June 10

Final Review Sheet

FINAL REVIEW SHEET

The final will be over material covered this semester.  Below are key terms you will need to know as well as information in the chapters that we covered. 

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                 Bob Woodward                         Ed Kennedy

Spiro Agnew                 Henry Kissinger             John Mitchell                             Eugene McCarthy

Neil Armstrong              G. Gordon Liddy           John J. Sirica                            Michael Collins

June 5

Final Notebook Check Due Friday

1. Clinton Notes
2. 27.2 Questions
3. Bush Notes
4. 27.3 Questions
5. Middle East Map
6. Forrest Gump Questions

May 30 and June 2-5

Use the map on p. 136-137 to find the following:

Label the following countries: Iran, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan and Turkmenistan

Label the following cities: Cairo, Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem, Suez, Mecca, Aden, Baghdad, Tehran, Istanbul, Islamabad, Kabul, Ashgabat.

Also label: Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Mediterranean Sea, Caspian Sea, Tigris River, Euphrates River, Nile River, Suez Canal, Sinai Peninsula

Forrest Gump Movie Questions:  See me

May 29

27.3 Questions

Immigration patterns changed near the end of the twentieth century.

1. Where did most immigrants come from in the 1990’s?

2. How did the Immigration Act of 1965 help bring this about?

3. Where did many of the new immigrants settle?

4. What effect has the growing minority population had on politics?

Americans have struggled to make diversity work

5. What aspects of this struggle have led to controversy, and why?

6. Why have some people called for a tougher immigration policy?

7.  What is the purpose of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?

8.  What is the purpose of the World Trade Organization (WTO)?

9.  What is the purpose of the European Economic Community (EEC)?

10.  What were the goals of the European Union, NAFTA, and the WTO?

11.  What was the original goal of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?

May 28

Bush Notes: http://prezi.com/2cxmtq6fyvx7/george-w-bush/

Finish the summaries from yesterday (Chapter 27.2)

May 27

Chapter 27.2 World Events

Summarize the key events from each of the following countries/regions
Russia
Eastern Europe
South Africa
Yugoslavia
Northern Ireland
Israel and Palestine
Afghanistan
Iraq

May 21

Chapter 26 Exam
See me for makeup