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Semester 1: Review Packet

Ch.19 (World War I and Beyond) (1914-1920)

I. Terms to Know:

Militarism, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser William II, Western Front, casualty, contraband, U-Boat, Lusitania, Zimmerman note, Gavrilo Princip, trench warfare, Woodrow Wilson, Jeannette Rankin, Selective Service Act, Bernard Baruch, Committee on Public Information (CPI), George Creel, conscientious objector, Espionage Act, Sedition Act, Great Migration, War Industries Board (WIB), National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), Eugene V. Debs, Schenck v. United States (1919), convoy, Vladimir Lenin, John J. Pershing, Fourteen Points, self-determination, League of Nations, reparations, “irreconcilables”, “reservationists”, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Sacco & Vanzetti, Warren G. Harding, creditor nation.

II. Questions to Consider:

1. What were the causes of WWI?

2. Why did the United States enter the war?

3. What are some examples of new technologies that were used during the war?

4. Why did both sides embrace trench warfare as a strategy to win the war?

5. Why did President Wilson fear that the war would set Americans against one another?

6. What German actions led the United States to enter World War I?

7. How did the war affect Americans at home?

8. How did the United States ready its military, economy, and people for war?

9. What were some of the reasons Americans did not support the war?

10. How did the war provide new opportunities for women, African Americans, and Mexican Americans?

11. How did Americans affect the end of World War I and its peace settlements?

12. How did the decisions at the Paris Peace Conference violate the Fourteen Points?

13. What were the arguments for and against joining the League of Nations?

14. What political, economic, and social effects did World War I have on the United States?

15. How did the rise of communism in the Soviet Union contribute to the Red Scare?

16. Why did the United States become the leading economic power after World War I?

** What caused the United States to become involved in World War I, and how did the United States change as a result of its involvement?**

Ch.20 (The Twenties) (1919-1929)

I. Terms to Know:

Henry Ford, mass production, Model T, assembly line, consumer revolution, installment buying, bull market, buying on margin, Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, Teapot Dome Scandal, “Ohio Gang”, Calvin Coolidge, Washington Naval Disarmament Conference, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Dawes Plan, modernism, fundamentalism, Scopes Trial, Clarence Darrow, quota system, Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, bootlegger, Al Capone, Charlie Chaplin, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, flapper, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Spirit of St. Louis, “Lost Generation”, Marcus Garvey, Louis Armstrong, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes.

II. Questions to Consider:

1. How did the booming economy of the 1920s lead to changes in American life?

2. How did Henry Ford increase the production and sale of automobiles?

3. How did buying on margin allow more people to invest in the stock market?

4. What impact did the development of suburbs have on American society?

5. How did domestic and foreign policy change direction under Harding and Coolidge?

6. What were the causes and effects of the Teapot Dome Scandal?

7. How did the United States support world peace efforts during the 1920s?

8. How did Americans differ on major and cultural issues?

9. How did the Scopes Trial illustrate the urban-rural split in the 1920s?

10. How did new laws change U.S. immigration policy in the 1920s?

11. How did the goals of the new Ku Klux Klan differ from those of the old Klan?

12. What were the effects of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act?

13. How did the new mass culture reflect technological and social changes?

14. How did the new mass media contribute to the popularity of heroes?

15. What political gains did American women make during the 1920s?

16. How did African Americans express a new sense of hope and pride?

**How did the United States experience both economic growth and social change in the decade after World War I?**

Ch.21 (The Great Depression) (1928-1932)

I. Terms to Know:

Speculation, Black Tuesday, business cycle, Great Depression, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Hooverville, tenant farmer, Dust Bowl, Okies, repatriation, localism, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), trickle-down economics, Hoover Dam, Bonus Army, Douglas MacArthur,

II. Questions to Consider:

1. How did prosperity of the 1920s give way to the Great Depression?

2. What economic problems lurked beneath the general prosperity of the 1920s?

3. What happened on October 29, 1929?

4. How did the stock market crash contribute to the onset of the depression?

5. What effect did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff have on the American economy?

6. What were the primary causes of the Great Depression?

7. How did the Great Depression affect the lives of urban and rural Americans?

8. How did the depression take a toll on women, children, and minorities in America?

9. Why did Herbert Hoover’s policies fail to solve the country’s economic crisis?

10. Why was Hoover reluctant to have the federal government interfere with the economy?

11. What actions did Hoover take to fight the effects of the depression?

12. Why did Hoover order the removal of the Bonus Army from its camps?

**How did the Great Depression happen, and how did Americans respond to it?**

Ch.22 (The New Deal) (1932-1941)

I. Terms to Know:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, New Deal, fireside chat, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), National Recovery Administration (NRA), Public Works Administration (PWA), Charles Coughlin, Huey Long, Second New Deal, Works Progress Administration (WPA), John Maynard Keynes, pump priming, Social Security Act, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Wagner Act, collective bargaining, Fair Labor Standards Act, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), sit-down strike, court packing, Black Cabinet, Indian New Deal, New Deal Coalition, welfare state, Frank Capra, War of the Worlds, Federal Art Project, Dorothea Lange, John Steinbeck.

II. Questions to Consider:

1. How did the New Deal attempt to address the problems of the depression?

2. What actions did Roosevelt take in his first hundred days in office?

3. What were two major criticisms of FDR’s New Deal economic policies?

4. What major issues did the Second New Deal address?

5. Why did the onset of the depression make it essential to have some form of Social Security?

6. How did the New Deal affect trade unions?

7. What setbacks did Roosevelt face during his second term as President?

8. How did the New Deal change the social, economic, and political landscape of the United States for future generations?

