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AP United States History
Unit 4 Reading Chart: World War I, The 1920s, & The Great Depression
Presidential Flippers: From Wilson’s second term through FDR’s second term in office. This will count as a part of the Unit 4 Coursework grade.
Unit 4 Coursework: You may choose to make flashcards that identify the historical significance for the 160 terms OR you may answer all of the research notes for the
unit OR you may take the online practice tests for the textbook. For the tests, you will need to complete five chapters and print out your scores which will become your
grade. You are welcome to retake the practice tests as many times as you would like in order to earn the highest grade possible.
Unit Charts: Please complete the charts that are on the website. Each chart will be graded as a class participation grade.
4.1: World War I
4.2: The 1920s
4.3: Great Depression & the New Deal
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Chapters 34 & 35
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Militarism,
Alliance System,
Imperialism,
Nationalism,
Woodrow Wilson,
Allies,
Central Powers,
long-term and
immediate causes of
WWI,
Archduke Franz
Ferdinand,
neutrality,
Lusitania,
war propaganda,
preparedness,
William Jennings
Bryan,
Jane Addams,
Jeannette Rankin,
election of 1916,
submarine attacks,
Zimmermann
Telegram,
Russian Revolution,
Bernard Baruch,
Hoover,
Taft,
War Industries Board,
Espionage and
Sedition Acts,
Shenck v. United
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Selective Service Act,
segregated military,
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DuBois,
trench warfare,
poison gas,
AEF,
Pershing,
Fourteen Points,
League of Nations,
Treaty of Versailles,
The Big Four,
reparations,
war-guilt clause,
Henry Cabot Lodge
Committee on Public
Information
Federal Trade
Commission
Wobblies
Eugene V. Debs
Creel Committee
Article X
Henry Cabot Lodge
Irrecincilables
Reservationists
Victoriano Huerta
Jeannette Rankin
William G. McAdoo
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communism,
Red Scare,
Palmer Raids,
A. Mitchell Palmer
anarchists,
Sacco and Vanzetti,
quota system,
nativism,
Ku Klux Klan,
“Birth of a Nation”
Warren G. Harding,
“Return to Normalcy”
Andrew Mellon,
Eugene V. Debs,
Fordney-McCumber
Tariff,
Teapot Dome
scandal,
Albert Fall
Calvin Coolidge,
economic growth
(boom),
consumerism,
Frederick W. Taylor,
Henry Ford,
impact of the
automobile,
farm problems,
John L. Lewis,
The Jazz Age,
sports superstars,
Charles Lindbergh,
“Spirit of St. Louis”
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gender roles,
education,
fundamentalism,
Scopes Trial,
“lost generation,”
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Earnest Hemingway
Harlem
Renaissance,
Langston Hughes,
Zora Neale Hurston,
Great Migration,
race riots,
Marcus Garvey,
UNIA
“Back to Africa
Movement”
Prohibition,
Al Capone &
organized crime,
isolationism,
Washington
Conference,
Kellogg-Briand Pact
National Origins Act
Frank Lloyd Wright
Georgia O’Keeffe
Thomas Hart Benton
Edward Hopper
H.L. Menken
Margaret Sanger
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boom & bust,
Black Tuesday,
income distribution,
speculation,
buying on a margin,
Herbert Hoover,
Great Depression,
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Act,
debt moratorium,
Federal Farm Board,
RFC,
Bonus March,
election of 1932,
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
New Deal,
Eleanor Roosevelt,
3 R’s,
brain trust,
Keynesian economics
first hundred days,
bank holiday,
repeal of Prohibition,
Alphabet Soup
Agencies –
FDIC, HOLC, PWA,
CCC, TVA, NRA,
AAA, CWA, SEC,
FHA, WPA, RA,
National Labor
Relations Act
Wagner Act
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Act
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Recovery Act
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139. Father Charles E.
Coughlin,
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Townsend,
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142. Huey Long,
143. Alfred E. Smith,
144. Roosevelt & the
Supreme Court,
145. Frances Perkins,
146. Mary McLeod
Bethune,
147. Marian Anderson,
148. Philip Randolph,
149. John Collier,
150. New Deal coalition,
151. Dust Bowl,
152. shantytowns,
153. soup kitchens,
154. bread lines
155. Scottsboro Boys
156. Schetchter v. US (sick
chicken case)
157. Elijah Mohammad
158. John Steinbeck
159. Indian Reorganization
Act
160. Congress of Industrial
Organization
Unit 4 Research Notes:
4.1: WWI
1. How and why did WWI begin?
2. How did the US help the Allies win WWI?
3. Why did President Woodrow Wilson decide to bring the US into the war in 1917?
4. Why and in what ways was WWI considered a “total war”?
5. What was the economic legacy of WWI?
6. How did the federal government’s powers expand during WWI?
7. How did the war affect economic affairs and social relationships in America?
8. Why were there large-scale violations of civil liberties during WWI?
9. What were dome of the changes in Europe after WWI? Look at social, political, and economic alterations.
10. What caused racial clashes in the US from 1917 to 1919?
11. How and why did President Wilson attempt to shape the Treaty of Versailles?
12. Why did the Settlement of 1919-20 fail to achieve a lasting piece in America and Europe?
4.2: The 1920s
13. What was America’s foreign policy during the 1920s?
14. In what ways did America not adhere to that policy?
15. What were the origins of the Red Scare?
16. Explain the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s.
17. Why was the 18th Amendment adopted?
18. Why did the American people embrace the Republican’s “politics of normalcy” in the 1920s?
19. How did the automobile epitomize the new values of mass consumption and the changing patterns of leisure in America?
20. How and why did business and government become allies in the 1920s?
a. How did this partnership affect the American economy?
21. Why did a mass national culture develop during the 1920s?
22. How and why did cultural conflict break out in response to new secular values of the decade?
23. How did intellectuals, writers, and artists react to the postwar era and what caused these reactions?
4.3: The Great Depression
24. Why did the Great Depression occur? How did it initially affect the US?
25. How did President Herbert Hoover respond to the economic crisis?
26. What were the most dramatic episodes of protest during the Hoover years, and what do they tell us about the depression?
27. How and why did the federal government influence American economic and political issues during the 1920s?
28. In what ways did the “Hundred Days” legislation deal with critical areas of the depressed economy?
29. How did President Roosevelt respond to the economic depression, and why did he respond in this manner?
a. What were the primary differences between the first and second new deal?
b. Define the criticism of the New Deal from the political right and left. Who were the New Deal’s major critics, and what were their alternative programs?
30. How did labor unions respond to the New Deal?
31. What impact did the New Deal have on organized labor, women, and racial and ethnic minorities?
32. Under the New Deal, the government’s involvement in the environment and in the arts was unprecedented. What were the major components of this new
departure?
33. How did the New Deal affect American society both during the 1930s and thereafter?
34. Why did the New Deal reach a stalemate?
35. Describe Keynesian economics. How was this important to the New Deal?
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