American History
Second Semester Final Study Guide
What were the arguments for expansion in the early 1900s?
How were the Monroe Doctrine and Social Darwinism related in regards to expansion?
Why did supporters argue the Panama Canal needed to be built?
Why did the US annex Hawaii?
What happens in the concept of imperialism?
What did anti-imperialists argue?
Why did the US enter WWI?
How did the US government control the economy during WWI?
What was the Selective Service Act?
How were the African Americans treated during their enlistment in WWI?
Why was the League of Nations created?
What did the Sedition Act do?
What did the fear of spies and sabotage cause the US to do during WWI?
What characterization is can best describe the decade of the 1920s?
What caused the depression of agriculture in the 1920s?
Which music art form originated in the U.S. in the 1920s?
What event abroad contributed to the 1920s Red Scare in the U.S.?
What was the nation’s largest industry in the 1920s?
What has been the persistent problem facing farmers in the U.S. since the 1920s?
What can best describe the return to “normalcy” in the 1920s?
What major trend of the 1920s still continues today?
What conditions best characterized a depression?
What principle was advanced in US political thinking with the New Deal programs?
What was a result of women gaining the right to vote?
What was FDR’s most immediate concern in 1933?
What did the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936 and 1937 provide?
What was the immediate cause of the US entry into WWII?
What was the major action of President Truman’s post-war containment policy?
What was the public opinion of the US at the outbreak of both WWI and WWII?
What belief was US foreign policy in Western Europe based on?
What role did the US take on by joining the United Nations and NATO?
What was the primary significance of the term “cold war”?
Which war marked the first time the United Nations used military action to oppose aggression?
What issue did Senator Joseph McCarthy build his power on?
What was a major effect of the Cold War on the US during the 1950s?
What did Dwight D. Eisenhower’s domino theory lead the US to do?
When President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, which of his constitutional powers was he exercising?
Why was Birmingham, Alabama chosen for civil rights demonstrations?
What was behind the freedom rides?
What are de jure and de facto segregation?
Why did young people of the 1960s have more freedom and opportunities than previous generations?
What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What was Reagan’s foreign policy with regard to the Cold War?