FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

HISTORY 232/DR. SCHMOLL/FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
FORMAT: Two Essays


I. ESSAY ONE: SINCE THE MIDTERM (NEW DEAL TO THE 1970S) (40%)

The final exam will have one of the following essay questions:

1. What were the most important reforms of the New Deal? How effective were they in solving the problems of the Great Depression?

2. How was the American Experience of World War Two different from that of the War in Vietnam?

3. What lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the two landmark pieces of Civil Rights legislation?

4. Why was there so much radicalism in the 1960s?


II. ESSAY TWO: CUMULATIVE ESSAY (60%)
I will give you two questions on the cumulative section. You will answer one of the two questions. The questions will be taken from the following themes. Hence, these are themes that you should study; you’ll be given the actual questions on the day of the test.

1. The consequences of war(not the causes but the consequences):
What changed in the U.S. as a result of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and Vietnam?
2. The effect of social reform:
What impact did progressivism, the New Deal, the social movements in the 1960s, and the Great Society have?
3. Black Boy, The Good War, and Rumor of War: Finding meaning in the modern world through the lens of these three books. This question will






YOU MUST BRING A NEW BLUE BOOK TO THE FINAL EXAM. DO NOT WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE BLUE BOOK SINCE YOU WILL BE HANDING IT TO ME, AND I WILL BE DISTRIBUTING THEM THROUGHOUT THE CLASS.