Unit 3 Study Guide – a guide to preparation for all parts of the Unit Exam

 

This currently has information on Practical Issues that students want to know. If you have questions about any of this webpage, please ask. I will add more detail on the date in the Course Schedule and I will also expand these answers based on your questions. Tip: the password is at the bottom.

 

Table of Contents:

Practical Issues That Students Frequently Want to Know

Specific Tips for the Chapters

In Chapter 25: Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952 and in Chapter 26: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age

In Chapter 27: New Frontiers, 1960–1968 and in Chapter 28:Rebellion and Reaction, the 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 29: Conservative Revival, 1977–1990 and in Chapter 30:  21st Century America, 1993–Present

The password

 

Practical Issues That Students Frequently Want to Know

·         Unit 3 only has the objective part.

·         The objective part consists of 25 questions at 4 points each--but, for each question, fate (or Blackboard) could ask you any 1 of 4 or more questions.
In other words, there are a minimum of 100 questions in the test.

·         You have thirty minutes for the objective part of the test..

Specific Tips for the Chapters

This study guide tries an approach to help students with the patterns and complexity in Unit 3. The  yellow highlights in the chronologies tells you which things are questions in the Unit 3 Objective Exam.

 

In Chapter 25: Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952 and in Chapter 26: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age

·         Truman to Eisenhower to the election of 1960 with footnotes to let you find details when you want them (administration of Harry S Truman, including his election in 1948)

-       Notice the yellow highlights

-       Notice political parties, including in the election in 1952

-       Notice the push back by racism and notice what African Americans are doing .

-       Notice individuals such as Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare

-       Notice the existence of many new institutions and agencies at the national level for
a) domestic issues
b) our relationships with other nations, including the Cold War
c) the interconnection between a and b.

-       Notice the former categories of labor (usually factory workers) and unions. What are the laws now?

In Chapter 27: New Frontiers, 1960–1968 and in Chapter 28:Rebellion and Reaction, the 1960s and 1970s

·         Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon in 3 pages with footnotes to let you find details when you want them
The 4th page shows the changes in the national debt, the changes of the age of the baby boomers (and therefore what major changes happen with that age cohort), and the Presidents in the decade.

-       Notice the yellow highlights

-       Notice political parties, including in the splintering of the Democratic Party in the 1968 election and of the challenges within the Republicans with Goldwater in 1964 and after Watergate is known

-       Notice what African Americans are doing and the power of television and the push back by racism

-       Notice the existence of many new institutions and agencies at the national level for
a) domestic policies from Civil Rights to the War on Poverty to Medicare and Medicaid
b) our relationships with other nations, especially during Nixon’s presidency
c) the interconnection between a and b.

Reminder: Notice the former categories of farmers and labor (usually factory workers) and unions.

Chapter 29: Conservative Revival, 1977–1990 and in Chapter 30:  21st Century America, 1993–Present

The Administrations of Carter, Reagan, G.H. Bush, W. Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Barack Obama with footnotes to let you find details when you want them
The 5th page shows the changes in the national debt, the changes of the age of the baby boomers (and therefore what major changes happen with that age cohort), and the Presidents in the decade.

-       Notice the yellow highlights

-       Notice not just the Presidencies, but the national debt (and where it is)

-       Notice not just the names for thing but whether the names miscue the listener

-       Notice the troubled groups in the country

-       Notice the existence of many new institutions and agencies at the national level for
a) domestic policies
b) our relationships with other nations,

c) the interconnection between a and b.

 

 

The password

You may take exams only 1 time; therefore, the password is


onetimeonly – no spaces and no capital letters.

 

 

 

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