FINAL EXAM REVIEW

Objectives

To review key locations discussed throughout the course

Identify/recall information from the course through the use of a jeopardy game

Evaluate impacts of several periods of history

Warm Up

In your opinion, what is the single most important event or series of events discussed in US II and why?

Rules

Each group will receive a question in which they need to answer. If they answer the question correctly they will receive 5 points. If they answer it incorrectly they will lose 2 points.

If they answer the question incorrectly then the question goes on to the next group who will try to answer. Any group besides the initial question group may pass, but they may only do this 2X!!!

Reward

3 points extra credit to the winners (added to their final exam grade)

2 points extra credit to the 2nd place team

1 point for everyone else for participating

Intense burst of national pride and aggressive foreign policy

jingoism

Letter stolen from the Spanish ambassador to Washington published in the New York Times that described McKinley as weak.

De Lome Letter

Referred to “A Splendid Little War”

Spanish American War

Areas of economic and political control, in China between Russia, Germany, Britain, France, and Japan

Spheres of influence

This connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and allows for ships to pass through.

Panama Canal

Secretary of State under both Nixon and Ford

Kissinger

The US and the USSR came close to war in this event.

Cuban Missile Crisis

The purpose of this program is to aid people in underdeveloped areas.

Peace Corps

US Foreign policy to stop the spread of communism?

Containment

US and UN effort to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. Under General Colin Powell, “Operation Desert Storm” was launched.

Persian Gulf War

This event wiped out the savings of many Americans.

Stock Market crash of 1929

Journalist that exposed political and business corruption.

Muckrakers

Immediate cause of US entry into WWII?

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Belief that a nation needs overseas colonies in order to be rich and powerful.

Imperialism

This new weapon introduced in WWI changed the rules of naval warfare.

U-Boat

The result of this war is that it strengthened American control in the Caribbean.

Spanish-American War

The anti-Communist hysteria in the 1950s allowed for this man to carry a smear campaign that gained him popularity and eventually caused him to fall from grace.

Joseph McCarthy

“Lightning Warfare”

Blitzkrieg

Which two nations were on the US’s side during WWI, but enemies during WWII?

Japan and Italy

Kennedy’s assassination was investigated by the?

Warren Commission

This movement wanted to solve political and social problems created by industrialization.

Progressive

The era in which alcohol was made illegal.

Prohibition

Clinton made his strongest efforts to tackle this problem at the start of his presidency.

Health Care Reform and the Federal Deficit

President Taft’s foreign policy was most closely associated with this term.

Dollar Diplomacy

What were the 5 long term causes of WWI and WWII?

Nationalism, Alliances, Imperialism, Militarism, International Anarchy

This is when one company has exclusive control over the supply of a particular product or service and eliminates competition.

Monopoly

President during WWI?

Woodrow Wilson

Identify two famous suffragists (late 1800s early 1900s).

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul

Act created in May 1917, that authorized a draft of young men for military service

Selective Service Act

German floating airships used in WWI

Zeppelins

Special war bonds to support the Allied cause (used in both world wars)

Liberty Bonds

Nixon’s foreign policy?

Détente

This was headed by Bernard Baruch during WWI, to oversee the nation’s war-related production

War Industries Board

These acts were put into place to make it illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds or to discuss anything “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive” about the American gov’t or constitution.

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Trial over the teaching of evolution in school.

Scopes trial

Organizations created at the end of WWI; part of Wilson’s 14 points.

League of Nations

Germany had to supply this; it is a payment for economic injury suffered during the war.

Reparations

First man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.

Charles Lindbergh

First women to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

Amelia Earhart

Group of people including prominent writers, who felt disconnected from their country and its values

Lost Generation

Bars that operated illegally during prohibition.

Speakeasies

Controversial trial that occurred during the Red Scare of the 1920s that resulted in death.

Sacco and Vanzetti

In 1921 and 22, Harding’s Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly gave oil-drilling rights on government oil fields.

Teapot Dome Scandal

This plan lent economic aid to help war-ravaged nations recover from devastation

Marshall Plan

This was agreed upon at the Yalta Conference to be a new international peacekeeping organization.

United Nations

US and French agreement to not declare war on each other. 15 nations pledged not to use the threat of war in their dealings with one another.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return (stock market).

Speculation

Created in 1914 by Wilson and Congress; it gives power to order firms to “cease and desist” unfair business tactics.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

This amendment appealed Prohibition.

21st

This officially ended the Great War

Versailles Treaty

Reagan’s program that was essentially supply side economics

Reaganomics

Created in 1932 by Hoover, this gave the govt credit to a number of institutions, such as large industries, railroads, and insurance companies.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Investors could purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price and borrow the rest

Buying on margin

Between 1931-1940 so much soil blew out of the central and southern Great Plains that the region became known as ?

