Final Exam Study Guide Review
This review will cover MOST of the
information on the final exam. Anything
listed in the packet is likely to appear on
the exam INCLUDING all questions.
PART ONE
• WW1
• Roaring 20’s
• Great Depression
WORLD WAR ONE
• 3 Central Powers:
Germany, Austria Hungary, Italy
World War One
• 3 Main Allies:
Great Britain, France, Russia (US
JOINS LATE)
WORLD WAR ONE
• Archduke Ferdinand:
He and his family assassinated in
Austria Hungary by Bosnian’s which
lead to the start of WW1
WORLD WAR ONE
• African Americans from the South
begin moving North for more
opportunities!!
–Work
–Escape poverty
–Safety
WORLD WAR ONE
• Woodrow Wilson:
-President during the war
-Created 14 points: Stopped
Germany from repeating behaviors
that lead to WW1 and made them
take blame for it.
WORLD WAR ONE
• Zimmerman Telegram: A letter to
Mexican leaders from Germany, saying
if they joined the war with them they
would take Texas, New Mexico, and
Arizona from the US and give it to them.
• Letter discovered in transit by Britain so they gave
us the letter!
WORLD WAR ONE
QUESTION: What are the contributing factors to
what started World War One? (5)
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Nationalism
Alliances
Social Darwinism
Imperialism
Arms Race: Who can make the best weapons
ROARING 20’s/Great Depression
• The Lost Generation:
The young people who participated in
WW1 as teens/early 20 years olds
whose values became very different
after the war. They started seeing that
America was intolerant and
materialistic.
ROARING 20’s/GREAT DEPRESSION
• Speakeasies:
Night clubs that illegally sold alcohol,
usually run by the Mafia
ROARING 20’s/ GREAT DEPRESSION
• Bootleggers: People who Illegally
sell, make, or transport alcohol
during the prohibition.
ROARING 20’s/GD
• Evolution:
Scientific theory of how life forms
developed over hundreds of years.
SCOPES TRIAL
ROARING 20’s/GD
• Stock Market Crash: On October 29,
1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as
investors traded some 16 million shares
on the New York Stock Exchange in a
single day.
• Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out
thousands of investors.
ROARING 20’s/GD
• Herbert Hoover:
President during the beginning of the
Great Depression who did very little to
help
Refused to give government help (money)
Hoovervilles
• Due to loss of homes, makeshift
houses were created by millions out
of cardboard, sometimes trash to live
in.
Economic Depression
• When the country goes into a
financial slump
–There is not enough money in a
countries economy and the
majority of the people suffer
Credit
• Arrangement for delayed payment of
a purchase
Public Works Projects
• Government funded (paid for)
construction projects to create jobs
for the unemployed.
Franklin D Roosevelt
• President duyring GD and WW2
• 2 New Deals
• He reassured Americans that we
were going to be all right. People
believed him
• President 4X
The New Deal
• 1933-1935
• Programs created for recovery, releif,
and reform
–100 Days: Completely revamped the
gov to start helping immediately!
Question: How was FDR better then
Hoover
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Fought the depression
Used government money to help the people
Fireside chats to keep Americans informed
2 New Deals
Set up programs to prevent this from
happening again
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PART TWO
• WW2
• Civil Rights Movement
• Random
WW2: Adolf Hitler
• German dictator/leader of the Nazi’s
• Wanted world domination
• Looked to terminate the entire Jewish race
and many more...
WW2: Benito Mussolini
• Italian leader
• Created Fascism which is like nationalism and
racism put together
• Nickname: Il Duce
WW2: Josef Stalin
• Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
• Very untrusting and would murder anyone
who he suspected would turn against him
• Worked with the US during WW2 but went
against us in the cold war.
WW2: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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United States superstar general
Named the Supreme Allied Commander
Responsible for D-Day
Later became President
WW2: Hideki Tojo
• Prime Minister of Japan
• Attacked US: Pearl Harbor
WW2: Pearl Harbor
• Japan’s attack on the US
• US Naval Base In Hawaii
• Got the US to enter WW2
WW2: DDAY
• Allies invade Normandy to save France from
German Occupation
• June 6th 1944
• Lead by Dwight D Eisenhower
WW2: 4 Main Axis Powers
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Germany
Italy
Japan
Austria Hungary
WW2: 4 Allied Powers
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US
Great Britain
Soviet Union
France
WW2: Holocaust
• Nazi’s crime of killing more then 12 million
people
• Jewish People were targeted the most
• Concentration camps
Question: Describe the Holocaust
Question: Why did the US go after
Germany before Japan?
Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther
King Jr.
• Most famous and influential civil rights leader
• PEACEFUL PROTEST
– Sit ins
– Speeches
– Marches
• Assassinated 1968
John F Kennedy
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President during the 1960’s
Worked towards equality
NASA
Assassinated in Texas during a parade
Malcolm X
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African American Activist
Believed in self defense if needed
Against integration
Assassinated in 1965
Rosa Parks
• African American civil rights activist
• Started the Bus Boycotts!
• Refused to give up her seat to a white man
Emmett Till
• 15 year old boy attacked and killed for flirting
with white women
• Civil Rights Movement used his story to
spread the word about unjust world they lived
in
March On Washington
• Huge Civil Rights demonstration through
Washington DC
• 1963, lead by MLK
–I have a dream speech
Freedom Summer
• Voter registration drive for African
American’s in the South
• Lead by college students to start with
• 1964
Little Rock Nine
• 9 students enrolled in Central High School in
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Governor sent in National Guard to prevent
them from entering school
• President had to send troops in to make sure
they could go to school!
Lyndon B Johnson
• Took over as President after Kennedy was
assassinated
• Continued Civil Rights efforts
Selma, Alabama
• MLK’s efforts to march from Selma to the
Capital to take a stand about raise awareness
about voting rights.
• Attacked by protestors
• Took three days to get there
• It worked! Voting Rights Act passed later that
year
Sit In
• Protest where people sit in a planned
location and refuse to move for a planned
amount of time
• Form of peaceful protest
Bus Boycott
• To end segregation on busses, all African
Americans and some white people refused to
ride the buses in many cities across America
• Lead buses to be unable to run!
Connect Civil Rights Movement to
events in your own life or in current
events
Difference and Similarities between
MLK and MALCOLM X
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