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U.S. History II Midterm Exam Study Guide
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80 Multiple Choice questions
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30 Matching questions
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10 What does NOT belong questions
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40 Vocabulary terms (8 sections)
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160 questions in total at ½ point each = 80 points
You are also required to complete a five paragraph essay that is worth 20 points!
Chapter 19: End of World War I
What happened on November 11, 1918?
What was the purpose of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
What is the name of the world organization created by Wilson in his Fourteen Points?
Why did the U.S. Congress reject American involvement n the League of Nations?
What countries were in attendance to create and sign the Treaty of Versailles?
What are some of the clauses within the Treaty of Versailles?
How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany?
What are some of the new nations formed in Europe after WWI?
Why was there a decrease in Union enrollment during the 1920s?
Chapter 20: The Roaring 20’s
Farming Conditions of the 1920s
A Superficial Prosperity
Installment Plan
Buying on Margin
Speculation
Chapter 21: The Great Depression
Causes of the Great Depression
Overproduction in Industry
Overproduction of farm goods
Decrease in farm prices
Consumer spending
Credit
Unequal distribution of wealth
Rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer
Stock Market
Buying on margin
Speculation
Stock prices increased
Black Tuesday
When?
What happened?
Great Depression
Shantytowns
Soup kitchens and bread lines
Dust Bowl
Causes?
Direct Relief
The effect on the American family
Men
Women
Children
Herbert Hoover
Trickle Down Theory
Laissez faire
Asked businesses not to lay off workers
Public Works Projects
Boulder Dam
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Bonus Army
Who?
Patman Bill
Effect on Hoover’s presidency
Chapter 22: FDR & the New Deal
New Deal
Hundred Days
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Works Progress Administration
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Federal Securities Act
Glass Steagall Banking Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Agricultural Adjustment Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Fireside Chats
Bank Holiday
Court Packing Bill
Why did FDR propose this bill?
What New Deal legislation was found unconstitutional?
Attack on FDR and New Deal
Why?
Second New Deal
Works Progress Administration
National Youth Administration
Social Security Act
Chapter 23 & 24: World War II
Totalitarianism
Democracy
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
Joseph Stalin
Fascism
Adolph Hitler (Nazism)
Benito Mussolini
Japanese Militarism
Hideki Tojo
Axis Powers
Why was FDR fearful of this alliance?
Allied Powers
The Big Three
The start of WWII
Munich Pact
Appeasement
Nazi Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Invasion of Poland
When?
Blitzkrieg
Fall of France
American Neutrality
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Neutrality Acts
Cash and carry
Lend-lease
German wolf packs
The attack on Pearl Harbor
Why?
When?
By whom?
Effect on Japanese Americans?
Doolittle Raid?
What was the Battle of the Atlantic?
What new technology helped the Allied powers defeat Germany in this long battle?
What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad?
Operation Torch
Where?
When?
Which General led this operation?
Invasion of France
D-Day
Where?
Purpose? What two cities were the Allied powers trying to liberate?
Battle of the Bulge
Why this is considered the turning point of the war in Europe?
V-E Day
When
What city was liberated from Nazi control?
Nuremberg Trials
Holocaust
Why were Jews targeted?
Scapegoat
How many Jews were killed? Non-Jews?
Anti-Semitic propaganda
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
Ghettos
Concentration Camps
Genocide
Final Solution
American response to the Holocaust
War in the Pacific
Bataan Death March
Purpose of Island Hopping
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Why this is considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
Battle of Iwo Jima
Kamikaze
Harry Truman
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Japanese surrender