2013-2014 US History Final Exam Study Guide
*List all US Presidents in chronological order
Great Plains
Sitting Bull
George Armstrong Custer
assimilation
Dawes Act
Battle of Wounded Knee
vaqueros
longhorns
Chisholm Trail
long drive
Homestead Act
exodusters
soddy
bonanza farms
Grange
Populism
bimetallism
gold standard
William Jennings Bryan
Edwin L. Drake
Bessemer Process
Thomas Edison
Uses of electricity by 1890Alexander Graham Bell
Christopher Sholes
Andrew Carnegie
vertical integration
horizontal integration
Social Darwinism
John D. Rockefeller
Sherman Antitrust Act
Samuel Gompers
Eugene V. Debs
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
International Workers of the World (aka "Wobblies")
define "scab"
define "strike"
Spanish-American War causes
US imperialism
Rough Riders
Treaty of Paris
Know areas US took possession of as a result of Spanish-American War
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Doughboys
WWI Central Powers
WWI American death toll
Number of African-Americans that served in WWI
WWI worldwide death toll
WWI civilian death toll
1917 Russia drops out of WWI Why? Significance?
Treaty of Versailles
WWI Allied Powers
WWI neutral nations
Four MAIN causes of WWI
Lusitania
Battle of Somme
trench warfare
role of tank in WWI
WWI US President
Gen. John "Blackjack" Pershing
Eddie Rickenbacker
Zimmerman Telegram
US position during WWI (before April 1, 1917)
President Wilson's 14 Points
Treaty of Versailles
1918 Flu epidemic
When did WWI officially end?
18th Amendment
Wall Street
Madison Avenue
Jazz in 1920s
installment plan
19th Amendment
flapper
Harlem in the 1920s
"New Negro"
Scopes Monkey Trial
1920s sports figures
Charles Lindbergh
Five major changes in lives of Americans during 1920s
Great Depression
Black Tuesday
Pres. Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
Role of movies and radio during Great Depression
bread line
soup kitchen
Dow Jones Industrial Average
speculation
shanty town
Dust Bowl
Boulder Dam
Bonus Army
deficit spending
Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal
Huey Long
WPA (Works Progress Administration)
SEC (Securities Exchange Commission)
Social Security Act
Wagner Act
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
1936 Berlin Olympics
Jesse Owens
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling
pre-WWII use of media by Hitler and FDR
Kristallnacht
propaganda
appeasement
isolationism
fascism
totalitarianism
Spanish Civil WarRome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Germany Enters Rhineland
Anschluss
Munich Conference
Crisis in Czechoslovakia
Neville Chamberlain
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Germany Attacks Poland
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt-led US out of Great Depression and to victory in WWII
William Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Hitler
Mussolini
WWII Axis powers
WWII Allied powers
Pearl Harbor- What happened? Date?
Dwight David Eisenhower- Supreme Commander in Europe of US forces; led D-Day invasion
Code-name for Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France on June 6. 1944
Nazi Germany's systematic killing of European Jews was called...?
"Island hopping strategy during War in the Pacific vs. Japanese
Battle of Midway- turning point of the Pacific War vs. Japan; started US "island hopping"
Stalingrad- bloodiest fighting on the Eastern Front took place in city named after the Soviet leader
Iwo Jima- victory on this Pacific island gave US a launching point to bomb mainland Japan
Battle of the Bulge- Dec. 1944 Nazi counterattack that was pushed back by Allies after a month of fierce
fighting
Yalta Conference- Big Three met to discuss post-WWII world; Stalin promises free elections in Eastern Europe
Manhattan Project
Why did the US government evacuate all Japanese-Americans from the their West Coast homes during WWII?
What was this process called?
How did WWII end in Europe against the Nazis? Date?
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
How did WWII end in the Pacific against the Japanese? Date?
"The buck stops here" President
Marshall Plan- named after the US Secretary of State at the time, provided billions of dollars to war ravaged
Western Europe
Purpose of Marshall Plan?
Cold War- post-WWII "war" without direct military conflict; US (capitalism/democracy) vs. USSR
(communism/totalitarianism)
Name two "hot" wars fought as a result of Cold War- Korean War and Vietnam War
The "Iron Curtain"; border between communist and non-communist nations
Know 5 countries behind the "Iron Curtain"- Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia
Containment- US effort to block spread of Soviet influence during 1940s and 1950s
Truman Doctrine- policy of Pres. Truman to provide economic and military aid to free nations threatened by
communism
European country divided after WWII into East and West? Germany; also capital Berlin divided
Berlin Blockade- 1948 Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Stalin cut off all access to city; no food or fuel could
get in
Berlin Airlift-successful US and British operation to fly food and supplies into blockaded West Berlin
Senator Joseph McCarthy- started "witch hunt" against suspected Communists in US government
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg- convicted and executed for leaking information about atomic bomb to Soviets.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)- defensive alliance meant to combat Soviet aggression, formed in
1949, was made up of the US and eleven other Western nations; still exists today.
Warsaw Pact- military alliance formed between USSR and Eastern European satellite nations
Mao Zedong- Communist Chinese leader
Chiang Kai-shek- Nationalist Chinese leader; loses Revolution to Mao and flees to Taiwan
Asian country divided after WWII into North and South? Korea
Jackie Robinson- first African-American to integrate baseball, played for Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
Truman- ends segregation in US military, involves US in Korean War, started US involvement in Vietnam
Baby Boom- post-WWII population explosion; results in largest generation in US history
Brown vs. Board of Education- 1954 Supreme Court ruling that said schools must be racially integrated
Sputnik- name of Soviet's first unmanned satellite into orbit
Levittown- Long Island post-war suburban housing development; homes look alike! answer to housing
shortage
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)- used spies to gather information and also carried out covert (secret)
operations against enemies of US
Television in 1950s- 1950 9% of homes owned TV, by 1960, 90%. Golden age of TV entertainment and news
Rock n' Roll- new American music form; popular with teens, crossed racial lines. Chuck Berry, Bill Haley,
Elvis
President Dwight D. Eisenhower- "I Like Ike", ended Korean War, peace and prosperity, Interstate Highway
Act
This Democratic President was elected in 1960, but was tragically assassinated on Nov. 22 1963