Final Exam Review

Final Exam Review 2015

-        Units 6-12

-        Format- Objective (multiple choice)

-        1 Essay

-        Primary source analysis (cartoon, excerpt)

 

Unit 6: Becoming a World Power and the Age of Progressivism

1. Define imperialism
2. Identify the causes of imperialism
3. What were the causes and results of the Spanish-American War?
4. How did the Spanish-American War increase America as a world power? Territories acquired?
5. What is the Monroe Doctrine?
6. Arguments for and against imperialism
7. What did Alfred Mahan believe was necessary to be a world power?
8. Define Yellow Journalism:
9. Roosevelt Corollary:
10. Who were the Progressives? Goals?
11. What was the Progressive time period?
12. Reform problems from industrialization, immigration and urbanization
13. Who was Boss Tweed?
14. Define Muckraker
15. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle influenced the passing of what legislation?
16. 18^th amendment:
17. 19^th amendment:

Unit 7: Chapter 19- World War I

18. Underlying Causes of World War I: nationalism, militarism, alliances
19. Immediate cause- Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
20. Trench warfare:
21. Central Powers:
22. Allied Powers:
23. Identify 3 events that caused America to join the war: German unrestricted sub warfare- Lusitania, Sussex Pledge; Zimmerman note; Russian Revolution
24. How were ethnic ties of Americans influences at the start of WWI?
25. Liberty Bonds, rationing, Daylight Savings time
26. Identify 3 of Wilson’s 14 Points:
27. What was the League of Nations? Why was it unsuccessful? Why did the U.S. Senate reject it?
28. What was decided at the Treaty of Versailles? How was Wilson’s plan for peace different from the other Allies?

Unit 8: Chapter 20 and 21- The Roaring Twenties

29. The 1920s was a time of dissenting values between the cities and countryside. Prove this. – Prohibition, Religion, Race, Red Scare
30. Changing role of women- flappers
31. Installment buying:
32. Speculation:
33. Consumer Economy:
34. Communism:
35. Impact of prohibition in cities
36. Impact of automobile on economy and society
37. How did radio and the movies create a mass culture?
38. Harlem Renaissance:
39. Role of heroes
40. Issue at the Scopes Trial:
41. Advertising in the 1920s:
42. Rise of KKK
43. Who was the Lost Generation? Beliefs?
44. Economic danger signs of the 1920s

Unit 9: Chapter 22 and 23- The Great Depression

45. Hoover’s way to deal with the depression
46. 1932 election candidates; winner
47. The New Deal: (3 goals)
48. How did FDR’s New Deal Program change the role of the federal government?
49. What did FDR do to get America out of the depression?
50. Bank holiday:
51. Significance of the Migrant Mother:
52. FDIC:
53. What did Huey Long promise the American people?
54. What was promised in the Social Security Act:
55. How did Germany get out of the depression? Why did Germany invade the Rhineland?

Unit 10: Chapter 24 and 25- The World War II Era

56. 4 causes of WWII
57. Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt
58. What did Hitler do to promote the Aryan race?
59. US Neutrality Acts
60. Lend-Lease Act
61. Axis Powers:
62. Allied Powers:
63. Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
64. Rationing, Victory Gardens:
65. Double V Campaign
66. Treatment of Japanese-Americans:
67. Rosie the Riveter:
68. D-Day:
69. FDR’s Four Freedoms
70. Island-hopping:
71. How did the end of WWII lead to the problems of the Cold War?
72. United Nations

 

Unit 11- The Cold War Era- Chapter 26-31

73. Define Cold War:
74. Why was Communism considered a threat to America?
75. Containment policy:
76. Truman Doctrine:
77. Explain how conformity was a theme of the 1950s.

78.  1950s economy

79.  Role of TV

80.  Rock and Roll impact

81.  Over all mood/theme of the 1950s

82.  Brown v Board of Education

83.  Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall

84.  Goals of JFK’s New Frontier

85.  Bay of Pigs Invasion

86.  Cuban Missile Crisis

87.  Nikita Khrushchev

88.  Goals of LBJ’s Great Society

89.  Watergate Scandal

90.  Goals of conservatives

91.  Goals of liberals

Unit 12- 1980s and 1990s

92.  Goals of Ronald Reagan

93.  1980s economy

94.  Overview of Reagan’s presidency

95.  Overview of George H. Bush’s presidency

96.  Reason for involvement in Persian Gulf War

97.  Overview of Clinton’s presidency