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History 17B: Fall 2017, Final Examination

Instructions: Pick two questions from following below. Write a typed, double spaced, two page essay response (minimum) for each question. Please footnote using the Chicago Manual of Style, using the following source: The American Promise, Vol. 2, Reading the American, Vol.2. Do not use Internet sites, period! This will lead to the student earning a zero on the examination.

1. Was the Kennedy presidency a continuation of the Eisenhower presidency? Explain.

2. Explain how Democratic Party liberalism went beyond the New Deal via “Great Society” policies of the Johnson administration?

3. Compare the transformation of Republican Party (from center-right to right) and the Democratic Party (center-left to centrist) from 1980 to the present day. Explain what caused this transformation.

4. Explain how the policies of Ronald Reagan began the reversal of the New Deal/Great Society.

5. Explain the continuity of the U.S. policy towards Vietnam from Eisenhower to Nixon.

6. Why was Watergate a constitutional crisis in the United States?

7. How can the Clinton presidency be categorized, liberal, conservative or something else?

8. Explain how lying to justify going to war is a continuity in US foreign policy from

Vietnam War to the Iraq War.

9. Explain how the federal government eroded the 1^st Amendment since WW2.