Below is a review sheet outlining the important events/characters discussed in the first segment of this class. I encourage you to form study groups to discuss these terms and to work together to strengthen your understanding of twentieth-century America and its increasingly international role.  In the process of forming questions and offering solutions, you will clarify the issues for your classmates as well as yourself.  With this said, it is also essential for you to study on your own.  Find a quiet place where you can focus on these themes and ensure that you understand them without the assistance of your study mates, hints from your notes as you read along, etc. For those students hoping to earn an A or B, it is rarely sufficient to simply reread your notes and the textbook.  For most of us, studying includes making up outlines that we use to test our knowledge, or perhaps flashcards that you make after each lecture from the outlines. I will be available during office hours and by email to help you with any questions that might arise.

Most of the exam will be made up of multiple choice questions, but there will be a small chronology section where you have to put a series of events in chronological order, as well as a small mapping section.  When studying, it may help you to think about the significance of each of these terms and why they are important. Remember the basics:  Who was involved, When did it happen, Where did it happen, What happened, and Why is it important; what is its significance.  You are responsible for the material in chapters 28, 29, and 30 in The American Experiment.

The Civil Rights Movement
13^th, 14^th, and 15^th Amendments to the Constitution
Plessy v. Ferguson
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
New Deal and Changing Parties
Tuskegee Airmen
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s approach to segregation
Brown v. Board of Education
Southern Manifesto
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Nonviolent Resistance (what is it? Examples of during Civil Rights Movement?)
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Little Rock Central High School, 1957
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Sit-Ins
Freedom Rides
Violence in Birmingham, AL 1963
March on Washington/ “I Have a Dream” 1963
Freedom Summer 1964—turning point in Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1964
Radicalization within the Civil Rights Movement
Black Power
Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
Black Panthers

Presidency of John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963
Background
Family
Ethnicity
Religion
Senator
Election of 1960
Winning the Democratic Party Nomination
Southern Primaries
Lyndon Johnson
Republican Opponent: V.P. Richard Nixon
First Nationally Televised Debate
Close Election
Defense Spending & the Missile Gap
Mafia Support?
Cuba: Background and History: US Support & Organized Crime
Fidel Castro and Cuban Revolution
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Southeast Asia: Laos & Vietnam
Founding of U.S. Army Special Forces
Founding of the Peace Corps
Expanding the War in Vietnam
Assassination
Personal Life
Robert Kennedy vs. Organized Crime
Fall 1963 Visit to Dallas, TX
Assassination in Dallas
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lone Gunman?
Jack Ruby
Warren Commission
Organized Crime?
New Frontier (see textbook)
JFK's Berlin Speech--read and listen online at:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/The+Cold+War+in+Berlin.htm
Lyndon B. Johnson
Great Society/War on Poverty
Economic Opportunity Bill
Job Corps
Head Start
VISTA
Medicare
Medicaid
Immigration Act of 1965

America in Vietnam
French Indochina
Civil War in Vietnam
U.S. Military Advisors in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Danang—Use of U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
Viet Cong (VC)
VC Style of Warfare
Tet Offensive
President Johnson and 1968 Election
Richard Nixon “Peace with Honor”
U.S. involvement in Laos & Cambodia
Protest at Home
Kent State
Henry Kissinger
Christmas Bombings
Paris Peace Treaty 1973
General Thieu
Watergate
Fall of Saigon, 1975

Mapping Section:

Know the basics of French Indochina and the Vietnam War. Use the maps in your atlas or you can use this map to help with your study.