U.S. History II Midterm Review Packet Chapters 16-22
Chapter 16: WWI and Its Aftermath
1. What countries were included in the Triple Entente? (pg. 549)
2. What Austria-Hungarian action angered Serbia before WWI? (pg. 550)
3. What event sparked the declaration of war in WWI? (pg. 550-551)
4. What was the message of the Zimmerman Telegram? (pg. 555)
5. Did women officially serve in the armed forces during WWI? (pg. 561)
6. Why was Daylight Savings Time introduced during WWI? (pg. 557)
7. What was the Great Migration? (pg. 558)
8. What were the purposes of the Espionage and Sedition Acts? (pg. 558)
9. What was the Supreme Court ruling in Schenck v. the United States? (pg. 559)
10. Who were the “Big Four” at the end of WWI? (pg. 570)
11. What was the original purpose of the organization later to become the FBI? (pg. 580)
Chapter 17: The Jazz Age
12. What was Warren G. Harding’s campaign slogan in the 1920 presidential election?(pg. 590)
13. Who were the Ohio Gang? (pg. 590-591)
14. Describe the Teapot Dome Scandal. (pg. 591)
15. Describe the scandal involving Attorney General Harry Daugherty. (pg. 592)
16. How did Calvin Coolidge feel about big business? (pg. 592)
17. How did Henry Ford increase the efficiency of making cars? (pg. 596)
18. What was Henry Ford’s business philosophy and how did it increase sales? (pg. 596-597)
19. How did the Dawes Plan impact the economic structure of Europe? (pg. 594-595)
20. How did the eugenics movement contribute to resurgence in nativism? (pg. 604)
21. How did the Emergency Quota Act limit immigration to the U.S.? (pg. 606)
22. What was the National Origins Act of 1924? (pg. 606)
23. Why was John T. Scopes put on trial? (pg. 608)
24. What was the purpose of the Volstead Act? (pg. 609)
25. How did the Eighteenth Amendment impact federal police powers? (pg. 609)
26. What was the purpose of the Twenty-first Amendment? (pg.609)
27. Who was the “Sultan of Swat?” (pg. 613)
28. What was the Harlem Renaissance? (pg. 616)
29. What type of music is associated with Louie Armstrong? (pg. 617)
30. What was the Cotton Club? (pg. 618)
31. Who was Marcus Garvey and what was his message? (pg. 621)
32. How did Marcus Garvey and the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People differ in their goals for African American equality? (pg. 620-621)
Chapter 18: The Great Depression Begins 1929-1932
33. What was the biggest issue of the 1828 Presidential election? (pg. 628)
34. How did stock prices change before the late 1920s? (pg. 628-629)
35. Why did stock prices first begin to decline in late 1929? (pg. 630)
36. How did Black Tuesday affect stock market investors and the nation? (pg. 630-631)
37. Why did the stock market crash weaken banks? (pg. 631)
38. What happened to depositors’ money when banks failed during the Great Depression? (pg. 631)
39. What role did overproduction play in the Great Depression? (pg. 632)
40. How did the Federal Reserve contribute to the Great Depression? (pg. 633)
41. What was the goal of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff during the Depression? (pg. 633)
42. What did hobos do during the Great Depression? (pg. 634)
43. Describe the climate and geography of life during the Dust Bowl (pg. 635)
44. How did President Hoover believe the public works system would impact the Great Depression? (pg. 640)
45. How did the National Credit Corporation try to rescue troubled banks? (pg. 641)
46. What was the goal of the Bonus Army? (pg. 643)
47. What did most members of the Bonus Army do when the Senate voted their bill down? (pg. 643)
Chapter 19: FDR and the New Deal 1933-1941
48. What was the purpose of “bank holidays?” (pg. 652)
49. How did the Emergency Banking Relief Act help solve the banking crisis? (pg. 653)
50. How are the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Securities Exchange Commission still relevant to the economics of the United States today? (pg. 654)
51. What was the purpose of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)? (pg. 657)
52. How were Teddy Roosevelt and FDR related? (pg. 650)
53. Did FDR have a clear agenda on how to combat the Great Depression in the U.S.? (pg. 651)
54. What did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration pay farmers not to do? (pg. 656)
55. What was the goal of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation? (pg. 654-655)
56. How did the Public Works Administration approach the prospect of hiring African American workers? (pg. 658-659)
57. What was the Wagner Act? Was it considered constitutional? (pg. 665)
Chapter 20: A World in Flames 1931-1941
58. Who did Adolf Hitler blame for Germany’s defeat in WWI? (pg. 684)
59. What was the Nye Committee’s finding about America’s entrance into WWI? (pg. 686)
60. What countries made up the Axis powers? (pg. 687)
61. What was the problem with Hitler claiming Czechoslovakia for Germany? (pg. 689)
62. What was the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression treaty? (pg. 690)
63. What was the outcome of the Battle of Britain during WWII? (pg. 693)
64. What was Kristallnacht? (pg. 695)
65. What was the final fate of the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis? (pg. 697)
66. What was the Destroyers-for-Bases deal? (pg. 702)
67. What was the goal of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech? (pg. 704)
Chapter 21: America and WWII 1941-1945
68. Which country had the highest industrial output and productivity during WWII? (pg. 714-717)
69. What was the “Double V” campaign? (pg. 720)
70. What was the Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v. the United States? (pg. 733)
Chapter 22: The Cold War Begins 1945-1960
71. When did the leaders at the Yalta conference agreed to recognize the Polish government? (pg. 760)
72. How did the United States and the Soviet Union differ on their views of German reparations post-WWII? (pg. 764)
73. How did the Soviet Union respond the U.S., Britain, and France merging their zones in Germany? (pg. 768)
74. Why did Truman fire MacArthur? (pg. 772)
75. What was the result of the Korean War? (pg. 773)
76. What were the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg charged with? (pg. 776)
77. Explain the reasoning behind “massive retaliation” and “brinkmanship.” How did Eisenhower use these concepts to end the Korean War? (pg. 783)