Study Guide for History 151
Final Exam
Prof. Addison
Your final exam will consist of approximately 50 multiple choice questions, 5 ID’s from the possible choice of ten, and two or three essay questions (you will answer one). Additionally, you will have one short-answer response to the outside books. Your essays should incorporate your evidence from Coffin, Stacy, Lerner et al, and the two books [Solzhenitsyn and Wiesel], as well as the films shown in class. Your essay should focus on analysis and engagement of the texts to demonstrate your mastery of the question(s) and issue(s).
Your bluebook (required whether you do the essay or multiple choice, because you will have to include the IDs and book response questions) must be turned in ahead of time, blank, and returned to you with my stamp on it. Bluebooks absent the authentication marks will not be accepted. That means you will receive an F. NB: You do NOT have to do an essay exam if you have not done one already; that is a typo in my syllabus. You are perfectly free to do the m/c if you so choose. However, you MUST do the written section on the readings, as well as the ID's.
Should you WISH to send me suggested essay topics, please do so very soon, as I must write the exam. Any reasonable questions that are sent to me, whether accepted or not, will be posted on the website for your consideration. I reserve the right to modify or clarify any publicly posted questions.
Your exam covers from chapter 25-29; essentially End of WW II through the Cold War. The emphasis will more likely be on the 20th century and how things changed and why. However, in multiple choice, it will have to cover a broad spectrum of topics.
Topics to be included:
Socialism, Communism, Fascism
Russia in the 19th c. and early 20th c.
World War I: Causes and effects
Treaty of
Bolshevik Revolution and start of the Soviet Party
Stalin’s rise to power; Hitler’s rise to power
World War II: Causes and effects (how is it different from wwI)
Genocide and internment camps
The Emergence of the Cold War
The
Decolonization
Red Scare and Containment
Reaganomics
The Fall of Communism