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Final Exam Review: US History II
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World War I KEY VOCABULARY:
NEUTRALITY
LUSITANIA
ZIMMERMANN NOTE (TELEGRAM)
GREAT MIGRATION
PROPAGANDA
KEY IDEAS:
1. What were the MAIN Causes of World War I?
2. Why did the United States shift from a policy of neutrality to a policy of engagement?
3. What specific action did the United States take to make sure it had enough troops for World War I?
4. How did new weapons change the nature of war during World War I?
5. What push factors and what pull factors contributed to the Great Migration?
6. What powers did the Espionage and the Sedition Acts give to the government during World War I?
7. What were the Court’s findings in Schneck v. United States?
8. Explain the main principles of the Fourteen Points.
9. What happened to the Treaty of Versailles in the United States? Why?
10. Who won World War I?
11. What changes did Americans make in their lives and in their jobs on the Home Front?
12. In what activities did women participate during World War I?
13. Explain the importance of Article X of the Versailles Treaty to the success of maintaining peace after WWI.
14. Explain the position of the Irreconcilables.
The 1920s KEY VOCABULARY:
PALMER RAIDS
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
JAZZ
DEMOBILIZATION
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND DUKE ELLINGTON
KEY IDEAS
1. What government restrictions and public responses were brought about by the increase in immigration after
World War I?
2. What is the difference between an anarchist, a communist and a socialist?
3. What was the goal of the following groups?
a. American Civil Liberties Union
b. League of Women Voters (ch 27)
c. Anti-Defamation League
d. Wobblies
4. What was the goal of
a. The Dawes Plan
b. The Kellogg-Briand Pact
5. Explain the economic philosophy of Presidents Harding and Coolidge.
6. What factors contributed to the economic boom of the 1920s?
7. What are the characteristics of a free enterprise system?
8. What factors contributed to the development of a consumer culture and national popular culture in the 1920s?
9. What reasons did traditionalists give for opposing prohibition?
10. What issue was central to the Scopes trial?
11. What reasons led people to move off of farms and into cities between 1900 and 1920?
GREAT DEPRESSION
KEY VOCABULARY:
Black Tuesday
Hoovervilles
Bonus Army
Rugged Individualism
New Deal
KEY IDEAS:
1. List and explain the causes of the Great Depression
2. What is a “bank run” and how did it lead to the banking crisis?
3. Provide examples of President Hoover’s conservative approach to solving the Great Depression.
4. Explain the historical performance of the U.S. economy from 1880-1929.
5. How did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act help lead to a worldwide economic depression?
6. Explain what happened during what is historically called the “First 100 Days”.
7. What were the 3 R’s in President Roosevelt’s New Deal? Explain what each “R” attempted to fix.
8. Explain the impact unemployment had on American families during the 1930s.
9. Explain the goal of public works projects.
10. What was the Dust Bowl and Great Flood of 1936? How did the government attempt to deal with each
problem?
11. Explain how the New Deal impacted unions.
12. Describe each of the following New Deal agencies:
a. Agricultural Adjustment Act
b. Civilian Conservation Corps
c. Works Progress Administration
d. Social Security Act
13. Was the New Deal successful in pulling the United States out of the Great Depression? Explain
World War II
KEY VOCABULARY:
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Munich Pact
Lend-lease Act
Executive Order
Blitzkrieg
Manhattan Project
KEY IDEAS:
1. What was the direct cause of World War II?
2. What did the Neutrality Act prevent the United States from doing? How did President Roosevelt get around this
law?
3. What event led the U.S. to enter World War II? In what year did the US enter the war?
4. Explain what happened to the GDP during WWII?
5. Explain how each of the following helped contribute to the war effort:
a. rationing
b. war bonds
c. price controls
d. victory gardens
e. Rosie the Riveter
6. The total cost of WWII was estimated to be $321 billion. How did the federal government pay for the cost of the
war?
7. What was Executive Order 9066 and who was affected by it?
8. What was the outcome of the Supreme Court Decision in Korematsu v. United States?
9. Explain how each of the following groups were effected by the war:
a. women:
b. African-Americans
c. Japanese-Americans
10. Explain the Allied plan to win WWII against Germany and Japan.
11. What was the significance of the following military events:
a. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
b. The Battle of Midway
c. D-Day Invasion
d. Battle of the Bulge
e. Dropping of Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
12. Explain the significance of V-E Day?
13. Explain the military strategy called Leapfrogging that was used against the Japanese.
14. Explain what the top secret project called the Manhattan Project was and how it helped to end the war.
CIVIL RIGHTS
KEY VOCABULARY:
Nonviolent resistance
Civil Disobedience
Affirmative Action
Freedom Rides
Black Panthers
Voting Rights Act of 1965
KEY IDEAS:
How did the following people contribute to the Civil Rights Movement?
-Rosa Parks
-Martin Luther King Jr.
-Malcolm X
-Jackie Robinson
Explain how Executive Order 9981 affected racial equality.
What was the result of the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education?
Explain how De Facto Segregation occurred in American society.
Explain how the median incomes differed between whites and non-whites in five southern cities.
What areas did the Civil Rights of 1964 protect against segregation?
Summarize what happened in Little Rock Arkansas?
Where did MLK Jr. make his famous “I Have a Dream” speech?
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