Final Exam Study Guide Honors American History I

Chapter 27

Imperialism

  • Arguments for / against imperialism
  • Jingoism
  • Benevolent Assimilation
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • Hawaii: why do we want it?
  • Spanish American War
  • USS Maine
  • McKinley and the war (what pushes him to declare war)
  • Teller Amendment
  • Platt Amendment
  • Philippine insurrection
  • Arguments for/ against acquisition
  • Guerilla warfare
  • Open door policy / spheres of influence / Boxer Rebellion
  • TR’s Big Stick / leadership style
  • TR’s view of the Presidency
  • Roosevelt Corollary
  • Bad Neighbor Policy
  • Panama Canal: why do we want it?
  • Hay-Buana Varilla Treaty
  • Gentleman’s Agreement
  • Great White Fleet

Chapter 28

Progressive Era

  • Goals of progressives
  • Muckrakers
  • Standard Oil
  • Upton Sinclair
  • 16th, 17th, and 18th amendments
  • TR’s 3 C;s
  • How does TR feel about trusts
  • Square Deal
  • Initiative, referendum, recall
  • Dollar Diplomacy
  • Election of 1912
  • Who runs? Who wins? Why?
  • New Nationalism v. New Freedom

Chapter 29

Wilson’s presidency and the Road to WWI:

  • Triple Wall of Privilege
  • Federal reserve act
  • Underwood tariff
  • Pancho Villa
  • Wilson’s leadership style
  • Allies v. Central powers
  • Lusitania
  • Sussex
  • Sussex pledge
  • Public Opinion about the War

Chapter 30

World War I

  • George Creel
  • Impact of the Russian Revolution on the War
  • Doughboys
  • American Contributions to war effort
  • How was did this conscription act differ from Civil War?
  • How did we pay for the war?
  • Espionage and Sedition Acts
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • 14 points
  • Self determination
  • League of Nations
  • Collective Security
  • Republicans v. Wilson
  • What don’t they like?
  • What does Wilson do with the Treaty?

Chapter 31

Life in the 1920s

  • Red Scare
  • Nativism
  • Mitchell Palmer
  • Immigration Acts
  • KKK
  • People to know
  • Henry Ford
  • John Scopes
  • Modernists v. Fundamentalists
  • Charles Lindberg
  • Andrew Mellon
  • 1920 census
  • Steel industry
  • Causes of the Great Depression

Chapter 32

Politics of the 1920s

  • Harding
  • Ohio Gang
  • Teapot Dome scandal
  • Coolidge
  • Kellog-Briand Pact
  • Dawes Plan
  • Hoover
  • Election of 1928
  • Al Smith
  • Hawley Smoot Tariff
  • Bonus Army
  • Farmers problems
  • Manchuria / Japan / League (1931)

Chapter 33

Great Depression

  • New Deal
  • 3 r’s
  • Hundred days Congress
  • TVA
  • Wagner Act
  • Social Security
  • Keynesian Economics
  • National Debt
  • Promises vs. reality
  • Dust Bowl
  • Regions hit
  • Consequences
  • Court Packing Scheme
  • Critics of New deal
  • Long and Coughlin
  • Conservatives

Chapter 34

  • Road to WWII
  • London Economic Conference (impact of US not going)
  • Spanish Civil War
  • Who sides with who?
  • impact
  • Neutrality Acts
  • What do they state?
  • Munich 1938
  • Appeasement and Neville Chamberlin
  • Nazi Soviet Pact
  • Invasion of Poland
  • Cash and Carry
  • What does it state?
  • Reaction to?
  • Lend Lease
  • What does it state?
  • Reaction to?
  • Atlantic Charter
  • People
  • Stalin
  • Mussolini
  • Hitler
  • Churchill
  • US/Japanese relations prior to Pearl Harbor
  • American Public Opinion before/after Pearl Harbor

Chapter 35

  • WWII
  • Roles of
  • MacArthur
  • Truman
  • Eisenhower
  • FDR
  • Why are Japanese Americans interned?
  • Battle to know (impact of)
  • D-Day
  • Torch
  • Bulge
  • Role of US industry in the war
  • National debt during the war
  • Soft underbelly and island hopping
  • Potsdam / Truman/ Bomb
  • VE day and VJ day

Chapter 36

  • Truman’s foreign policy
  • Yalta and E. Europe
  • Iron Curtain
  • Truman Doc (containment)
  • Greece and Turkey
  • Kennan
  • Marshall Plan
  • NATO
  • Korean War: why does it begin? How does it end? Truman v. MacArthur
  • NSC 68 and military budgets
  • Red Scare
  • Nixon and HUAC
  • Rosenberg’s
  • McCarthy
  • Changes in society
  • Sunbelt
  • Baby boom
  • Impact ( music, social security)

Chp 37

  • 1952 Election
  • TV and politics (ads, checkers)
  • Ike’s popularity
  • Civil Rights
  • Ike’s view
  • Desegregation
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson
  • Brown vs. Board of Ed
  • MLK, Jr.
  • New look foreign policy
  • Massive retaliation
  • Vietnam
  • Ho Chi Minhand Diem
  • Suez Canal Incident
  • Khrushchev
  • Sputnik
  • Castro and Cuba
  • Why don’t we like Castro?
  • What is our relationship like with Cuba after revolution?
  • Betty Friedan

Chp 38

JFK :

  • plan for economy
  • Flexible response: what is it? Problems it creates
  • Robert McNamara and role in Vietnam
  • Bay of Pigs: event, results
  • Cuban Missile Crisis: event, results
  • Assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby

LBJ:

  • Election of 1964
  • Johnson v. Goldwater
  • Vietnam
  • Viet Cong
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
  • Tet Offensive (1968)
  • Impact on Johnson 68 election
  • Counter culture and 3 P’s
  • Domestic issues
  • Civil Rights Act 1964
  • Voting Rights Act 1965
  • Immigration Act 1965
  • Great Society
  • March on Washington
  • Malcolm X and his view on Civil Rights
  • Election 1968
  • Robert Kennedy
  • Humphrey
  • Nixon
  • Why does he win?

Chp 39

  • Economic Problems 1970s
  • Causes of high inflation
  • Energy crisis
  • Nixon and Vietnamization
  • Impact of Vietnam War
  • Criticism of the Warren Court
  • Watergate
  • CREEP
  • Impact on politics