Possible Essay Questions for Unit 3: Transformations – America from 1940 to the 21st Century

 

 

General Tips

When you read, you identify significant and representative events. When you write, you select from those significant and representative events. You are not writing every fact in the textbook.

You can identify information about significant and representative events that you need to read about carefully by:

§  Using the index at the back of the textbook with the general words in the question

§  Using the quiz questions for this Unit to find specific words to use in the index at the back of the textbook

§  Specific Tip for this Unit: you may find it helpful to use my completed version of the Snapshot for the prior period of 1920s to 1940s (with the ending being for Quiz G), for 1950s to 1970s (with Quiz H) and for 1980s to about 2008 (with Quiz I) to see how these events fit together—or click here for these Snapshots.

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 1

The narrow strip will include two of these to choose from. You write on about the significant and representative events for either one of those choices. You are not writing every fact in the textbook; you are selecting significant and representative events. Unless a different time is specified, you are writing from the 1940s to the latest time covered by quiz questions (about 2008).

 

Terms Grouped by Chapters and Quizzes

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Details or Tips

Changes to African Americans

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

See Specific Tip for this Unit above.

Changes to women

X

X

 

X

X

X

 

See Specific Tip for this Unit above.

Television on voters since the 1950s

 

X

X

X

 

X

X

See Specific Tip for this Unit above.
Tip: Notice the word is voters

Television on leaders or politicians since the 1950s

 

X

X

X

 

X

X

See Specific Tip for this Unit above.

Tip: Notice the words are politicians or leaders

 

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2

The narrow strip will include two of these to choose from. You write on either one.

Terms Grouped by Chapters and Quizzes

Chapter

 

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Details or Tips

Central Intelligence Agency since its creation

 

X

X

 

X

X

X

See Specific Tip for this Unit above.

Tip: Notice its creation.

Iran since World War II

 

X

 

 

X

X

 

See Specific Tip for this Unit above.

Israel since its creation

 

X

X

 

X

X

X

See Specific Tip for this Unit above.

Tip: Notice initial recognition.

Vietnam since World War II

 

 

X

X

X

 

 

See Specific Tip for this Unit above.

 

 

 

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