Part I.  Identification: 40% of the exam will be based upon your ability to identify and give the significance of the following terms.  For each one, be prepared to write a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) in which you consider the "who, what, when, where, and why" of each item, as well as why these are SIGNIFICANT.  For Acronyms, be sure to correctly identify what the letters stand for in their appropriate historical context.  For example, the AAA is NOT the American Automobile Association, but the Agriculture Adjustment Administration.  The item might be the first, last, most typical, exceptional, beginning or end of something, start or end of a trend, turning point, or some other factor that sets it apart from other items. Out of the 10 points offered for each item, approximately 70% of your grade will be awarded for correct identification, with the remaining 30% counting towards the significance.  Those terms appearing on the exam will be selected from the following:
 
 

Huerta	Carranza	Pancho Villa	John Pershing	Schleiffen Plan
Lusitania	Arabic Pledge	National Defense Act	Selective Service Act	George Cohan
League of Nations	American Expeditionary Force	Marne	Belleau Wood	Meuse-Argonne
"voluntarism"	Lever Food and Fuel Act	Council on National Defense	War Industries Board	Bernard Baruch
Liberty Loan Act	Committee on Public Information	Espionage and Sedition Acts	Volstead Act	prohibition
Versailles	Henry Cabot Lodge	Fourteen Points	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Gertrude Stein
Ernest Hemingway	Rudolph Valentino	Clara Bow	A. Mitchell Palmer	"Palmer Raids"
Sacco and Vanzetti	Ku Klux Klan	John Scopes	Clarence Darrow	Charles Lindbergh
Veterans Bureau	Washington Naval Conference	Teapot Dome	Kellogg-Briand Pact	"welfare capitalism"
McNary Haugen Bill	American Individualism	National Business Survey Conference	Ag. Marketing Act	PECE
PACE	POUR	National Credit Corporation	RFC	Glass Steagall Act
"trickle-down economics"	Scottsboro Boys	Bonus Army	CCC	FERA
AAA	NIRA	PWA	NRA	TVA
Father Coughlin	Dr. Francis Townsend	Huey Long	Schecter Poultry vs. U.S.	NLRA/Wagner Act
Social Security Act	WPA	Manchukuo	Stimson Doctrine	Rainbow Plans
"lebensraum"	Gerald Nye	"anschluss"	Neutrality Acts	U.S.S.Panay
Cash and Carry	Lend Lease	Destroyers for Bases Deal	Battle of Britain	Operation Barbarossa
"Four Freedoms"	The Atlantic Charter	Arcadia Conference	Operation Torch	Casablanca
Operation Market Garden	Teheran Conference	Yalta Conference	Guadalcanal	Potsdam Conference
Operation Overlord	Battle of the Bulge	Iwo Jima	Okinawa	Hiroshima
Nagasaki	War Refugee Board	Auschwitz	Nisei	Office of War Information
War Production Board	National War Labor Board	Oveta Hobby	FEPC	"zoot suits"

Part II.  Essay:  50% of your grade will be based upon your ability to write persuasively.  The exam will include a choice of questions based upon the topics outlined below.  While they may not appear exactly in the same format, the information asked for will be essentially the same.  Your task is to craft that information into an effective essay.  To write persuasively, it is absolutely necessary that you develop an argument (take a point of view), write in complete sentences, and use proper grammar.  An "A" essay will be one that does all of these, as well as contains specific examples from the text and lectures to support any assertions that are made.

World War One:  What role did the United States play during the "war to end all wars"?  How did Woodrow Wilson envision the postwar world, and how did this vision, coupled with the American contribution during the war, make it difficult to shape a lasting peace at Versailles?

1920s -- Society:  Which of the following most effectively describe the 1920s?  "The Lost Generation," "The Roaring 20s," or "the Jazz Age"?  If none of these are correct, why do they fail to be accurate, and what ios a more effective label for the 1920s?

1920s -- Politics:  From a political standpoint, explain why the 1920s may be considered "A Return to Normalcy?"  Who advocated this normalcy and what did it represent?

Great Depression:  What were the long term and short term causes of the Great Depression?  Why might an American president not realize that there were

New Deal:  Herbert Hoover is frequently characterized as a "do nothing president," for his failures to solve the problems associated with the Great depression?  Is this an accurate characterization?  What was the New Deal, what were its components,  and how did the formation of a "New Deal Coalition," ensure Democratic political dominance until the 1940s?  Did the New Deal end the depression?  Why or why not.

World War Two:  How did the Allies win World War Two?  How did their contributions differ?  How did their wartime roles shape the formation of the postwar world?