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U.S. History
Goal 10 Practice
World War II/ Cold War
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Date
Period
SECTION TWO
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to 10.03: Describe and analyze the effects of the war on
American economic, social and political life.
SECTION ONE
will be able to 10.01/10.02: Elaborate on the causes of World
War II and America’s reasons for entering the war as well as identifying turning points of
the war.
1.
What did Americans do to discriminate against Japanese Americans during World War
II? [p. 800]
2.
What was the nickname given to the women who worked in the war factories during
World War II? [NIB]
3.
What services were provided to servicemen with the G.I. Bill? [p. 798]
4.
What is rationing? Give three wartime examples of rationing. [p. 774]
OBJECTIVE: Students
1.
Define appeasement. At what major conference was this strategy used with Hitler?
[p. 743-744]
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What country joined Germany in a non-aggression pact? [p. 745]
3.
Hitler invaded what country to start World War II? [p. 745]
4.
Who were the leaders of the Axis Powers? [p. 757]
5. Identify the significance of the Korematsu v. United States court case. [p. 802]
6. What name was given to the huge increase in population that took place in the years
following World War II? [p. 849-850]
5. Why did America agree to the Lend-Lease Act? [p. 758]
6. What incident formally forced the United States to enter World War II? [p. 761]
7.
SECTION THREE
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to10.04/10.05: Elaborate on the
What was the purpose of America issuing the Neutrality Acts, Quarantine Speech and
signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact? [p. 740-741]
8. Complete the following chart: [p. 777, 780, 785]
Front or Theater of Fighting
Turning Point Battle
Western Front
North Africa
El Alamein
Eastern Front
Pacific
changes in foreign policy at the beginning of the Cold War and assess the role of
world organizations in keeping international peace.
1. Define containment. [p. 811]
Specific Strategy Used
Traditional warfare
Traditional warfare
2.
What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan? [p. 812]
3.
What two nations were to be protected by the Truman Doctrine? [p. 812]
4.
What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift? [p. 813]
5.
What peace organization took the place of the League of Nations but did so in a more
effective manner that established a Security Council and General Assembly for all
countries to join? [p. 809]
Scorched Earth Policy
9. What did the Manhattan Project contribute to the war effort? What inventor is
credited with this contribution? [p. 789]
10. Why was dropping atomic bombs on Japan a more favorable option for the Allied
powers than a ground invasion? [p. 789]
6. Who did President Truman fire because he wanted to escalate the Korean War to the
level of nuclear war? [p. 820]
7. How did the Korean War end? [p. 821]
8. What was the purpose of NATO? [p. 814]
7.
9. What was the Soviet Union’s version of NATO? [p. 830]
Describe how each of the following New Deal programs dealt with concerns from the
Depression:
SECTION FIVE/INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF GOAL 4
New Deal Program
TVA
10. Identify the Eisenhower Doctrine. [p. 831]
How it dealt with the Great Depression
AAA
11. Describe the U-2 Incident. [p.832-833]
SEC
12. What was the purpose of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion? [p. 880]
FDIC
13. What led to the Cuban Missile Crisis? [p. 880-882]
Social Security
SECTION FOUR/ DISTRIBUTIVE PRACTICE OF GOALS 8 & 9
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to (Goal 8) Analyze United States involvement in World War
I and the war’s influence on international affairs during the 1920s.
(Goal 9): Appraise the economic, social, and political changes of the decades of the 1920s and
1930s.
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3.
List and describe three reasons why America could no longer remain neutral during
World War I.
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What was Wilson’s objective with the Fourteen Points?
How did the American public and Senate respond to the Treaty of Versailles and
League of Nations?
4. What are two reasons why the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929?
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5. Other than the stock market crash, list and describe three other reasons why the
Great Depression occurred in the 1930s.
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5. What was the 18th Amendment and what impact did it have on American society in
general?
6.
What major court case witnessed America’s struggle with Fundamentalism and new
ways of thinking such as Evolutionary Theories?
OBJECTIVE:
Students will be able to evaluate the great westward movement and assess the impact
of the agricultural revolution on the nation. (Goal 4)
1.
What is the Homestead Act?
2.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
3. Who was the leader of the Nez Perce tribe that led them into conflict and later
surrendered, vowing “I will fight no more forever.”?
4. What was the significance of the Battle of Little Bighorn?
5. What did Helen Hunt Jackson mean when she called this period “a Century of
Dishonor”?
6.
Why did William McKinley win the presidential election of 1896?
7.
What was the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act?