FINAL EXAM REVIEW
Objectives
 To review key locations discussed throughout
the course
 Identify/recall information from the course
through the use of a jeopardy game
 Evaluate impacts of several periods of history
Warm Up
 In your opinion, what is the single
most important event or series of
events discussed in US II and why?
Rules
 Each group will receive a question in which
they need to answer. If they answer the
question correctly they will receive 5 points. If
they answer it incorrectly they will lose 2
points.
 If they answer the question incorrectly then
the question goes on to the next group who
will try to answer. Any group besides the
initial question group may pass, but they may
only do this 2X!!!
Reward
 3 points extra credit to the winners
(added to their final exam grade)
 2 points extra credit to the 2nd place
team
 1 point for everyone else for
participating
 Intense burst of national pride and
aggressive foreign policy
 jingoism
 Letter stolen from the Spanish ambassador
to Washington published in the New York
Times that described McKinley as weak.
 De Lome Letter
 Referred to “A Splendid Little
War”
 Spanish American War
 Areas of economic and political control, in
China between Russia, Germany, Britain,
France, and Japan
 Spheres of influence
 This connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
and allows for ships to pass through.
 Panama Canal
 Secretary of State under both Nixon
and Ford
 Kissinger
 The US and the USSR came close to
war in this event.
 Cuban Missile Crisis
 The purpose of this program is to aid
people in underdeveloped areas.
 Peace Corps
 US Foreign policy to stop the spread
of communism?
 Containment
 US and UN effort to drive Iraqi forces out of
Kuwait. Under General Colin Powell,
“Operation Desert Storm” was launched.
 Persian Gulf War
 This event wiped out the savings of
many Americans.
 Stock Market crash of 1929
 Journalist that exposed political and
business corruption.
 Muckrakers
 Immediate cause of US entry into
WWII?
 Attack on Pearl Harbor
 Belief that a nation needs overseas
colonies in order to be rich and
powerful.
 Imperialism
 This new weapon introduced in WWI
changed the rules of naval warfare.
 U-Boat
 The result of this war is that it
strengthened American control in the
Caribbean.
 Spanish-American War
 The anti-Communist hysteria in the 1950s
allowed for this man to carry a smear
campaign that gained him popularity and
eventually caused him to fall from grace.
 Joseph McCarthy
 “Lightning Warfare”
 Blitzkrieg
 Which two nations were on the US’s
side during WWI, but enemies during
WWII?
 Japan and Italy
 Kennedy’s assassination was
investigated by the?
 Warren Commission
 This movement wanted to solve
political and social problems created
by industrialization.
 Progressive
 The era in which alcohol was made
illegal.
 Prohibition
 Clinton made his strongest efforts to
tackle this problem at the start of his
presidency.
 Health Care Reform and the Federal
Deficit
 President Taft’s foreign policy was
most closely associated with this
term.
 Dollar Diplomacy
 What were the 5 long term causes of
WWI and WWII?
 Nationalism, Alliances, Imperialism,
Militarism, International Anarchy
 This is when one company has
exclusive control over the supply of a
particular product or service and
eliminates competition.
 Monopoly
 President during WWI?
 Woodrow Wilson
 Identify two famous suffragists (late 1800s
early 1900s).
 Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Lucretia Mott, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice
Paul
 Act created in May 1917, that authorized a
draft of young men for military service
 Selective Service Act
 German floating airships used in WWI
 Zeppelins
 Special war bonds to support the Allied cause
(used in both world wars)
 Liberty Bonds
 Nixon’s foreign policy?
 Détente
 This was headed by Bernard Baruch during
WWI, to oversee the nation’s war-related
production
 War Industries Board
 These acts were put into place to make it
illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds or
to discuss anything “disloyal, profane,
scurrilous, or abusive” about the American
gov’t or constitution.
 Espionage and Sedition Acts
 Trial over the teaching of evolution in school.
 Scopes trial
 Organizations created at the end of WWI;
part of Wilson’s 14 points.
 League of Nations
 Germany had to supply this; it is a payment
for economic injury suffered during the war.
 Reparations
 First man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in
1927.
 Charles Lindbergh
 First women to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
 Amelia Earhart
 Group of people including prominent writers,
who felt disconnected from their country and
its values
 Lost Generation
 Bars that operated illegally during
prohibition.
 Speakeasies
 Controversial trial that occurred during the
Red Scare of the 1920s that resulted in death.
 Sacco and Vanzetti
 In 1921 and 22, Harding’s Secretary of the
Interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly gave oildrilling rights on government oil fields.
 Teapot Dome Scandal
 This plan lent economic aid to help
war-ravaged nations recover from
devastation
 Marshall Plan
 This was agreed upon at the Yalta Conference
to be a new international peacekeeping
organization.
 United Nations
 US and French agreement to not declare war
on each other. 15 nations pledged not to use
the threat of war in their dealings with one
another.
 Kellogg-Briand Pact
 Practice of making high-risk investments in
hopes of getting a huge return (stock
market).
 Speculation
 Created in 1914 by Wilson and Congress; it
gives power to order firms to “cease and
desist” unfair business tactics.
 Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
 This amendment appealed Prohibition.
 21st
 This officially ended the Great War
 Versailles Treaty
 Reagan’s program that was essentially supply
side economics
 Reaganomics
 Created in 1932 by Hoover, this gave the govt
credit to a number of institutions, such as
large industries, railroads, and insurance
companies.
