Essay (50 points) You will write an essay that explores the given topic, one of the two listed below. It should be a complete essay, including an introduction, a conclusion, and evidence paragraphs, in the traditional 5 or 6 paragraph format. Because you will have access to your notes, I will be expecting clear and specific examples from class to support your ideas.

1) Who started the Cold War? What actions did the USA take that contributed to the tension? What was their motivation? What actions did the USSR take that contributed to the tension? What was their motivation? Was the Cold War avoidable?

2) The Cold War had a profound effect on America over more than 40 years, not just in foreign policy but in domestic affairs as well. Explain some of these changes the conflict brought about in social, economic, and political terms.

Use the following terms to study for the exam. The ID terms will be drawn directly from this list, while studying the terms and their connections to one another will assist you in the other portions of the exam:

Sharecropping Chinese Exclusion Act Late-19th Century

Immigration
Labor Unions
People’s Party Spanish-American War Imperialism Progressivism

World War I
League of Nations The 1st Red Scare Harlem Renaissance Great Depression New Deal Isolationism
World War II Japanese Internment The “Iron Curtain” the “Long Telegram” Domino Theory

Marshall Plan
Mutually Assured Destruction McCarthyism
Korean War
GI Bill of Rights
Montgomery Bus Boycotts Martin Luther King, Jr. Cuban Missile Crisis
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Vietnam War Protests “Vietnamization”
Kent State Massacre Richard Nixon
The Silent Majority
Detente
Stagflation
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Great Communicator /

Teflon President Iran-Contra Affair The “Evil Empire”

Gorbachev
Fall of the Berlin Wall Dissolving of the Soviet

Union
Saddam Hussein The First Gulf War Globalization
Bill Clinton Election of 2000 Al Queda
The War on Terror Bush Doctrine