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Mid-term Review for American Cultures Honors
World War I (Chapter 22)
The “Roaring” 1920s (Chapter 23)
Factors leading to U.S decision to enter WWI:
Summarize the Harding Administration:
Which was the most significant reason?
What was the Red Scare of 1919?
Summarize civil liberties / civil rights in the U.S.
during WWI:
Summarize the conditions of the U.S. economy
during WWI:
Explain the relationship between government policy
and business in the 1920s?
Summarize the economic conditions in the 1920s
(Why did this lead to economic prosperity?)
What was the Teapot Dome scandal?
Explain Wilson’s Fourteen Points:
Summarize Modernism vs. fundamentalism in the
1920s:
Identify and explain the Treaty of Versailles:
What was the Scopes Trial?
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Mid-term Review for American Cultures Honors
The Great Depression (Chapter 24)
World War II (Chapter 25)
Identify causes of the Great Depression:
What were the Neutrality Acts?
What led to the Stock Market Crash in October
1929?
What was the Munich Pact?
Explain President Hoover’s view on the Great
Depression and government welfare:
WWII officially began after what event?
Explain President Roosevelt’s view on the Great
Depression and government welfare:
Identify the Lend-lease Act:
Identify FDR’s critics and their ideas for ending the
Great Depression:
What was the concept of “cash and carry” during
WWII?
Huey Long –
What were effects of the War on the home front in
the U.S. ?
Frances Townsend –
Identify The Social Security Act:
What were conditions like for African-Americans
during WWII?
Explain FDR’s Court Packing Plan:
Identify and explain the Yalta Conference:
Summarize the Dust Bowl:
Identify and explain the Potsdam Conference:
What was the Works Progress Administration?
Why did President Truman decide to drop the
atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?