Advance Instructions for Third Exam

Units 9-12

150 points

          The third exam is worth 150 points out of 600 in the class.  It includes a take-home section, with one writing assignment, and a proctored test.

The proctored test will be given at the RSU Testing Center on Friday Novemebr 10. More information about using the testing center will be available on the professor’s website. The time limit for the test is 75 minutes, so be sure to get to the testing center 75 minutes before closing time,

Take-Home Question: Document Analysis (50 Points)

        Please choose one of these four topics.  Your paper will be due Sunday November 12 at 6:00 P.M.  Please submit your work through the drop box provided in Unit 12.  Your paper should be a maximum of five pages, typed and double-spaced, 12-point font.  Please be sure that your paper fulfils the University’s Academic Integrity requirements.

Prepare your essay in a Microsoft Word File (.doc) or a text file (.txt or .rtf). Include your full name and your e-mail address in the document. Send it as an attachment to an e-mail. The subject line must read: TV History Exam Essay, followed by your full name, e.g., TV History Exam Essay, Attila the Hun.

1. The Military-Industrial Complex (50 points)

        In his farewell address to the American people, President Eisenhower warned of the dangers of a “military-industrial complex.”  What was he talking about? Why, according to Eisenhower, did the military-industrial complex develop?  What dangers did he think it presented for America?  To what extent was the state of Oklahoma affected by it? What do you think: was Eisenhower right?  Be sure to say why you think as you do.

        Please make use of all course materials that are relevant to the question. Read the full text of Eisenhower’s speech, also available in Major Problems (pages 291-292). Be sure to include specific references to Eisenhower’s speech. ou may use additional materials if you like, although this is not recommended because it makes extra work for you.  If you do use additional sources, please provide a works-consulted page with full bibliographic data for each resource. Your paper should be a maximum of five pages, typed and double-spaced, 12-point font. 

2.  Race and Racism in Germany and the United States (50 points)

          Compare the views and aims of Adolf Hitler to those of the Ku Klux Klan, and to other prominent Americans, including Theodore Roosevelt and the governor of California.   (In Major Problems, see pages 247-249 for Hitler, 183-185 for the KKK, 109-110 for Theodore Roosevelt's ideas as described by Gail Bedeman, and 182-183 for the California governor). Remember to make explicit references to the primary sources. Please be sure to consider the following issues:

a. In what ways do Hitler's ideas and aims resemble those of (at least) some Americans? 

b. How do their ideas differ? 

c. How did World War II affect the power of racist ideas in the United States?

          Please make use of all course materials that are relevant to the question. You may use additional materials if you like, although this is not recommended because it makes extra work for you.  If you do use additional sources, please provide a works-consulted page with full bibliographic data for each resource.

       Your paper should be a maximum of five pages, typed and double-spaced, 12-point font. 

3.  Commencement Speeches for Women Graduates (50 points)

Describe the ideas expressed by Adlai Stevenson in his Commencement Address at Smith College in 1955 (Major Problems, 320-321) and compare them with other contemporary views (e.g. Documents 2, 7, and 9 in Major Problems, chapter 11.  (Smith College is an elite women's college in Massachusetts.) What ideas would a US Senator be likely to emphasize in a commencement address at Smith in 2004?  Prepare an outline with the main ideas for such a speech.

          Please make use of all course materials that are relevant to the question. Include specific references to the primary sources. You may use additional materials if you like, although this is not recommended because it makes extra work for you.  If you do use additional sources, please provide a works-consulted page with full bibliographic data for each resource. Your paper should be a maximum of five pages, typed and double-spaced, 12-point font.   

4.  Visions in the Sixties (50 points)

           Examine the speeches by John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and the statements by Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Major Problems, chapter 13.  What views do they offer about American life?  What are they key differences between them?  Which view appeals to you?  Please explain why.

          Make use of all course materials that are relevant to the question. Include specific references to the primary sources. You may use additional materials if you like, although this is not recommended because it makes extra work for you.  If you do use additional sources, please provide a works-consulted page with full bibliographic data for each resource. Your paper should be a maximum of five pages, typed and double-spaced, 12-point font. 

Proctored Test (100 points)

        The online portion of the exam will be available Friday November 10 at the RSU Testing Center.  This test will include questions that test your recall and understanding of key information from the reading.  These additional questions could occur in a number of formats:

a. Multiple-choice questions.

b. Brief writing assignments (e.g., What were the major programs included in Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society?).

c. Identifications: brief writing assignments in which you state the important facts about a person, event or movement and indicate why it is historically important. 

Possible Identifications

Manchuria

Isolationism

Appeasement

Neutrality Acts

Lend-lease

Four Freedoms

June 6, 1944

Manhattan Project

Nagasaki

Yalta

NATO

Fair Deal

Alger Hiss

HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

Truman’s Loyalty Program

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Massive Retaliation

The Baby Boom

Betty Freidan

Elvis Presley

NASA

Beats

The Other America

John F. Kennedy

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Lyndon Johnson

Great Society

National Liberation Front

Ngo Dinh Diem

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Tet Offensive

Vietnamization

New Left

Counterculture

Indian Civil Rights Movement

George Wallace

Election of 1968