Test 5 reassessment review
Section 1 WWI
________________________1. Led U.S. troops in WWI.
________________________2. Germany’s use of this was one of the reasons that the U.S. sided with the allies
________________________3. His death sparked the beginning of WWI
________________________4. The five causes of the Great War
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_________________________5. British passenger ship torpedoed, another reason U.S. entered on the side of England
_________________________6. Document proposing alliance between Germany and Mexico, another reason for our entry
_________________________7. The purpose of Wilson’s 14 points plan
_________________________8. Major country that never joined the League of Nations
_________________________9. List the following events in order: U.S. Declares war on Germany, Lusitania sinks, Franz Ferdinand
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assassinated, World War I begins
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_________________________10. He was the most decorated soldier of World War I
SECTION 2 1920s
________________________1. What did the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti represent in the 1920s?
________________________2. What Acts were passed to limit immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe?
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________________________3. What did political heroes give way to in the 1920s? (what group became the new heroes?)
________________________ 4. What was the final outcome of the Scope’s Trial?
_________________________5. Who was the famous aviation hero of the 1920s who flew in the Spirit of St. Louis?
_________________________6. What was the location of the music publishing industry that developed in New York City?
_________________________7. Writers such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald were part of this literary movement.
_________________________8. She was the famous artist known for landscapes, then flowers, and then southwestern images.
_________________________9. This was the flourishing of African-American culture.
_________________________10. What was the scandal from the Harding administration that involved allowing oil leases on public
lands?
_________________________11. What was the belief that the human race could be improved through breeding?
_________________________12. He was the prosecutor in the Scopes Trial who took the stand in defense of literal interpretation
of the Bible.
_________________________13. Defended John Scopes in the Scopes Trial
SECTION 3 NEW DEAL
_________________________1. What were the major causes of the Depression?
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_________________________2. What was Roosevelt’s plan to add justices to the Supreme Court known as?
_________________________3. What was the date of the Pearl Harbor attack?
__________________________7. Which of the Depression presidents was willing to use the government intervention to solve economic
problems?
__________________________8. Which New Deal agency helped writers, musicians, and actors?
__________________________9. What traumatic event on the great plains effected farmers and caused migration to new areas?
_________________________10. Which New Deal Agencies were developed to put people to work?
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__________________________11. What New Deal legislation insured money in America’s banks
__________________________12. He was considered the father of American Military Aviation (look in 20s notes)
SECTION 4 WORLD WAR II
_________________________1. What was the name of the plan used by Roosevelt to help the English and their allies after
Cash and Carry and after the Destroyers for Bases deal?
_________________________2. What was the major issue that caused a “strain” in the relationship of the allies?
_________________________3. What was the name of the federal government agency that created campaigns (posters) to get
Americans to help with the war effort
_________________________4. What was the name of the order that evacuated the Japanese-Americans to internment camps?
_________________________5. What were the reasons for the U.S. to use the atomic bomb against Japan?
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__________________________6. Put the following events in order: Allies invade on D-day, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, German
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invades Poland, Japanese internment begins
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___________________________7. In what year did the D-day invasion take place?
___________________________8. What was the military name for D-day?
___________________________9. What event opened up the second front for the Allies?
___________________________10. In what year was the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese?
___________________________11. Name ways the average American could help the war effort
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____________________________12. What group helped to keep supply lines open to China before the U.S. entered the War?
SECTION 5 COLD WAR
________________________1. Who first used the phrase “Iron Curtain?”
________________________2. What policy’s goal was to keep Communism from spreading?
________________________3. He was the Senator who claimed the government and the military were full of Soviet
spies.
________________________4. In what year did the Soviets test their first atomic bomb?
________________________5. What General did Truman fire during the Korean War?
________________________6. What group went to war against North Korea in 1950?
________________________7. What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?
________________________8. Who were the two leaders of the civil war in China?
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________________________9. Which country joined NATO in return for U.S. help in Indochina (Vietnam)?
________________________10. What was the executive order the integrated the military during the Korean War?
________________________11. In what year did China fall to communism?
________________________12. This program provided economic aid to Western Europe after WWII
________________________13. This document released in 1997 proved that Julius Rosenberg was listed by the
Soviets as a spy. (It was decoded messages of the Soviet Union)
________________________14. This was the Soviet-American standoff in October of 1962 that had us on the brink
of war.
________________________15. This president opened up relations with China and actually visited that country.