Download US History/Geography Final Exam 2011 REVIEW Directions: Gather

US History/Geography Final Exam 2011 REVIEW
Directions: Gather all of your materials and study guides you have used
this semester. As you do the study guide, prepare a “bootleg” note card
with the information you are not as familiar with. You can use it on the
test!
Hint: Find your powerpoints, vocabulary assignments, tests, and study
guides...they will help you more than the book!
Section I: The Great Depression (Chapter 15-16)
1. What term is used to describe President Roosevelt’s relief, recovery, and reform
programs designed to end the Depression?
2. What is the term used to describe the central and southern Great Plains during the
1930’s, when the region sustained a period of drought and storms?
3. What is the term used to describe a makeshift homeless shelter during the early
years of the Great Depression?
4. What is the collapse of the American stock market in 1929 called?
5. What system was established to provide financial security (old-age pensions,
disability payments), in the form of regular payments, to people who cannot support
themselves?
6. What is the measure of the average stock prices of major industries called?
7. What did the Great Crash led to?
8. During the Depression, what were working women accused of?
9. What effect did the New Deal have on the size of the federal government?
10. What did Hoover and MacArthur do to get the Bonus Army protesters to leave the
capitol area of Washington D.C.?
11. What gave rise to the homelessness problem during the Great Depression?
12. What happened to many members of minority groups during the Great Depression?
13. What was the result of the Hawley Smoot Tariff?
14. What agency would assist struggling homeowners in refinancing mortgages to avoid
foreclosure?
15. What were the effects on farmers during the Depression?
16. This New Deal Agency protects personal savings in banks.
17. What effect did the Depression have on men in particular?
18. What problem did the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) attempt to address?
Business Cycle
19. Identify the expansion, peak, contraction, and the trough on the business cycle.
Expansion
20. At what point in the business cycle was the U.S. economy just before the Great
Crash occurred?
21. What does the line represent?
22. Using the graph, what year does it appear the Great Depression started?
23. How many bank suspensions were there in 1932?
24. How many people were unemployed in 1929?
25. How many people were unemployed in 1933?
Section II: WWII (Chapter 17 and 18)
26. Which countries made up the Axis Powers during WWII?
27. Which countries made up the Allied Powers during WWII?
28. What type of government dominates every aspect of life, using terror to suppress
individual rights and silence all forms of opposition?
29. What did Hitler believe was completely unfair to the country of Germany?
30. What were 3 things that Hitler suggested in his book “Mein Kampf?”
31. Before WWII other countries tried to keep the peace by giving in to Hitler’s
demands. What is this called?
32. Before invading Poland, Hitler made a non-aggression pact with which country?
33. Why didn’t France’s Maginot Line work?
34. What did the southern region of France, called Vichy, do after Germany invaded
France?
35. What did the United States focus mostly on during the 1930s?
36. Shortly after Congress declared war on Japan, which two countries declared war on
the US?
37. What was the main reason the Japanese bombed the location of Pearl Harbor?
38. What happened as a result of war production in the U.S.?
39. What role did women play in the war effort?
40. What prevented Americans from spending the high wages they earned in wartime
jobs?
41. Who were the “Code Talkers?” How did they help the war effort?
42. The complicated Allied invasion to take Europe back from Axis Powers is called
what?
43. Where were the Germans finally stopped in their advance on the Soviet Union?
44. What did the Allies decide to do with Germany after their surrender?
45. What are some examples of the early efforts on the part of the Nazis to persecute
Germany’s Jews?
46. What was Kristallnacht?
47. What action did the Nazis take to strip Jews of their German citizenship?
48. What was the “final solution to the Jewish question,” announced by the Nazis at the
Wannsee Conference?
49. What important idea came out of the Nuremberg Trials?
50. What was significant about the Battle of Midway?
51. When the Japanese advanced against his troops, what was General MacArthur
forced to do?
52. Through their island-hopping strategy, the Allies put themselves in a position to do
what?
53. The goal of the Manhattan Project was to do what?
54. How were African Americans treated during WWII? Give some examples.
55. What did the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) believe the best method to protest
was?
56. What happened to many Japanese Americans during WWII?
57. After the war, what were women expected to do?
58. During which year did production of passenger cars undergo the steepest drop?
59. About how many military aircraft were produced in 1944?
60. What was the general relationship between auto production and military aircraft
production in the war years?
Section III: Cold War (Chapter 19 and Ch. 22 Sec. 3)
61. What were some of the major differences between the United States and the Soviet
Union during the Cold War?
62. What was the U.S. policy of resistance to Soviet attempts at expanding communism
called?
63. What was the competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for power and
influence in the world called?
64. How did President Truman react to the Soviet Unions test of their atomic bomb?
65. What were the main goals of the Marshall Plan?
66. Why did a number of nations join NATO in 1949?
67. What vocabulary term are NATO and the Warsaw Pact examples of?
68. What was the 1950 conflict in Southeast Asia, aimed at stopping the spread of
communism, called?
69. At the end of World War II, what was Korea divided into?
70. What was the final resolution of the Korean War?
71. What is the term for a contest between nations to gain weapons superiority?
72. What impact did Joseph McCarthy have on American society?
73. What specifically happened that made Senator McCarthy’s power fade?
74. What was the 1962 standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that could have
led to nuclear war called?
75. How did the Soviets provoke Kennedy to quarantine Cuba?
76. What was President Johnson’s main objective in Vietnam?
77. What did Congress do after the North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin?
78. What vocabulary term is best described by the cartoon above?
79. What do you think caused the drop in American military spending in 1945?
80. How much did U.S. military spending increase between 1947 and 1961?
Section IV: The Civil Rights Movement
81. What did the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education end?
82. During the 1920s and 1930s what did the NAACP have success in challenging?
83. What was the protest against racial segregation in the transportation system in
Birmingham, Alabama called?
84. What term means the process of bringing people of different races together?
85. What role did CORE play in the Civil Rights movment?
86. What did Martin Luther King, Jr., who was influenced by Gandhi, believe in?
87. What were the Freedom Rides were organized to test?
88. How did James Meredith advance the cause of civil rights movement?
89. What was the highlight of the March on Washington?
90. What law made discrimination illegal in voting, schools and employment?
91. Freedom Summer and the Selma March both called attention to African Americans’
lack of what?
92. Unlike early civil rights leaders, what did Malcolm X strongly believe?
93. The early civil rights movement focused on battling racial separation created by law,
but couldn’t prevent what other type of segregation?
94. What were some of the results and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement?
95. What did the women’s movement borrowed legal tools and inspiration from?
96. What did the women’s movement of the 1960s “grow out of?
97. What type of discrimination were Mexican Americans fighting during the 1960s?
98. What was he goal of the American Indian Movement?
99. During the 1960s counterculture how did men and women change their style?
100.
What did 400,000 people gather at the Woodstock Festival for?