Download US History Final Study Guide

US History Final Study Guide
1. What four political reforms did Progressives back?
2. What did Roosevelt mean by a “square deal”?
3. Why was the Panama Canal built?
4. In the Spanish-American War, Spain and America were fighting over which country?
5. What policies was President Theodore Roosevelt famous for?
6. Voters can remove an elected official from office with a?
7. Great Britain, France, Serbia, and Russia were part of an alliance during World War I called
the?
8. What group failed after World War I because the United States refused to be part of it?
9. Woodrow Wilson was not invited to the peace conference in France that resulted in which
treaty?
10. Prohibition was a time where it was illegal to do what?
11. When the 19th Amendment was ratified (approved), women earned the right to do what?
12. In the 1920’s, what new invention brought news from faraway places into the homes of
millions of Americans?
13. The Great Depression began with which event?
14. During the Great Depression, _______________ was high because there were no jobs.
15. Which president introduced the New Deal which helped bring an end to the Great
Depression?
16. _______________ and his Nazi party attempted to make Germany the ruler of all Europe.
17. The American government forced thousands of Japanese Americans into ______________.
18. The Allied invasion of France began on June 6, 1944, which was called?
19. The _____________________ of gasoline, sugar, meat, and other products was one way
Americans at home helped the war effort.
20. After Hitler invaded_____________________, Stalin broke his agreement with Germany and
joined the Allies.
21. Congress passed the __________________ to help European countries fight Germany.
22. Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in __________________ to form an agreement for their
roles after the war.
23. The assassination of who started World War I?
24. Why did Germany think that the U.S. was not being neutral before the U.S. officially entered
the World War I?
25. What was the final push for U.S. to enter World War I?
26. What things did Germany have to agree to do after the World War I?
27. True or false, the Treaty of Versailles brought about a fair and just peace?
28. True or false, the Treaty of Versailles was ratified by Congress?
29. True or false, Senators believed that being part of the League of Nations would force the U.S.
into too many foreign wars?
30. True or false, Germany was not invited to participate in the writing of the Treaty of
Versailles?
31. The ________________________ of 1929 hurt the American economy.
32. Cutting jobs because a company can’t afford to pay workers is called a _________________.
33. President ______________________ was only president 1 year and was blamed for
depression.
34. Making too many goods is called ________________________________.
35. Buy now, pay later is called __________________________.
36. American families stood in _________________ for free food.
37. A _________________________ (legally delaying something) put on war debt payments
owed to US from foreign countries; hoped they would buy US products.
38. 1932 election was won by Democrat ___________________________.
39. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” covered three areas: ________________________,
____________________, and _____________________.
40. A national _________________________ prevented people from taking all their money out
of their bank, causing bank to fail.
41. One of the main causes of World War II was that ____________________ were occurring all
over the world.
42. One who believes that the state or union is more important than the individual is a
________________.
43. The fascist leader that took over Italy was ___________________________.
44. Prior to World War II, Germany was experiencing both a depression and
__________________, or a steady rise in the price of goods.
45. Which neighboring country did Japan attack because it needed its rich coal and iron?
46. Hitler had the goal of creating a third ____________________ in Europe by bringing
together the German-speaking people of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland under German rule.
47. The leaders of Great Britain and France were so afraid of going to war again, that they
followed a policy of ____________________ and gave Hitler the Sudetenland after he took
Austria.
48.. In 1939, Germany set up death camps for the Jews as part of Hitler’s “final solution”, where
the Nazis planned to murder every Jew whom they could find. This has become known as the
__________________.
49. Great Britain and France both declared war on Germany after Hitler broke his promise and
attacked the country of ______________________.
50. The United States began to prepare for entering the war by passing the Selective Service Act
which used a ______________ system to decide which men between the ages of twenty-one and
thirty-five would serve one year in the military.
51. When United States punished Japan by not selling them oil and steel because Japan took a lot
of land from China, Japan got revenge by ___________________.
52. ___________________ in the United States also helped during the war effort by replacing
men in the workforce and learned to build planes, tanks, and even joined the army.
53. Because the president was afraid that Japanese citizens in the U.S would help Japan, he order
110,000 Japanese-Americans be placed in _________________________.
54. The day that United States led an invasion off the coast of Normandy to trap the German
troops and lead the way to victory is known as __________________.
55. To end the war with Japan quickly and to prove to the world United States’ military power,
the U.S. dropped an ______________________ Hiroshima and Nagasaki.