Chapter 11 – World War I

1. List and explain the short term and long-term causes of World War I

2. Why did Allied leaders reject Wilson’s 14 points peace plan?

3. Why did US Senators oppose signing the Treaty of Versailles? Why did they oppose joining the League of Nations?

4. Explain the social changes that occurring during WW1 in the US for both women and African Americans.

Ch 12 Politics of the Roaring Twenties

5. Explain the connection between the red scare and unions.

6. What is nativism and why did it grow in the 1920s?

7. Explain the Teapot Dome scandal.

8. What is urban sprawl and what caused it?

Ch13 The Roaring Life of the 1920s

9. Explain why prohibition was so difficult to enforce, and be sure to note how people from urban and rural areas probably felt about the law.

10. What is religious fundamentalism?

11. How did rural and urban people feel about the Scopes Monkey trial? What were the participants in the trial fighting over?

12. What was Louis Armstrong’s contribution to the Harlem Renaissance?

Ch 14 The Great Depression Begins

13. Explain how Hoover responded to the Depression? Why did Hoover refuse to do to help people?

14. What was the Bonus army and what did they do?

15. What is the difference between “speculation” and “buying on margin”?

16. What is the connection between Hoovervilles and the suicide rate during the depression?

17. Explain why farmers struggled to survive in the 1920s.

18. What caused the dust bowl?

19. What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff? What was its unintended global consequence?

End of Marking Period 1

Beginning of Marking Period 2

Chapter 15 The New Deal

20. One of the most significant pieces of New Deal legislation was the Federal Securities Act, which created the SEC. What does the SEC do?

21. Match these New Deal initiatives with the idea that best describes them: Works Progress Administration, Social Security Act, Civilian Conservation Corps… Long term economic boost, create jobs, and care for the environment.

22. Was FDR a liberal or a conservative? Was he a democrat or a republican? Explain.

23. FDR was a determined, confident leader who preferred to get his way. What did he fail to do to the judicial branch when they disagreed with him? What was the purpose of this attack on the judicial branch?

24. Why did FDR order farmers to destroy some of their crops? Why did this anger the people living in urban Hoovervilles?

Ch 16 World War Looms

25. What is appeasement and how does it relate to the early days of World War II?

26. What did Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Franco have in common?

27. What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I? Why was it so important that the German people hated the treaty?

28. What country did Britain and France allow Hitler to take because of the policy of appeasement? What country did Hitler attack that finally forced Britain and France to declare war?

29. What did Germany do during the Battle of Britain? What was the Germans’ goal? Why was the outcome so significant?

30. This threatening German military unit was often referred to as ‘wolfpacks’ or ‘Rattlesnakes of the Atlantic’.

31. The people of Poland are still mad at the Germans and another country that invaded Poland during World War II. What is the other country?

32. How did FDR feel about entering the war? What was the Lend-Lease act and how did it work toward FDR’s goals?

Ch17 The United States in World War 1

33. Women who wanted to join the military could be part of the WAAC. What does WAAC stand for and what was the function of its members?

34. The Russians defeated the Germans at the battle of Stalingrad, which cost many lives, and is part of the reason that more Russians died that any other group in World War II. Why were the Russians unhappy with the other Allies after the battle?

35. Who was the Allied commander in Europe? Who was the US commander in the Pacific.

36. What is inflation (in an economic sense)? Why were the prices of consumer goods inflated during World War II?

37. Why did FDR order the internment of Japanese Americans? Why did Truman use the A-Bomb against Japan?

38. What act of Congress allowed returning veterans to go to college for free?

39. What were the ‘Zoot Suit Riots’ and why were they an example of racial tension in America?

Ch18 Cold War Conflicts

40. What is the difference between capitalism and socialism?

41. What is the Truman doctrine? What was Joseph McCarthy’s contribution to the Doctrine?

42. Explain the cause of the Berlin Airlift.

43. Where did Chinese nationalists run to when they lost control of southern and eastern China to the communists / Mao Zedong in 1947?

44. The Soviets joined the UN Security Council, but boycotted the vote in favor of protecting South Korea because the UN had allowed another communist country to join the council. Which country were the Soviets boycotting?

45. What do we call the border between North and South Korea? Who won the Korean war, and how did the outcome effect the location of the border?

46. Explain how Eisenhower responded to the Soviets’ rejection of his “open skies” proposal.

47. How did America respond when the Soviets detonated their first atomic bomb?

48. What was the Eisenhower doctrine? What region of the world was Ike worried about the Soviets attacking?