Outline Notes

The following links (to PDF files) provide terms, sample exam questions, a general lecture outline, and current PowerPoint notes for the presentations made in Dr. David Blanke's HIST-1302, U.S. Survey Since 1865 course. They should be used as supplements to your normal note-taking. A CD-ROM copy of the actual presentations is on reserve at the Bell Library. The following topics correspond to those in the syllabus:

• Reconstruction I
• Reconstruction II
• The West
• Basics of Industrial Capitalism
• Gilded Age I
• Gilded Age II
• Gilded Age Politics
• Exam #1 Study Guide
• Progressivism
• Nativism, Jim Crow, and Progressive Foreign Policy
• Modern Popular Culture (and what the heck is "Post-Modernism"?)
• The Great Depression and The New Deal
• WWII
• Exam #2 Study Guide
• Domestic and International Cold War
• Modern Civil Rights
• The 1960s
• Viet Nam
• Nixon and Watergate
• The New Right
• Exam #3 (Final Exam) Study Guide

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