART TWO

YOU WILL BE ASKED TO IDENTIFY AND GIVE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING: (50%)

1. 1968 Democratic Party Convention
2. Colonel Daniel Ellsberg
3. Reaganomics
4. Roe v. Wade
5. Iran-Contra
6. Eugene McCarthy
7. William Calley
8. Operation Rolling Thunder
9. J. William Fulbright
10. Mario Savio
11. War on Poverty
12. Black Power
13. NOW
14. Boland Amendment
15. Stagflation
16. The "New Right"
17. Dienbienphu


Back to Dr. Pierce's home page.

Business and Social Sciences home page