9. What impact did the New Deal have on women?

10. How did the New Deal affect African Americans?

11. In what ways did the New Deal alter the U.S. policies toward Native Americans?

12. How did the New Deal affect ethnic and social divisions?

13. In what ways did the role of the federal government grow during FDR’s presidency?

14. How did the men and women of the depression find relief from their hardships in the popular culture?

15. What were some of the most important popular cultural trends of the 1930s?

16. In what ways did the New Deal support American arts?

**How did the New Deal respond to the ravages of the depression and change the role of the federal government?**

Ch.23 (The Coming of War) (1931-1942)

I. Terms to Know:

Totalitarianism, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, anti-Semitic, Spanish Civil War, appeasement, Anschluss, Munich Pact, blitzkrieg, Axis Powers, Allies, Winston Churchill, Neutrality Act of 1939, Tripartite Pact, Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Hideki Tojo, Pearl Harbor, Women’s Army Corps (WAC), Bataan Death March, Battle of Coral Sea.

II. Questions to Consider:

1. Why did totalitarian states rise after World War I, and what did they do?

2. What legacy did WWI leave behind?

3. How did Stalin and Mussolini maintain their power?

4. How did the Great Depression affect political life in Germany and Japan?

5. Why did the League of Nations fail to halt German and Italian aggression?

6. Why did Britain, France, and the United States not stop fascist aggression in the 1930s?

7. How did Americans react to events in Europe and Asia in the early years of World War II?

8. How did President Roosevelt react to Japan’s aggression in China in the late 1930s?

9. According to interventionists, how would aiding the Allies actually keep the United States out of the war?

10. How did the United States support the Allies after Roosevelt’s reelection?

11. How did the United States react to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

12. What did the Japanese military leaders hope to achieve by attacking Pearl Harbor? Were they successful in this goal?

13. What were the first actions taken by the United States once war was declared?

14. What military advantages did the United States have over Japan?

15. What was the Doolittle Raid? What affect did it have on American morale?

**What events caused World War II, and how did the United States become involved?**

Ch.24 (World War II) (1941-1945)

I. Terms to Know:

Dwight Eisenhower, George S. Patton, Jr., unconditional surrender, saturation bombing, strategic bombing, Tuskegee Airmen, Chester Nimitz, Battle of Midway, A. Phillip Randolph, Executive Order 8802, bracero program, internment, Korematsu v. United States, 442^nd Regimental Combat Team, rationing, Office of War Information (OWI), D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Harry S. Truman, island hopping, kamikaze, Albert Einstein, Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Holocaust, Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, genocide, concentration camp, death camp, War Refugee Board, Yalta Conference, superpower, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), United Nations (UN), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Geneva Convention, Nuremberg Trials.

II. Questions to Consider:

1. How did the Allies turn the tide against the Axis?

2. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a turning point in World War II?

3. What were the goals of British and American bombing runs over Germany?

4. What impact did the Battle of Midway have on Japanese expansion in the Pacific?

5. How did the war change American at home?

6. How did the war create new opportunities for African Americans?

7. How did the war affect the location of industries and workers in the United States?

8. Why were Japanese Americans interned during World War II? Your opinion?

9. How did the federal government control resources needed for the war effort?

10. Can government limit a group’s liberties during wartime?

11. How did the Allies defeat the Axis Powers?

12. On what issues did Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill disagree?

13. What was the primary objective of the D-Day invasion at Normandy?

14. What were the results of the Battle of the Bulge?

15. Why was the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific so deadly to both sides?

16. What were the consequences of the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Your opinion?

17. How did the Holocaust develop and what were its results?

18. How did Hitler enforce anti-Semitism as chancellor of Germany?

19. What actions did the Nazis take to carry out Hitler’s “Final Solution”?

20. How did the U.S. government respond to the German campaign against European Jews?

21. What were the major immediate and long-term effects of World War II?

22. What goals did the Allies set for Eastern Europe at the Yalta Conference?

23. What impact did World War II have on the relative roles of the United States and Britain in the world?

24. What steps did the United States take to increase its role in the postwar world?

25. How did World War II foster support for civil right?

** What impact did World War II have on America and the world?**

Chapter 25 (The Cold War)

I. Terms To Know:

Satellite state, iron curtain, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin airlift, NATO,

Jiang Jieshi, Mao Zedong, 38^th Parallel, limited war, SEATO, arms race, mutually assured destruction, massive retaliation, brinkmanship, Eisenhower Doctrine, HUAC, blacklist, Alger Hiss, The Rosenbergs, McCarthyism

II. Questions To Consider:

1. How did the goals of U.S. and Soviet foreign policy differ after World War 2?

2. What events caused President Truman to propose what became known as the Truman Doctrine?

3. How did the U.S. leaders respond to the threat of communism and the Soviet Union?

4. How did U.S. foreign policy differ after World War 2 compared to after World War 1?

5. How did President Truman respond to the North Korean invasion of South Korea?

6. How did President Truman use the power of the Presidency to limit the spread of communism in East Asia?

7. How was Eisenhower’s approach to foreign affairs different from that of Truman?

8. What steps did Truman and Congress take to investigate communist influence in the United States?

RESULTS FALL 2013

GERMANY

-in a state of war with France

-closee allies with Britain and Russia

-made peace between Austria and Serbia

SERBIA

-neutral relationship with Great Britain

-allied with France, Germany and Austria

-ar war with Russia

RUSSIA

-allied with Austria-Hungary, Germany and Britain

-at war with Serbia and France

FRANCE

-neutral relationship with Serbia and Britain

-at war with Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary

BRITAIN

-allied with Russia and Germany

-at war with France

-neautral relationship with Serbia and Austria-Hungary

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

-allied with Germany, Serbia and Russia

-at war with France

-neuatral relationship with Britain

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