Download US History I: Final Study Guide Test 20/21: The Roaring Twenties

US History I: Final
Study Guide
Test 20/21: The Roaring
Twenties
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Airplanes
Immigration policies
Lost Generation
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz
Scopes Trial
Prohibition
Palmer Raids
Test 22/23 The Great
Depression
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Goals of the New Deal
Causes and effects of Great
Depression
Bonus Army
CWA
SSS
NYA
WPA
Social Security
Buying on Margin
Hoover and Depression
Farming Crisis
Banking Crisis
Test 24: WWII: The
Beginning
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Miracle of Dunkirk
Blitzkrieg
Holocaust
Nanking
Nonagression Pact
Munich Pact
Battle of Britain
Start of WWII
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Lend-Lease Act
Test 25: World War II
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Battle of Bulge
D-Day
V-E Day
Atomic Bomb
Nisei
Battle of the Atlantic
GI Bill of Rights
WACs
Essay Question Possibilities
Answer Each of the Following Essay Questions on looseleaf. Be sure to number
the essays!
TEST ONE: CHAPTER 20/21
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Describe one factor that you think worked to divide America and one factor that worked to unify
America in the 1920s. Explain your choices.
Think About:
i. popular culture and mass media
ii. changes in literary culture
iii. fundamentalism and science
iv. urban and rural lifestyles
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What technological invention or advancement of the 1920s had the biggest impact on the
life of the average American? Explain your opinion.
Think About:
i. advances in the fields of business, transportation, power, and machinery
ii. the basic needs of Americans
iii. the conveniences offered by new technology
TEST TWO: CHAPTER 22/23
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In what ways was the economic prosperity of the 1920s genuine, and in what ways did
this prosperity disguise serious economic problems? Do you think most people perceived
the underlying problems in the economy? Why or why not?
Think About:
iv. The performance of the stock market
v. The availability of consumer goods
vi. People’s spending patterns
vii. Influences on public opinion
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What role did the arts play in America in the 1930s? How did the Roosevelt
administration support the arts?
Think About:
viii. Visual arts and the Great Depression
ix. Leisure activities of Americans
x. Special branches of the WPA
TEST THREE: CHAPTER 24
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Outline Japanese involvement and aims in World War II. Explain how the United States
became a target for Japan.
Think About:
xi. the goals of the Japanese government
xii. the actions and reactions of the United States in relation to Japan.
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What expectations about the postwar world were expressed in the Atlantic Charter?
Think About:
xiii. The pledges made in the charter.
xiv. the circumstances that would allow those pledges to be fulfilled.
TEST FOUR: CHAPTER 25
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What opportunities, adjustments, and tensions did the war create for Americans? Do you
think most of the changes were positive for American society?
Think About:
xv. economic gains
xvi. return of servicemen to civilian life
xvii. discrimination experienced by minorities
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What effect did World War II have on the lives of women and African Americans?
Think About:
xviii. Job opportunities created by the way
xix. Military service
US I STUDY GUIDE
KEY TERMS
Scopes Trial
Louis Armstrong
Speakeasies
Bonus Army
Nicola Sacco
Harlem Renaissance
General A. Mitchell Palmer
Truman
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Great Migration
Civilian Conservation Corps
1.) _________________________________ and 2.)__________________________________ Charged
with, and convicted of robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree,
Massachusetts.
3.)___________________________________Believed that he needed to protect the American people
from political radicals
4.) __________________________________His aim in deciding to drop the atomic bomb was to end the
war and save American lives
5.) _________________________________To obtain liquor illegally drinkers went underground to
these hidden nightclubs or saloons
6.) __________________________________A fight over evolution and the role of science and religion
in public schools and in American society.
7.) __________________________________One of the most important and influential musicians in the
history of jazz
8.) __________________________________Literary and artistic movement celebrating AfricanAmerican culture
9.) __________________________________Put young men aged 18-25 to work building roads,
developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-controlled projects
10.) __________________________________WWI veterans and their families that marched on
Washington
11.) ___________________________________Between 1910-1920, hundreds of thousands of African
Americans uprooted themselves from their homes in the South and moved north to the big cities in
search of jobs
New Deal
Stock on margin
Social Security Act
genocide
Herbert Hoover
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
blitzkrieg
Lend-Lease Act
Internment
GI Bill of Rights
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day
D-Day
Japan
12._____________________________________Marked the last German offensive
13._____________________________________Period from 1929-1940 in which the economy
plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed; Tariffs on foreign goods, the availability of easy credit, and
a crisis in the farm sector were all causes of this
14.______________________________________”A new deal for the American people”; policies
focused on 3 general goals: relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform
15.______________________________________May 8, 1945; the day Germany surrendered; Victory in
Europe Day
16.______________________________________This German military strategy depended on surprise
and overwhelming force
17.______________________________________Deliberate extermination of a specific group of people
18.______________________________________Borrowing money to help pay for stock
19.______________________________________One of the most important achievements of the New
Deal passed in 1935; 3 major parts include: old-age insurance for retirees 65 or older and their spouses,
unemployment compensation system, and aid to families with dependent children and people with
disabilities
20. ______________________________________Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe
21._______________________________________Law passed in 1941 that allowed the US to ship arms
and other supplies, without immediate payment to nations fighting the Axis powers.
22.________________________________________Confinement or restriction in movement, especially
under wartime conditions
23._________________________________________the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act to help ease
the transition of returning servicemen to civilian life; provided education and training for veterans, paid
for by the federal government
24._________________________________________The actions of this country finally forced the US to
enter the war
25._________________________________________His approach to the economy during the
Depression was based on a belief in rugged individualism
26._________________________________________Drought and high winds were causes of thLook at
the following political cartoon
II. Answer each of the bullets for EACH political cartoon.
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What is this cartoon/ painting depicting?
What is the background behind the cartoon?
What is the message behind this cartoon? How accurate is this cartoon?
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