History 232—TuTh 3:10PM - 5:15PM
Spring 2012
Section 002
CRN 30120

Music Building 114
Office: Faculty
Towers 201A
Instructor: Dr. Brett Schmoll
Office Hours: Tues
and Thu 11:35-2:35
…OR
MAKE AN APPOINTMENT!!!

Thursday, May 31, 2012

FOR THE MULTIPLE CHOICE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS ARE VITALLY IMPORTANT...


Containment and Domino Thinking
Lyndon Baines Johnson "Great Society"
War Powers Act of 1973
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act
Fair Campaign Act of 1974
Freedom of Information Act
Betty Friedan: Feminine Mystique (1963)
Plessy v Ferguson (1898)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Little Rock Central High School (1957)
                                    Orval Faubus
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott:
Emmitt Till
The Sit-Ins:
Freedom Rides:
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
         --Fannie Lou Hammer
Washington Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Neutrality Acts
Ludlow Amendment
Stockpile Act
Educational Orders Act
Civilian War Resources Board
Lend-Lease
The Atlantic Charter
Attack of Pearl Harbor
Plessy v Ferguson (1898)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Brown II
Keynesian Economics
WPA
CCC
AAA
Social Security Act:
Emergency Banking Act:
Huey Long
Presidential Organization for
Unemployment Relief (POUR)
Bonus March
Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

War in Vietnam/Watergate


I. War in Vietnam

            A. Anti-Communist Context:
                        Containment and Domino Thinking
                       
B. Escalation
                        1. Advisors:
                        2. Lyndon Baines Johnson "Great Society"
                                    --SEE LIST BELOW--
                        3. Gulf of Tonkin
                        4. Rolling Thunder
5. The Crucial Year: 1968
a. Anti-War Movement—SDS
            Anti-War Music:
fixin to die rag country joe
war Edwin starr
ohio Crosby stills nash young
masters of war dylan
           
b. The Tet Offensive
                                    c. Enter Tricky Dick:
"secret plan"

II. Watergate
A. Break-In/Cover-Up
B. Reform:
                        1. War Powers Act of 1973
                        2. Congressional Budget and                                                                         Impoundment Act
                        3. Fair Campaign Act of 1974
                        4. Freedom of Information Act
                        5. --Attitude Adjustment--

III. Losing a War:


SOME OF THE POLICY PRODUCTS OF THE GREAT SOCIETY

Head Start
Upward Bound
Job Corps
Volunteers in Service to America
Office of Economic Opportunity
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Immigration Act of 1965
Public Works and Economic Development Act
Clean Air Act
Highway Safety Act
R and D bills
Historic Preservation Act
Crime bills
Medicaire
Medicaid
Affirmative Action



Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945
"All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free. The Declaration of the French Revolution…states: "All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights." Those are undeniable truths. Yet, the French imperialists, abusing the standard of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, have violated our Fatherland and oppressed our fellow citizens. They have acted contrary to the ideals of humanity and justice. In the field of politics, they have deprived our people of every democratic liberty.

HISTORY 232 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE


I. (50%) Multiple Choice: 25 of 27
These questions will be taken from class lectures since the last exam.

II. (50%) Essay:
This essay is different from the one you just wrote because you will not have an outline or other materials with you.
It is similar because you will be choosing from one of the following questions. You choose one and prepare that question.
You should still make an outline and memorize it. You may not bring the outline into the exam. You should, however, refer often to readings or class notes or anything else to help you make your case.

1. How did the U.S. change as a result of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, AND the War in Vietnam? Judging from the nation’s experience of war, can you make some generalization regarding the impact of war on a country?

2. Progress is fundamental to the traditional narrative of American history. Considering the history of the U.S. from 1865 to 1980, is that accurate?

3. Discuss the social and political transformation that the country went through during Progressivism, the New Deal, AND the changes associated with the 1960s. Which of these periods of reform ushered in the most profound social and political change?

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

second wave feminism...

The Problem with No Name/Making the Personal Political

Betty Friedan: Feminine Mystique (1963)
--“the problem lay buried"

--Women “could desire no greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity,"

FREEDOM SUMMER:
"we didn't come down here to work as a maid this summer."

"Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deeply rooted and every much as crippling to the women as the assumptions of white superiority are to the Negro."

--Presidential Commission on the Status of Women

--Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

National Organization for Women:
"to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men."
1967: 1000 members
1971: 15,000 members



LIBERAL VS. RADICAL FEMINISM

Liberal Feminism:  NOW

Radical Feminism:
            SCUM
            W.I.T.C.H.
            Redstockings
            Cell 16


AS A RESULT OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT:

            1. increased participation of women in politics on all levels

            2. Title IX of Educational Amendments Acts of 1972, prohibited colleges from discriminating on basis of sex, requiring schools to fund womens' sports at a comparable level to mens' sports

            3. Roe v. Wade: 1973, struck down Texas and Georgia statutes outlawing   abortion, saying that states could no longer outlaw abortions in the  first trimester of pregnancy

            4. Equal Credit Opportunity Commission: in 1974, made it possible for women to get credit in their own name

            5. ERA, which passed in Congress, and has to be seen as a victory in one sense, because it did pass in Congress, even though it is not now an amendment, since states did not ratify it in time. Why a victory? Military academies and other military arenas thought it would pass so they began to make changes that helped the position of women in the military