Final Exam Study Guide Honors American History I
Chapter 27
Imperialism
 Arguments for / against imperialism
o Jingoism
o Benevolent Assimilation
o Alfred Thayer Mahan
 Hawaii: why do we want it?
 Spanish American War
o USS Maine
o McKinley and the war (what pushes him to declare war)
o Teller Amendment
o Platt Amendment
 Philippine insurrection
o Arguments for/ against acquisition
o Guerilla warfare
 Open door policy / spheres of influence / Boxer Rebellion
 TR’s Big Stick / leadership style
 TR’s view of the Presidency
 Roosevelt Corollary
o Bad Neighbor Policy
 Panama Canal: why do we want it?
o Hay-Buana Varilla Treaty
 Gentleman’s Agreement
 Great White Fleet
Chapter 28
Progressive Era
 Goals of progressives
 Muckrakers
o Standard Oil
o Upton Sinclair
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 16 , 17th, and 18th amendments
 TR’s 3 C;s
o How does TR feel about trusts
o Square Deal
 Initiative, referendum, recall
 Dollar Diplomacy
 Election of 1912
o Who runs? Who wins? Why?
o New Nationalism v. New Freedom
Chapter 29
Wilson’s presidency and the Road to WWI:
 Triple Wall of Privilege
o Federal reserve act
o 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
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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
o 14 points
 Self determination
 League of Nations
 Collective Security
 Republicans v. Wilson
o What don’t they like?
o What does Wilson do with the Treaty?
Chapter 31
Life in the 1920s
 Red Scare
o Nativism
o Mitchell Palmer
 Immigration Acts
 KKK
 People to know
o Henry Ford
o John Scopes
 Modernists v. Fundamentalists
o Charles Lindberg
o Andrew Mellon
 1920 census
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Steel industry
Causes of the Great Depression
Chapter 32
Politics of the 1920s
 Harding
o Ohio Gang
 Teapot Dome scandal
 Coolidge
o Kellog-Briand Pact
o Dawes Plan
 Hoover
o Election of 1928
 Al Smith
o Hawley Smoot Tariff
o Bonus Army
 Farmers problems
 Manchuria / Japan / League (1931)
Chapter 33
Great Depression
 New Deal
o 3 r’s
o Hundred days Congress
o TVA
o Wagner Act
o Social Security
o Keynesian Economics
o National Debt
 Promises vs. reality
 Dust Bowl
o Regions hit
o Consequences
 Court Packing Scheme
 Critics of New deal
o Long and Coughlin
o Conservatives
Chapter 34
 Road to WWII
o London Economic Conference (impact of US not going)
o Spanish Civil War
 Who sides with who?
 impact
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o Neutrality Acts
 What do they state?
o Munich 1938
 Appeasement and Neville Chamberlin
o Nazi Soviet Pact
o Invasion of Poland
o Cash and Carry
 What does it state?
 Reaction to?
o Lend Lease
 What does it state?
 Reaction to?
o Atlantic Charter
People
o Stalin
o Mussolini
o Hitler
o Churchill
US/Japanese relations prior to Pearl Harbor
American Public Opinion before/after Pearl Harbor
Chapter 35
o WWII
o Roles of
 MacArthur
 Truman
 Eisenhower
 FDR
o Why are Japanese Americans interned?
o Battle to know (impact of)
 D-Day
 Torch
 Bulge
o Role of US industry in the war
o National debt during the war
o Soft underbelly and island hopping
o Potsdam / Truman/ Bomb
o VE day and VJ day
Chapter 36
o Truman’s foreign policy
o Yalta and E. Europe
o Iron Curtain
o Truman Doc (containment)
 Greece and Turkey
 Kennan
o Marshall Plan
o NATO
o Korean War: why does it begin? How does it end? Truman v. MacArthur
o NSC 68 and military budgets
o Red Scare
o Nixon and HUAC
o Rosenberg’s
o McCarthy
o Changes in society
o Sunbelt
o Baby boom
 Impact ( music, social security)
Chp 37
o 1952 Election
o TV and politics (ads, checkers)
o Ike’s popularity
o Civil Rights
o Ike’s view
o Desegregation
o Plessy vs. Ferguson
o Brown vs. Board of Ed
o MLK, Jr.
o New look foreign policy
o Massive retaliation
o Vietnam
 Ho Chi Minh and Diem
o Suez Canal Incident
o Khrushchev
o Sputnik
o Castro and Cuba
 Why don’t we like Castro?
 What is our relationship like with Cuba after revolution?
o Betty Friedan
Chp 38
JFK :
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plan for economy
Flexible response: what is it? Problems it creates
Robert McNamara and role in Vietnam
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Bay of Pigs: event, results
Cuban Missile Crisis: event, results
Assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby
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Election of 1964
o Johnson v. Goldwater
Vietnam
o Viet Cong
o Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
o Tet Offensive (1968)
 Impact on Johnson 68 election
o Counter culture and 3 P’s
Domestic issues
o Civil Rights Act 1964
o Voting Rights Act 1965
o Immigration Act 1965
o Great Society
o March on Washington
o Malcolm X and his view on Civil Rights
Election 1968
o Robert Kennedy
o Humphrey
o Nixon
 Why does he win?
LBJ:
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Chp 39
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Economic Problems 1970s
o Causes of high inflation
o Energy crisis
Nixon and Vietnamization
Impact of Vietnam War
Criticism of the Warren Court
Watergate
o CREEP
o Impact on politics