honors u.s. history 2 final exam review sheet chapter … · honors u.s. history 2 final exam...

2

Click here to load reader

Upload: buitram

Post on 04-Jun-2018

213 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Honors U.S. History 2 Final Exam Review Sheet Chapter … · Honors U.S. History 2 Final Exam Review Sheet Chapter 20 Section 1 1. What did the flapper represent? 2. What baseball

Honors U.S. History 2 Final Exam Review Sheet

Chapter 20 Section 1

1. What did the flapper represent?

2. What baseball player was a hero of the 1920s?

Chapter 20 Section 2

1. What changes came to movies in the 1920s?

2. Who brought jazz to northern cities?

3. Harlem was the place to listen to what type of music?

Chapter 20 Section 3

1. What was the long term effect of Prohibition?

2. Why did some state ban teaching evolution in schools?

3. What legal right was the issue at the Scopes trial?

4. Who were the main targets of the Ku Klux Klan’s terror?

5. For what belief did fundamentalists gain attention in the 1920s?

Chapter 21 Section 1

1. What was the Red Scare a response to?

2. Who was Hover’s opponent in the 1928 election?

3. What did the National Origins of 1924 do?

4. Why did Americans fear Communists?

5. What was the purpose of the Palmer raids?

6. What activities did many Americans feel the Communists were behind?

Chapter 21 Section 2

1. How did installment plans affect the American economy?

2. What did the consumer economy depend on?

3. What industry did the most to boost other industries in the 1920s?

Chapter 21 Section 3

1. What were the warning signs of a failing economy?

Chapter 22 Section 1

1. How did most investors react when stock prices fell?

2. Not long after the Crash, who were affected by the Depression?

3. What did the Crash lead to (in terms of jobs)?

4. Why did banks close after the Crash?

5. What did the collapse of the American economic system ultimately lead to?

Chapter 22 Section 2

1. What environmental crisis hit the United States in the 1930s?

Chapter 22 Section 3

1. What did the 21st Amendment do?

2. Why were many farms auctioned off during the Depression?

3. What did some people agree to do when a foreclosed farm was auctioned off?

Chapter 22 Section 4

1. What was Hoover’s strategy for solving the Depression?

Chapter 23 Section 1

1. Why did FDR declare a bank holiday?

2. What was the “brain trust?”

3. What was the “black cabinet?”

4. How did Eleanor Roosevelt help the president?

5. What were FDR’s first hundred days like?

6. What was the Second New Deal?

Chapter 23 Section 2

1. What were the demagogues?

2. Why did Republicans criticize the New Deal?

3. For what action did FDR arouse the most opposition?

Chapter 23 Section 3

1. What is the greatest legacy of the New Deal?

Page 2: Honors U.S. History 2 Final Exam Review Sheet Chapter … · Honors U.S. History 2 Final Exam Review Sheet Chapter 20 Section 1 1. What did the flapper represent? 2. What baseball

Chapter 24 Section 1

1. What tactics did Josef Stalin use to dominate the Soviet Union?

2. How did Hitler and Mussolini view expansion?

3. Why were Italy and Germany known as the Axis Powers?

4. What did Hitler, Mussolini, and Japanese leaders begin doing during the 1930s?

5. What did Mussolini use a gang of Fascist thugs for?

6. How did Stalin attempt to modernize agriculture in the Soviet Union?

7. Nazism is an extreme form of what ideology?

8. What event led to the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union?

Chapter 24 Section 2

1. After Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, where was his next target?

2. Where did the British hold out from the German attack (what battle)?

3. What country had controlled most of Western Europe by 1940?

4. What strategy did Hitler use in the invasion of Poland?

5. Who inspired the British people to resist the invasion?

Chapter 24 Section 3

1. Who took over Manchuria by 1932?

2. What did the Burma Road connect?

3. What were the results of the Manchurian incident?

Chapter 24 Section 4

1. What prompted the United States to enter World War II?

2. Where did Japanese leaders believe they could crush the American naval fleet?

3. What did the American First Committee want to do?

4. What was the policy of the United States during the early years of World War II?

Chapter 25 Section1

1. Why did the United States begin to emerge from the depression?

2. Financing the war with borrowed money is known as what practice?

3. On the home front, what was popular culture characterized by?

4. Between what ages were young men drafted for military service?

5. What did the American government do to meet the demand for war materials?

6. What did Ford Motor Company make instead of cars during the war?

Chapter 25 Section 2

1. What strategy did Roosevelt and Churchill first agree upon?

2. After the Allies took Africa, what was their next target?

3. Where were the Germans finally stopped in their advance in the Soviet Union?

4. When did the invasion to take Europe from the Axis Powers begin?

5. What was the Battle of the Bulge?

Chapter 25 Section 3

1. What was one of the main goals of the Nazis in the 1930s?

2. What was the “final solution question,” announced by the Nazis at the Wannsee Conference?

3. What important idea came out of the Nuremburg Trials?

Chapter 25 Section 4

1. Where did the Japanese attack shortly after Pearl Harbor?

2. Where did the Allies sink 4 Japanese carriers and 250 warplanes?

3. What was the goal of the Manhattan Project?

Chapter 25 Section 5

1. Describe the role of African American soldiers during World War II.

2. What philosophy did CORE believe in?

Essay: The text quotes Harry Hopkins as saying: “Give a man a dole [handout] and you save his body and destroy his

spirit. Give him a job and pay him an assured wage and you save both the body and the spirit.” Explain the relevance of

this way of thinking to the New Deal.