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Review Terms for Final
Essay Question
There will be only one essay question on the final. Here it is.
Based on the content and explanations you have heard throughout the term, and on the distinction made by Tocqueville in Chapter 25, answer this question: Is this course taught from the point of view of an aristocratic historian, or that of a democratic historian?
Based on the content and explanations you have heard throughout the term, and on the distinction made by Tocqueville in Chapter 25, answer this question: Is this course taught from the point of view of an aristocratic historian, or that of a democratic historian?
MC Questions
OK, you know the drill. At least five of the following will appear on the final exam.
What Supreme Court ruling rationalized racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal"?
A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Plessy v. Ferguson
C. Marbury v. Madison
D. The Amistad Case
Who was the first African American to successfully enroll at Ole Miss University?
A. Rosa Parks
B. Stokely Carmichael
C. James Meredith
D. Jesse Jackson
Who were the freedom riders?
A. Troublemakers from the North
B. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
C. Civil rights activists defying racial segregation on interstate bus companies
D. Southern vigilantes fighting to preserve all-white schools
What was the name of post-war agreement establishing a Soviet-dominated alliance of eastern and central European nations?
A. The Communist Manifesto
B. The Berlin Blockade
C. The Iron Curtain Accord
D. The Warsaw Pact
What was the code name for the secret U.S. program to develop the atom bomb?
A. Dr. Strangelove
B. The Domino Theory
C. The Manhattan Project
D. The Doomsday Machine
The largest amphibious military invasion in history occurred during which of the following?
A. Battle of the Bulge
B. Operation Overlord
C. Anzio Invasion
D. Battle of Midway
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with which country in 1939?
A. Britain
B. France
C. United States
D. Germany
Who led the Chinese Communists to power in a rural-based revolution in 1949?
A. Mao Zedong
B. Ho Chi Minh
C. Chiang Kai -shek
D. Deng Xiaoping
By what term did Winston Churchill characterize the consolidation of one-party communist rule in eastern Europe after WWII?
A. The Velvet Revolution
B. The Masque of the Red Death
C. The Iron Curtain
D. The Berlin Wall
United States involvement in Vietnam steadily increased after the disastrous defeat of France in what 1954 battle?
A. Gulf of Tonkin
B. Dien Bien Phu
C. Ho Chi Minh City
D. Algiers
What Supreme Court ruling rationalized racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal"?
A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Plessy v. Ferguson
C. Marbury v. Madison
D. The Amistad Case
Who was the first African American to successfully enroll at Ole Miss University?
A. Rosa Parks
B. Stokely Carmichael
C. James Meredith
D. Jesse Jackson
Who were the freedom riders?
A. Troublemakers from the North
B. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
C. Civil rights activists defying racial segregation on interstate bus companies
D. Southern vigilantes fighting to preserve all-white schools
What was the name of post-war agreement establishing a Soviet-dominated alliance of eastern and central European nations?
A. The Communist Manifesto
B. The Berlin Blockade
C. The Iron Curtain Accord
D. The Warsaw Pact
What was the code name for the secret U.S. program to develop the atom bomb?
A. Dr. Strangelove
B. The Domino Theory
C. The Manhattan Project
D. The Doomsday Machine
The largest amphibious military invasion in history occurred during which of the following?
A. Battle of the Bulge
B. Operation Overlord
C. Anzio Invasion
D. Battle of Midway
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with which country in 1939?
A. Britain
B. France
C. United States
D. Germany
Who led the Chinese Communists to power in a rural-based revolution in 1949?
A. Mao Zedong
B. Ho Chi Minh
C. Chiang Kai -shek
D. Deng Xiaoping
By what term did Winston Churchill characterize the consolidation of one-party communist rule in eastern Europe after WWII?
A. The Velvet Revolution
B. The Masque of the Red Death
C. The Iron Curtain
D. The Berlin Wall
United States involvement in Vietnam steadily increased after the disastrous defeat of France in what 1954 battle?
A. Gulf of Tonkin
B. Dien Bien Phu
C. Ho Chi Minh City
D. Algiers
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