 Reconstruction Finance Corporation
 Investors could purchase a stock for only a
fraction of its price and borrow the rest
 Buying on margin
 Between 1931-1940 so much soil blew out of
the central and southern Great Plains that the
region became known as ?
 The Dust Bowl
 Highest import tax in US history was created
in 1930 to protect domestic industries from
foreign imports
 Hawley-Smoot tariff
 Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?
 Betty Friedman
 In Nov 1945, 24 Nazi defendants were tried at
this International Military Tribunal.
 Nuremberg Trials
 A series of acts that banned discrimination in
voting, schools, and jobs.
 Civil Rights Act
 In WWI the Central Powers were comprised
of?
 Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
 Vets from WWI and their families encamped
in Washington D.C. to demand immediate
payment of pension bonus that was
promised.
 Bonus Army
 Refer to the relief, recovery, and reform
programs of FDR’s administration that aimed
at combating the Great Depression.
 New Deal
 FDR’s favorite program that was established
in 1933, to put millions of young, unmarried
men to work maintaining forests, beaches,
and parks.
 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
 Govt funded projects to build public facilities
under FDR
 Public Works Programs
 Scientists that developed the atomic bomb
were organized in the top secret
____________________.
 Manhattan Project
 Paying out more money from the annual
federal budget than the government recieves
in revenues.
 Deficit spending
 Process of removing enemies and undesirable
individuals from power. This tactic was used
by Stalin.
 Purge
 Political leaders of the Axis Powers?
 Germany- Hitler
 Italy- Mussolini
 Japan- Hojo
 When it appeared that Britain could no longer
pay for supplies during WWII, FDR created
this; stating that if your neighbor’s house was
on fire you would not charge them to use
your hose.
 Lend-Lease Act
 Telegram sent to Mexico from Germany,
requesting Mexico to make an alliance and to
attack the US.
 Zimmerman Note
 Also known as Operation Overlord, this was
the invasion of France by the Allies.
 D-Day
 Discrimination or hostility, often violent,
directed at Jews.
 Anti-Semitism
 This stipulated that the Cuban
government could not enter any
foreign agreements and must give the
US the right to intervene whenever
necessary
 Platt Amendment
 The U.S. wanted to protect its trading
opportunities in China; thus they
advocated for this.
 Open Door Policy
 Churchill called on Americans to help keep
Stalin from enclosing any more nations
behind the ________________ of Communist
domination and oppression.
 Iron curtain
 Aid to Greece and Turkey after WWII; also
preventing the spread of communism to
these countries was apart of the….
 Truman Doctrine
 Alliance between Canada, USA, Belgium,
Britain, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Lux.,
Netherlands, Norway and Portugal, formed in
April 1949. It agreed that “an armed attack
against one or more of them…shall be
considered an attack against them all”
 North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO)
 They were accused by the House of Un-
American Activities; refused to respond to
questioning and served jail terms ranging
from 6months to a year.
 Hollywood 10
 An act passed in 1947 that allowed the
President to declare an 80-day cooling off
period during which strikers had to return to
work (reflected the widespread fear of
communism)
 Taft-Hartley Act
 Historic Supreme Court decision that
integrated schools
 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
 Boynton v. Virginia (1960) furthered the
desegregation of bus stations and interstate
buses. To test if the South would obey the
new laws, SNCC and CORE carried out …
 Freedom Rides
 How did the Great Society differ from
the New Frontier?
 Most programs passed through
congress in the Great Society
 Style of fighting on the Western Front
during WWI.
 Trench warfare
 In the late 1950s, many Americans
began to question the country’s
status as the strongest world power
because of this event.
 Sputnik
 This was a rebirth of African-
American cultural contributions to
America
 Harlem Renaissance
 Strategy used by MLK and the
African-American students who sat at
the “whites only” lunch counter in
North Carolina.
 Civil Disobedience
President Reagan’s foreign policy was
based on increasing what?
National Defense Spending
 This major event occurred during WWI and
pulled one of the Allies out of the war to deal
with domestic issues.
 Russian Revolution
 Nickname for the Progressive Party whose
platform included tariff reduction,
women’s suffrage, more regulation of
business, child labor ban, 8 hr workday, fed
workers compensation, and direct
elections
 Bull Moose Party
 This was created by an act with the same
name; it divided the country in 12 districts,
each with its own bank owned by member
banks.
 Federal Reserve System
 The Allies in WWII were?
 Russia, France, Serbia, Great Britain and later
the US
 Following the ___________ ___________,
the German army quickly swept through
Belgium and northern France.
 Schlieffen Plan
 Court case that legalized abortion.
 Roe v. Wade
 Giving into a competitor's demands in order
to keep the peace
 Appeasement
 “A new coalition that will fight for Indian
treaty rights and better conditions and
opportunities for our people.”
 American Indian Movement
 The first troops sent to Europe in WWI were
comprised of volunteers and National
Guardsmen.
 American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
Final Jeopardy
 In your group decide how many points you
wish to wager. You cannot wager more than
you have! If you have negative points you
cannot wager anything!
Final Jeopardy
 What are 2 post 9/11 changes in
America?
Final Jeopardy II
 Name two conditions that
contributed to the growth of industry
after the Civil War?
 Abundance of cheap labor; New
business and management strategies;
Natural and capital resources
Final Jeopardy III
 US followed a policy of expansionism
in the 1800s for several reasons; name
two.
 Desire to promote Anglo-Saxon
superiority; need for a strong navy;