Monday-Wednesday June 13-15

Final Exams

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!

Thursday/Friday June 9-10

FINAL REVIEW SHEET

The final will be over material covered this semester.  Below are ideas you will need to know.

JFK (Chapter 22)

Lee Harvey Oswald   Cuban Missile Crisis    Bay of Pigs         Quarantine               Zapruder

Medicare                       Fidel Castro                   New Frontier      Bobby Kennedy     Great Society   

Presidents (Chapter 24-27)

Jimmy Carter                  Ronald Reagan              George H.W. Bush    Bill Clinton   George W. Bush

Camp David Accords   Iran Hostage Crisis        Reaganomics             SDI                   Iran-Contra Affair

Persian Gulf War           Tiananmen Square       Whitewater            Iraq War

Vietnam (Chapter 24)

Ho Chi Minh Trail     Geneva Accords     Viet Cong            My Lai Massacre          

Generation gap           Tet Offensive           Napalm                New Left

Teach-in                        Vietminh                 Conscientious objector               escalation

Nixon Era (Chapter 25)

H. R. Haldeman    Mao Zedong          Woodward/Bernstein      CREEP        G. Gordon Liddy

Spiro Agnew         Henry Kissinger    John Mitchell                   Watergate    Plumbers

Tuesday/Wednesday June 7-8

Finished Forrest Gump

Final Review on Thursday/Friday

Monday June 6

Today we started Forrest Gump.  We will finish it on Tuesday/Wednesday and prepare for finals on Thursday/Friday.

Reminder: The LAST DAY to turn in makeup or or to makeup an exam is TOMORROW JUNE 7!!! 

Thursday/Friday June 2-3

Bush Notes

Ch 27 Questions

       1.       What happened during the 2000 Election?  Why was it close?

       2.       Explain President Bush’s educational policy.

       3.       What does the Clear Skies Act 2003 do?

       4.       What were Bush’s tax cuts?

       5.       Explain what happened on 9/11.  Who was responsible for this?

       6.       Explain what the War on Terror is.

       7.       What did the Iraq War accomplish?

       8.       Why did the United States go to war in Afghanistan?

       9.       When we think of Operation Iraqi Freedom, it is important to consider many ways that troops are attacked—what is an insurgent attack, for example?

       10.    What were the steps that led to the collapse of South African apartheid?  Who was released from prison in 1990?

       11.    How was Russia’s relationship with the United States in the early 2000’s?