Mr. Terpstra
Applied History
Name: __________________
Applied History: Final Exam Study Guide
1. What was the American Civil War?
2. What does the term Reconstruction mean in terms of American history?
3. What was the Progressive Era in the United States?
4. What is capitalism?
5. What is urbanization?
6. What is political corruption?
7. What is imperialism?
8. What was the Spanish-American War?
9. What does exploitation mean?
10. What does the term “direct control” mean in terms of imperialism?
11. What was World War I?
12. What is militarism?
13. What is nationalism?
14. What is an alliance?
15. Who or what are the Central Powers of WWI?
16. Who or what are the Allied Powers of WWI?
17. What was the Treaty of Versailles?
18. What was the League of Nations?
19. Who was the President of the USA at the end of WWI?
20. What technology became more common in the 1920s allowing people to live in suburbs?
Mr. Terpstra
Applied History
Name: __________________
Applied History: Final Exam Study Guide
21. What did the 19th Amendment change in America?
22. What groups of people were discriminated against the most in the 1920s?
23. Who was the leader of the Nazi party that took power after economic depression in
Germany?
24. Where did African Americans migrate from and to during the 1920s?
25. Who became president in 1928?
26. On October 24, 1929 the _________ crashed due to speculation and led to the
_________.
27. What problems in America’s economy in the 1920’s led to the Great Depression?
28. What problem did farmers and sharecroppers have during the Great Depression?
29. What was the new term for the political programs started by FDR during the
Depression ?
30. Along with changes in labor unions, the Supreme Court, and public works agencies,
what major piece of legislation was created under FDR during the Depression ?
31. What were major causes of WWII?
32. What caused Great Britain and France to finally declare war on Germany on Sept. 3,
1939?
33. What ended the war in Japan on September 2, 1945?
34. What is the term for the mass murder of a group of people, such as in Armenia in
WWI?
35. What is the term for the systematic oppression and murder of European Jews by the
Nazis?
36. After WWII, the Soviet Union (formerly Russia) controlled Eastern Europe with what
form of government?
Mr. Terpstra
Applied History
Name: __________________
Applied History: Final Exam Study Guide
37. What is the name of the international organization created after WWII to settle
disagreements, which still exists to this day?
38. Who was the President of the USA at the end of WWII?
39. What city in Germany was split in half by the Eastern and Western Bloc countries?
40. What nations fought between 1950 - 1953 with China helping on one side and the USA
on the other side?
41. What is the term for the USA’s plan to fight the spread of communism during the Cold
War?
42. In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights protests and riots broke out because of __________.
43. What war was the USA involved in from the late 1950s through the early 1970s in east
Asia?
44. Who were important civil rights leaders during the 1950s and 1960s?
45. What was the system of segregation in South Africa called and who led the fight
against it?
46.
What new nation was created from part of Palestine by Jewish settlers in 1948?
47. Who became the leader of the Indian independence movement away from British rule?
48.
Which side took control of Vietnam when the USA pulled all of its troops out in 1975?
49. Which US president met with Chinese and Soviet leaders in 1972 ?
50. Who became president of the USA in 1981 ?
51. Who became president of the USA in 1989?
52. In what year did the Soviet Union collapse and become various independent nations
including the Russian Federation?
53. In what year did the terrorist attack in the United States occur on September 11?
Mr. Terpstra
Applied History
Name: __________________
Applied History: Final Exam Study Guide
Look at your timelines from previous tests or google the
following events so that you know when they occurred:
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
The Industrial Revolution
World War I and World War II
The Age of Enlightenment
The Renaissance
The Cold War
Ancient Civilizations
Age of Revolutions (American, French, Latin American)
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
World War I
American Civil War
Ratification of U.S. Constitution
Presidency of Andrew Jackson and “Trail of Tears”
Industrial Revolution
Age of Reconstruction
Progressive Era
War of 1812
Ratification of 19th Amendments
America entered WWI, Russian Revolutions
● Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president & Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of
Germany
● Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, US enters WWII
● World War II
● Germany occupies Rhineland
● Treaty of Versailles
● Stock Market Crash that led to Great Depression
● Great Depression
● Ratification of 19th Amendment
● Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi Party
● Nazis Invade Poland
● Vietnam War
● President Ronald Reagan takes office
● Israel becomes a nation
● Cold War
● President Nixon visits China and USSR
● World War II ends and United Nations is created
Mr. Terpstra
Applied History
Name: __________________
Applied History: Final Exam Study Guide
●
●
●
●
●
President H.W. Bush takes office
Brown v. Board of Education
Collapse of USSR and end of Cold War
Passage of two important Civil Rights Acts in the 1960s
Korean War
Be able to locate the following U.S. States on a map:
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, California, Florida, Texas, Hawaii, Alaska
Be able to locate the following countries and oceans on a
map:
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, United States of America, Russia, China, Japan,
India, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, The Philippines, Israel, Vietnam,
North and South Korea, Panama