2013 MIDTERM REVIEW PACKET-US HISTORY
This packet, along with your past tests, should be used to study for the Midterm
Exam. The Midterm contains multiple choice, matching, and short answer/essay
questions.
You should use the following tests to study for the exam:
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World War I
The Roaring 20s
The Great Depression and the New Deal
World War II
The Cold War (Ch. Sec 1-3 (skipping the Korean War)
Chapter 16: World War I and its Aftermath
Section 1:
Causes of World War I (MAIN)
Franz Ferdinand
Black Hand
Russia and its support of the Slavic people
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Should be able to identify the nations that were part of the Allies, Central Powers, and/or neutral.
What sides does America/Americans take? And why?
Zimmerman Telegram
Lusitania
German U-Boats
Sussex Pledge
Propaganda
Section 2:
National War Labor Board
War Industries Board
Victory gardens
Committee on Public Information
George Creel
Four Minute Men
Liberty Bonds
Fuel Administration
Food Administration
Women in military
African Americans in WWI
Great Migration
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Schenck v. US
Section 3:
Trench warfare
Airplanes-first use as scouts
Dogfights
convoys
Russian revolution-Lenin and Bolsheviks
Battle of the Argonne Forest (importance)
armistice
“Big Four” at peace conference
Fourteen Points (know them)
“self-determination”
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
U.S. Senate response to Treaty of Versailles
Section 4:
Inflation and Strikes (Seattle, Boston, Steel Strike)
Why the race riots after the war?
Red Scare (1st one—remember you have 2 on this test)
Palmer Raids and J.Edgar Hoover
Harding—“back to normalcy” (1920 election)
Chapter 17: The Jazz Age/1920’s
Section 1:
Harding Administration: Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge—how was he different than Harding?
Supply-side economics
Hoover and Cooperative Individualism
What was the Myth of Isolationism
The Dawes Plan
Washington Conference
Kellog Briand Pact
Section 2:
Mass production and the assembly line
Model T (or Tin Lizzie)—why was it so revolutionary?
Social impact of the automobile
Why were there so many new consumer goods (disposable income) and what were they?
Airline—birth of—how does that affect America?
-Charles Lindbergh
Radio—political impacts as well as social
The new idea of credit
Mass Advertising
Managerial revolution
Welfare Capitalism
--open shops and decline of unions
Who did not prosper from the economic boom?
--Farmers/Crisis
Section 3:
Nativism and Sacco-Vanzetti
KKK—why return?
Women in the 1920’s
--change in workforce
-change socially
Fundamentalism
--evolution vs. creationism and the Scopes Trial
Prohibition—speakeasies…Volstead Act, 21st Amendment
Section 4:
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Jazz Singer
Sports—Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth. Gertrude Ederle
Section 5:
Harlem Renaissance
--Great Migration
Writers—Langston Hughes
Jazz/Blues—Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith
Cotton Club
Why was it significant that African Americans were now voting in the North?
Oscar Depriest
NAACP—lynching bill
Marcus Garvey /UNIA/”back to Africa”
Chapter 18 and Chapter 19: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Section 1:
1928 Election—Hoover becomes President
Stock Market—difference between a bull/bear market
What is buying on margin?
What happened when the Stock brockers made “margin calls”?
Speculation
Be able to explain how/why the Stock Market crashed
Black Tuesday
Bank runs
Roots/Causes of the Great Depression (other than SMC)
--Uneven Distribution of Income
--Loss of Export Sales
--Mistakes by the Federal Reserve
Section 2:
Hobos
“Dust Bowl”—what was it/who was affected/Okies/where did they go?
Movies/Radio shows that were used as Escapes from the Depression
Steinbeck
Section 3:
What did Hoover do to try to ease the Depression?
--Reconstruction Finance Corporation
--what was his stand on direct relief…did it change?
Bonus Army
Chapter 19: Section 1:
Roosevelt and the New Deal
-Hundred Days—what happened?
-bank holiday
-fireside chats
1st New Deal Agencies
-FDIC
-SEC
-HOLC
-FCA
-AAA
-NRA
-CCC
-PWA
Section 2:
Criticism of the New Deal—Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Townsend Plan
WPA
Wagner Act
SSA
Section 3:
-court packing plan
-recession of 1937 (arguments as to how to fix the economy)
-what was the legacy of the New Deal
Chapter 20 and 21: World War II
Section 1:
Mussolini
-fascism
-blackshirts
Stalin
-collectives
Hitler
-Nazi Party
-Mein Kampf
Military and Japan
-Manchuria
Nye Committee
Neutrality Act of 1935
Axis Powers
Section 2:
Austrian Anschluss
Munich Conference
Appeasement—who appeased who and why??
Danzig
Nazi-Soviet Pact—secret protocol
Blitzkrieg
Fall of France and Maginot Line
Dunkirk—what happened
Churchill
Battle of Britain—luftwaffe vs. Royal Air Force
Section 3:
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
Gestapo
JewsTrying to Flee—
-Limits on Jewish Immigration and International Response.
-St. Louis Affair
Wannsee Conference
Concentration/Extermination camps
Section 4:
Destroyers for Bases
America First Committee
Lend-Lease Act
Hemispheric Defense Zone
Atlantic Charter
What does the U.S do to hinder Japanese aggression?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Chapter 21-Section 1
War Production Board
Office of War Mobilization
Segregated army
Double “V” campaign
Tuskagee Airmen
Women –in the military (WASPS)
Section 2:
Fall of the Philippines
-Macarthur
-Bataan Death March
Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Battle for North Africa—El Alamein
Battle in the Atlantic—use of convoys
Battle of Stalingrad
Section 3:
Women working
Bracero Program
Zoot Suit Riots
Japanese American Relocation
Office of Price Administration
Victory Gardens
Section 4:
Casablanca Conference
Invasion of Sicily—“the soft underbelly”
Tehran Conference
Operation Overlord—D-Day
Island-hopping in Japan
--Tarawa, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands
Battle for Guadalcanal
Kamikaze attacks and Leyte Gulf
Section 5:
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day
Iwo Jima
Firebombing Japan
Okinawa
--terms of surrender
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
V-J Day
United Nations created
Nuremberg Trials
Chapter 22: The Cold War (Sec 1-3)
Section 1:
Yalta Conference—who/what was discussed/Outcomes
What are the Soviet issues post-war?
What are the US issues post-war?
Potsdam Conference-who/what was discussed/Outcomes
Iron Curtain—
Satellite Nations
Section 2:
George Kennan and the Long Telegram
--idea of containment
What happened in Iran??
Truman Doctrine –what did it say? (Greece and Turkey)
Marshall Plan, Soviet Response
Merger of Germany zones, Soviet response
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
(SKIP KOREAN WAR---cover it after Midterm)
Section 3:
Red Scare
--HUAC
-Hollywood 10
Alger Hiss and perjury
The Rosenberg Trial
Project Venona
McCarthyism—
McCarran Act
--his tactics—who did he attack?
--his downfall and censure