HIST 104 News

Here is a list of items you should know for the next text. It is not comprehensive, but it should give you a good start.

13th-15th Amendments
Yalta
Truman Doctrine
Civil Rights Act 1964
Hiroshima
Marshall Plan
Freedom Riders
Alamogordo
NATO
Linda Brown
Oppenheimer
Containment
de jure
Berlin Airlift
SCLC
Iron Curtain
SNCC
Iva Toguri
Warsaw Treaty
Rosa Parks
China
Orval Faubus
Marlene Dietrich
United Nations
James Meredith
Day of Infamy
Syngman Rhee
March on Washington
Fascism
Inchon
Watts 1965
Mussolini
2nd Red Scare
Bobby Seale
Totalitarianism
Malcolm X
Mein Kampf
Joe McCarthy
Termination
Tojo Hideki
John Foster Dulles
AIM
Mao Tse-Tung
Brinksmanship
Leonard Peltier
Axis Powers
Bay of Pigs
Self-Determination
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Batista
Westmoreland
Chamberlain
Quarantine
Ngo Dinh Diem
Hitler-Stalin Pact
LBJ
Reuben James
Gulf of Tonkin
Rolling Thunder
Stalingrad
Eugene McCarthy
Tet
Operation Overlord
Draft Lottery
Dien Bien Phu
Normandy
Kissinger
SEATO
Patton
Khmer Rouge
Domino Theory
Midway
Ping Pong Diplomacy
Gen. MacArthur

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?

At least six of these will appear on the final.

What U.S. State Department official was identified as a Soviet agent by Whittaker Chambers?
a. John Foster Dulles
b. Julius Rosenberg
c. Ethel Rosenberg
d. Alger Hiss

Which U.S. President was a member, early in his political career, of the House Un-American Activities Committee?
a. Dwight D. Eisenhower
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Lyndon B. Johnson
d. Richard M. Nixon

The Korean War ended in 1953 in
a. stalemate and continued partition
b. triumph for the Communist Koreans
c. defeat for China
d. victory for the United States

According to the professor of this course, what was the dominant political aim of Vietnamese Communist Party founder Ho Chi Minh?
a. establishment of a Maoist republic
b. eradication of the monarchy
c. an alliance with the USSR
d. national independence

What 1968 event mentioned in class caused many Americans to question the credibility of their leaders and the wisdom of the Vietnam War?
a. Woodstock and the Summer of Love
b. The founding of Students for a Democratic Society
c. The antiwar march on the Pentagon
d. The Tet Offensive

Brown v. Board of Education finally repudiated the judicial doctrine of "separate but equal" established in this now-infamous case:
a. Plessy v. Ferguson
b. United States v. Amistad
c. Dred Scott v. Sanford
d. Lincoln v. Douglas

Who was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Council in 1957 after successfully leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a. Rosa Parks
b. Stokely Carmichael
c. Malcolm X
d. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What was the immediate cause of the May 4, 1970 demonstration at Kent State which led to the shooting deaths of four students by National Guardsmen?
a. The assassination of Malcolm X
b. The massacre at My Lai
c. Expansion of the war into Cambodia
d. The imprisonment of the Chicago 8

Which president ordered the Arkansas National Guard to enforce the right of African American students to enroll in a public high school?
a. Truman
b. Kennedy
c. Johnson
d. Eisenhower

Thursday, May 1
138 Minard
7pm

You all remember that the final is coming up Monday at 8am, right? You read me right, 8 in the morning.

Pay some particular attention to the Tocqueville Chapter assigned to go with Lecture 15, which will be presented in archived form on this Thursday. Be sure to grasp the definition of democratic history as opposed to aristocratic history. The essay on the final exam will deal with this distinction. If you fail to nail it, well, you cannot say you were not warned!

You'll find the slides for Lecture 15 archived here--

http://www.ndsu.edu/instruct/isern/platform/104L15/lecture15_files/frame.htm

Keep watching this blog for final exam questions, MC and essay.

To review the slides for Lecture 13, presented from the archives during my absence, go here--

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/isern/platform/104L13/lecture13_files/frame.htm

Thanks to Eric Wasvick of the Hultz Group for sharing this:

On Friday, April 18, Dr. Gretchen Harvey will present "Cherokee and
American: Ruth Muskrat Bronson and the Struggle for Dual
Cittizenship." Morrill Hall 107, 3:00 p.m. All are welcome. Join
us for this interesting presentation, good conversation and company.
Refreshments and treats will be served

My apologies again if you have not received a grade on your papers. I've cleaned out both email accounts to make room for what I hope is a flood of papers in the next few weeks. If you sent a paper as of today (4-10) and haven't received a grade by Tuesday, April 15, please resend directly to my ndsu email at: jeff.armstrong@ndsu.edu If you want to be sure your papers have been recorded, email Jim at sele@i29.net If they haven't, send a message to me (after allowing a week or so from when you sent it) and tell me what discussion group you are in. Even if you didn't save your paper, I can access it on the listerv if I know where to look. Sorry, but the i29 account has difficulty accomodating the volume of email involved in this course. Please email any further questions pertaining to the class to my ndsu account: jeff.armstrong@ndsu.edu
Thanks,
Jeff

Here they are -

Scores for Exam 2

I had to delete some scores from the report (although not, of course, from the gradebook) because they lacked the 3-digit ID#.

Let's see, I've mislaid the card of questions from lecture that Jeff handed me; it may have gone through the laundry; and I said I'd answer them in the blog. Well, one question was about the Arabic Pledge. This all had to do with the blockade during the Great War; Germany had been sinking passenger ships, including, in August 1915, the Arabic. The US was so upset about this that Germany issued the Arabic Pledge, promising it would give warning before sinking passenger vessels, so that passengers could be gotten into lifeboats. This pledge lasted only a matter of months.

Two of these three questions will appear on the upcoming exam. Write on one.

Tocqueville tells us that Americans are touchy--that they have excessive national vanity, or pride. Do you see this as a factor in American conduct and action leading up to war with Spain in 1898 and Germany in 1918?

Tocqueville asserts that in a democracy, political power will flow to the center, creating an ever more powerful federal government. Judging by events in the U.S. 1900-40, is he right?

The United States has not had a significant revolution since the Civil War, and yet the country has changed profoundly. According to Tocqueville, how does reform, constructive change, happen in a democracy? (Illustrate with examples from American history 1900-1940.)

The review lecture over the New Deal today will be presented by David Silkenet and is entitled, "Legacies of the New Deal." I'll be there to make a few prefatory remarks about the upcoming exam and introduce the speaker.