United States History Final
Second Semester
Study Guide
After creating a list of people and terms for each historical era, draw a
timeline inserting each showing cause and effect relationships.
Foreign Policy 1870-1920
People (who, significance) Emilio Aguinaldo, Sanford Dole, John Hay,
William Randolph Hearst, Jose Marti, William McKinley, Joseph Pulitzer,
Teddy Roosevelt
Terms/Events (cause, define/describe, significance, controversy)
American imperialism, Boxer Rebellion, Panama Canal, Platt Amendment,
Roughriders, Spanish-American War, Treaty of Paris, USS Maine, War in the
Philippines
Big Ideas
What led to the Spanish-American War?
What ended the Spanish-American War and its impact?
Progressive Era
People (who, significance) Jane Addams, Eugene B. Debs, W.E.B. Dubois,
Robert Lafollette, Upton Sinclair, William Taft, Ida Tarbell, Fredrick Taylor,
Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells,
Terms/Events (cause, define/describe, significance, controversy) 17-19th
Amendment, Coal Strike 1902, Progressive Movement, Sherman Anti-trust
Act, Suffragettes
Big Questions:
What were the causes of the Progressive Movement?
What were characteristics of the Progressive Movement which are lasting
legacies today?
World War I
People (who, significance) Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Alfred Thayer
Mahan, Woodrow Wilson
Terms (cause, define/describe, significance, controversy) First Battle of
the Somme, flu epidemic, Fourteen Points, Lusitania, Schliefflen Plan,
Treaty of Versailles, Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, Victory Gardens,
Zimmerman note, WWI
Big Questions:
What were the causes of WWI in general and for the United States
involvement?
How did WWI end?
What was the impact of Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
The Twenties and the Great Depression
1920-1940
People (who, significance) William Jennings Bryan, Charlie Chaplin, Calvin
Coolidge, Clarence Darrow, William Harding, Herbert Hoover, John Maynard
Keynes, Vladimir Lenin, John L. Lewis, Charles Lindbergh, FDR, Babe Ruth,
John T Scopes, Sacco and Vanzetti
Terms (cause, define/describe, significance, controversy) Black Tuesday,
Dawes Plan, Dust Bowl, flappers, fundamentalists, Great Depression, Harlem
Renaissance, Jazz Age, Ku Klux Klan, Lost Generation, nativism, New Deal (10
programs), Red Scare, Scopes Trial, Social Security, Teapot Dome Scandal,
Young Plan
Big Questions:
What were the characteristics of the Roaring Twenties?
How did the 1920’s lead to the Great Depression?
What were the characteristics of the Great Depression?
How did Hoover and FDR deal with the Great Depression?
World War II
People (who, significance) FDR, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito
Mussolini, Joseph Stalin
Terms (cause,define, significance, controversy) appeasement, Atlantic
Charter, Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, Battle of the Bulge, Battle
of Stalingrad, blitzkrieg, D-Day, Japanese-internment camps, inflation,
isolationism, Hiroshima, Lend-Lease Act, Manhattan Project, Neutrality Act
of 1939, Nuremberg Trials, Pearl Harbor, Rosie the Riveter, Third Reich,
totalitarian state, Tuskegee Airmen, War in the Pacific, Weimar Republic,
Yalta Conference
Big Questions
What were the causes of WWII in general and American involvement?
How did WWII impact the United States social and economic conditions?
Postwar-Cold War
People (who, significance) Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Rosenbergs
Terms (define, significance, controversy) Berlin Airlift, containment, GI
bill, iron curtain, Levittown NY, Marshall Plan, NATO, Truman Doctrine,
Soviet Bloc, Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact
Big Question
How did the end of WWII lead to the battle of the superpowers?
The Fifties and the Sixties
People (who, significance) Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Baines Johnson, JFK,
Joseph McCarthy, Malcolm X
Terms (define, significance, controversy) 38th Parallel, Bay of Pigs, Berlin
Wall, Brown v. Board of Education, beatniks, Civil Rights Act 1964, Cuban
Missle Crisis, Election 1968, Great Society, Jim Crow laws, Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., Little Rock, Korean War, Montgomery bus boycott, Plessy v.
Ferguson, Selma, U-2 spyplane
Big Questions
How did the Cold War play out across the world in various wars?
How did the social domestic history evolve in each decade?
Vietnam
People (who, significance) John Foster Dulles, Lyndon Baines Johnson,
Henry Kissinger, Robert S. McNamara, Ho chi Minh, Richard Nixon, William
Westmoreland
Terms (define, significance, controversy) Geneva Accords, Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution, Kent State, SEATO, Tet Offensive, Viet Cong, Watergate
Big Questions
How did America get involved in Vietnam?
In what ways did the Vietnam War influence American culture/politics at
home?
United States History
Second Semester Final
Study Guide
2013-2014