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What is self-testing and how can it help you?

Tips: What Helps Learning?

Seeing How History Changes

Most links place historical facts in a table so you can easily compare them. You are not memorizing all of the facts placed in these tables. Instead, you are using those facts to notice changes and patterns. To help you, most links provide tips on what to notice.

· Snapshot from 1950s to 1970s– blank - Click here for completed Snapshots for 1920s to 1940s, for 1950s to 1970s, and for 1970s to 2000+ that you can view online or you can print.

Reference

· Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1953-1960 Era – with footnotes to let you find details when you want them (administration of D.D. Eisenhower, a Republican, the first since the Great Depression started)
Purpose:

- Notice rippling changes from television, the interstate highway system, and the Supreme Court.

- Notice the increase in military spending and where we are involved militarily

· Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1961-1968 Era – with footnotes to let you find details when you want them (administration of John F. Kennedy and—following his assassination—Lyndon B. Johnson)
Purpose:

- Notice the number of assassinations and of amendments to the Constitution and the continuation of the changes from television and from the Supreme Court.

WCJC Department:	History – Dr. Bibus
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Last Updated:	2014
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