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HISTORY 1201 EXAM THREE Choose one question from each section for a total of SIX short answers

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HISTORY 1201 EXAM THREE Choose one question from each section for a total of SIX short answers. Each answers should be approximately 7-8 sentences. A successful answer will include specific examples (names, dates, events, people, places, actions, reactions, significance of the event, etc.) to support your conclusions. Do not copy from the textbook or the internet. Use your lecture notes and review the Powerpoints. Do not get out of email contact with me! If there is something wrong with your file and you do not respond to email requests you will have to accept the consequences. NO extensions will be granted unless there are EXTREME circumstances and then time will be extremely limited because I have to post final grades 48 hours after the exam is due. ***PLEASE DO NOT CUT AND PASTE THE ENTIRE EXAM INTO YOUR DOCUMENT AND LEAVE EXTRA UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ON YOUR FINAL SUBMISSION! ONLY INCLUDE THE QUESTIONS THAT YOUR ARE ANSWERING! DO NOT FORGET TO INCLUDE THE PLAGIARISM STATEMENT*** JFK & LBJ 1. What was the Bay of Pigs? What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? Why was Kennedy viewed as “soft on communism”? 2. What were the elements of Johnson’s Great Society? Why was the “Affluent Society” actually an illusion? CIVIL RIGHTS 3. Describe Civil Rights activism in the 1960s and give specific examples of the focus of the movement. How did reactions by southern whites help the cause of Civil Rights? 4. How did African-Americans respond when it was clear that legislation in 1964 and 1965 would not be enough? What did the Kerner Commission determine about race relations in the US? VIETNAM 5. How did the US become involved in Vietnam? How and why did the war escalate? Why was the US unsuccessful? 6. What led to a change in US attitudes towards the war in Vietnam? Why did the war now appear to be “unwinnable”? 1968 7. Why was 1968 such a tumultuous year for the United States? How did this lead to Nixon’s victory in the 1968 Presidential election? 8. How did the liberation movements—women, ethnic minorities, homosexuals—in the late sixties and early seventies take their cue from Civil Rights and challenge social norms? NIXON 9. What was Nixon’s (and Kissinger’s) approach to the Cold War? How did their approach differ from previous presidents? 10. What led to the Watergate scandal? How did these events damage public views of the office of the Presidency and lead to general distrust? CARTER & REAGAN 11. What was Jimmy Carter’s approach to foreign policy? What were his most important successes? His failures? 12. Why was there a cultural shift in the 1970s and a movement to return to more “traditional” values? How does this lead to the rise of the Moral Majority and the election of Reagan? 13. What was Reagan’s approach to the Cold War? How was his approach a return to previous Cold War attitudes toward the Soviet Union?