US HISTORY II MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE
FALL 2012 SEMESTER
INFORMATION:
DATE:
Friday, January 25, 2013
TIME:
8:08-10:06am
ROOM:
_____________
EXAM FORMAT:
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100 multiple choice/true & false questions (50 points)
10 short answer essay questions (choice) (50 points)
RESOURCES:
 Chapter vocabulary lists
 Class notes, notebook assignments, HW assignments
 Old tests study guides, tests, quizzes
 Teacher website
 textbook
REVIEW TOPICS:
CH. 20
1. Red Scare
2. Palmer Raids
3. “new” KKK: “100% Americanism”
4. Emergency Quota Act
5. normalcy: what? which President?
6. who said “The chief business of the American people is business”?
7. Sacco and Vanzetti case
8. 1920 election – winner, campaign promise
9. isolationism
10. communism
11. anarchism
12. urban sprawl
13. Teapot Dome scandal: what was it? which president did it affect?
14. Fordney-McCumber tariff
CH. 21
15. “Jazz Age”: who came up with the nickname?
16. “roaring twenties”
17. Prohibition: what is it? which amendments? Causes and effects
18. Al Capone: who was he? where did he operate?
19. Women’s suffrage: what is it? which amendment?
20. Fundamentalism
21. Scopes “monkey” trial: what was it about? How does it represent changing cultural
trends in the US?
22. Flappers
23. Georgia O’Keefe
24. Gertrude Ederle
25. Charles Lindbergh
26. 1st animated movie w/ sound
27. Harlem Renaissance
28. Marcus Garvey/UNIA
29. WEB DuBois/NAACP – anti-lynching priority
30. Jazz music – birthplace?
31. Bessie Smith
32. Louis Armstrong
33. Langston Hughes
CH. 22
34. 3 problems that hurt 1920s prosperity
35. McNary-Haugen Bill – what, why Coolidge vetoed?
36. 1928 presidential election – winner
37. Dow Jones Industrial Average: what does it measure?
38. bull market, bear market
39. Black Tuesday: date, what happened
40. 4 causes of the Great Depression; effects
41. Dust Bowl
42. okies
43. Depression era unemployment rate
44. “rugged individualism:” who, what
45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
46. Bonus March – what, why, Hoover’s reaction, impact
47. Patman Bill
48. Hoover’s leadership: initial response, changes/reasons, later response
CH. 23
49. 1932 presidential election – winner
50. 3 goals of the New Deal; what was the impact of this plan?
51. FDR’s 1st action - bank holiday
52. New Deal legislation: EBRA, FDIC
53. New Deal agencies: AAA, CCC, SEC, NYA, SSA
54. New Deal critics:
a. Huey “Kingfish” Long
b. Charles “the Radio Priest” Coughlin
55. Court-packing bill: what, why
56. Frances Perkins
57. Marian Anderson
58. New Deal coalition
59. Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
60. “War of the Worlds”
61. Federal Writers’ Project – Wright (Native Son), Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), Slave
Narratives
62. Federal Art Project – Wood’s American Gothic, Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land
CH. 24
63. European dictators (5): who? where did the gain power? What circumstances allowed
them to rise to power?
64. Causes of WWII
65. US involvement in WWII – which alliance does US side with?
66. Events/issues that prompted the US to get involved in war
67. totalitarianism
68. Mein Kampf – goals Hitler listed
69. Spanish Civil War – Franco’s role? what countries aided him?
70. FDR – against isolationism; what did he want to do instead? why?
71. Neutrality Acts
72. Which country does Hitler take over first during WWII?
73. Munich Agreement – what, what 3 countries signed it?
74. Blitzkrieg
75. Vichy, France
76. Tripartite Act: which nations signed it?
77. Lend-lease policy
78. wolf packs/u-boats
79. Pearl Harbor: date? what events led up to it?
80. Atlantic Charter – who, what, key points
CH. 25
81. Causes and effects of WWII
82. WAACS and WAVES
83. GI Bill
84. Nuclear chain reaction
85. OPA
86. WPB
87. Manhattan Project
88. Leslie Groves
89. J. Robert Oppenheimer
90. 2 phases of WWII fighting
91. Doolittle’s raid: US revenge for what?
92. Coral Sea: first time for what?
93. Midway Island: why Pacific turning point?
94. Guadalcanal: significance
95. Stalingrad: why European turning point?
96. the Bulge: significance
97. D-Day: goal?
98. Pointe du Hoc: what happened there?
99. kamikazes
100.
Who said “I Shall Return”? When? Where?
101.
99th Pursuit Squadron – aka?
102.
V-E day, V-J day: which came first?
103.
USS Missouri – what happened on board?
104.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Little boy, Fat man, Enola Gay
105.
Allied soldiers to 1st discover Holocaust
106.
Executive Order 9066
107.
Korematsu v. US – reasoning behind ruling?