History 17C: Final Examination Study Guide
DeAnza College
Summer 2015
August 6, 2015
Essay Question. Worth 10 points. Please bring a blue or green examination booklet to the examination (available at the campus bookstore--purchase before the day of the final).
You will be given one of the following questions on which to write an essay, approximately 300-500 words. You will not have a choice.
1. Why did America lose the Vietnam War?
2. Why did Richard Nixon get himself so entangled in Watergate?
3. What assumptions guided Ronald Reagan's foreign policy?
4. Describe how President George W. Bush responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Why did the United States invade Iraq?
Multiple Choice Questions—Worth 10 points
You will be given 20 multiple choice questions, drawn from Chapters 28, 29, and 30 (5th edition). (Chapters 27, 28, and 29, 6th edition.) Please bring a scantron and a #2 pencil.