The Dust Bowl

Highest import tax in US history was created in 1930 to protect domestic industries from foreign imports

Hawley-Smoot tariff

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?

Betty Friedman

In Nov 1945, 24 Nazi defendants were tried at this International Military Tribunal.

Nuremberg Trials

A series of acts that banned discrimination in voting, schools, and jobs.

Civil Rights Act

In WWI the Central Powers were comprised of?

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

Vets from WWI and their families encamped in Washington D.C. to demand immediate payment of pension bonus that was promised.

Bonus Army

Refer to the relief, recovery, and reform programs of FDR’s administration that aimed at combating the Great Depression.

New Deal

FDR’s favorite program that was established in 1933, to put millions of young, unmarried men to work maintaining forests, beaches, and parks.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Govt funded projects to build public facilities under FDR

Public Works Programs

Scientists that developed the atomic bomb were organized in the top secret ____________________.

Manhattan Project

Paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the government recieves in revenues.

Deficit spending

Process of removing enemies and undesirable individuals from power. This tactic was used by Stalin.

Purge

Political leaders of the Axis Powers?

Germany- Hitler Italy- Mussolini Japan- Hojo

When it appeared that Britain could no longer pay for supplies during WWII, FDR created this; stating that if your neighbor’s house was on fire you would not charge them to use your hose.

Lend-Lease Act

Telegram sent to Mexico from Germany, requesting Mexico to make an alliance and to attack the US.

Zimmerman Note

Also known as Operation Overlord, this was the invasion of France by the Allies.

D-Day

Discrimination or hostility, often violent, directed at Jews.

Anti-Semitism

This stipulated that the Cuban government could not enter any foreign agreements and must give the US the right to intervene whenever necessary

Platt Amendment

The U.S. wanted to protect its trading opportunities in China; thus they advocated for this.

Open Door Policy

Churchill called on Americans to help keep Stalin from enclosing any more nations behind the ________________ of Communist domination and oppression.

Iron curtain

Aid to Greece and Turkey after WWII; also preventing the spread of communism to these countries was apart of the….

Truman Doctrine

Alliance between Canada, USA, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Lux., Netherlands, Norway and Portugal, formed in April 1949. It agreed that “an armed attack against one or more of them…shall be considered an attack against them all”

North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO)

They were accused by the House of Un-American Activities; refused to respond to questioning and served jail terms ranging from 6months to a year.

Hollywood 10

An act passed in 1947 that allowed the President to declare an 80-day cooling off period during which strikers had to return to work (reflected the widespread fear of communism)

Taft-Hartley Act

Historic Supreme Court decision that integrated schools

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Boynton v. Virginia (1960) furthered the desegregation of bus stations and interstate buses. To test if the South would obey the new laws, SNCC and CORE carried out …

Freedom Rides

How did the Great Society differ from the New Frontier?

Most programs passed through congress in the Great Society

Style of fighting on the Western Front during WWI.

Trench warfare

In the late 1950s, many Americans began to question the country’s status as the strongest world power because of this event.

Sputnik

This was a rebirth of African-American cultural contributions to America

Harlem Renaissance

Strategy used by MLK and the African-American students who sat at the “whites only” lunch counter in North Carolina.

Civil Disobedience

President Reagan’s foreign policy was based on increasing what?

National Defense Spending

This major event occurred during WWI and pulled one of the Allies out of the war to deal with domestic issues.

Russian Revolution

Nickname for the Progressive Party whose platform included tariff reduction, women’s suffrage, more regulation of business, child labor ban, 8 hr workday, fed workers compensation, and direct elections

Bull Moose Party

This was created by an act with the same name; it divided the country in 12 districts, each with its own bank owned by member banks.

Federal Reserve System

The Allies in WWII were?

Russia, France, Serbia, Great Britain and later the US

Following the ___________ ___________, the German army quickly swept through Belgium and northern France.

Schlieffen Plan

Court case that legalized abortion.

Roe v. Wade

Giving into a competitor's demands in order to keep the peace

Appeasement

“A new coalition that will fight for Indian treaty rights and better conditions and opportunities for our people.”

American Indian Movement

The first troops sent to Europe in WWI were comprised of volunteers and National Guardsmen.

American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

Final Jeopardy

In your group decide how many points you wish to wager. You cannot wager more than you have! If you have negative points you cannot wager anything!

Final Jeopardy

What are 2 post 9/11 changes in America?

Final Jeopardy II

Name two conditions that contributed to the growth of industry after the Civil War?

Abundance of cheap labor; New business and management strategies; Natural and capital resources

Final Jeopardy III

US followed a policy of expansionism in the 1800s for several reasons; name two.

Desire to promote Anglo-Saxon superiority; need for a strong navy;