FINAL terms & essay topics

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Connection between USSR and US?

As we know, 11/10 marked the anniversay of the Berlin Wall coming down. The Daily Show did a great segment about this. The connections between the USSR and US were really funny and really well done. Click here to see the entire video- the particular segment I'm speaking about beings at the 9:30 mark.

Gerald Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" Speech

A couple of students asked last night about Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" campaign. Here is the speech in which he unveiled the program.

LBJ talks about his bunghole

midterm review terms

The midterm will contain 12 ID terms from the following list:

"A Cross of Gold"

George B. Cortelyou

"Muckrakers"

Great White Fleet

Underwood Tariff

Henry Cabot Lodge

A. Mitchell Palmer

The Dawes Plan

The Wagner Act

The "Court Packing Crisis"

Robert Oppenheimer

Berlin Airlift

NSC-68

"The New Look"

Guatemala, 1954

"A Cross of Iron"

Strategic Hamlets



It will also include an essay on one of the following themes.


Essay Topics:

Compare and contrast the foreign policy initiatives of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assess the effectiveness of each.

Analyze the concept of the the "Liberal Consensus" and describe its evolution during the first two decades of the Cold War (1945-65).

washington now vs. washington in 1966

Here is a link to the article in Newsweek I spoke about in class.
obama and LBJ

--arielle adler

Secret Lives of the Presidents - NYT

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/secret-lives-of-the-presidents/