Ch. 19

Causes of WW I

• Nationalism
• Imperialism
• Militarism
• Alliance System
• Assasination of Franz Ferdinand

Trench Warfare

• why it came about, what it was like

American neutrality/ entry into the war

• British blockade, u-boats Lusitania
• Zimmermann note

America mobilizes

• American production, fresh troops, technology impacts war

Homefront

• War Industries Board, war economy
• Hoover’s Food Administration
• Selling the war- propaganda and the creel Comission
• Anti-immigrant hysteria, espionage and sedition acts
• The Great Migration
• Women’s roles
• Flu pandemic of 1918

Wilson and the war

• Fourteen points, League of Nations
• Treaty of Versailles- what did it say, what were the impacts

Ch. 20

Postwar Issues

• Red Scare
• A. Mitchell Plamer and the Palmer Raids
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Limiting immigration, KKK rises again
• Labor unrest

Harding’s Administration

• corruption, Teapot Dome
• Fordney-McCumber Tarriff

Business in the 20’s

Automobile boom

Coolidge and business

Buying on credit

Ch. 21

Changing wasys of life

• rural v. urban
• Prohibition- 18th Ammendment- speakeasies, bootleggers, organized crime
• Science v. religion- Scopes, new evangelists
• Women in the 20’s- flappers, double standard, women in the workplace
• Art Deco
• Harlem Rennaisance- NAACP, UNIA- aims, leaders, the arts- Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Bessie Smith, Zora Thurston Neale, Claude McKay, Louis Armstrong

New Freedom v. fear- understand how things were changing, the backlash against change

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Ch. 22

Nation’s sick econ.

-farmers

Industry

• consumers
• Hoover’s philosophy
• Stock market Crash Oct. 29, 1929 Black Tuesday
• Bank runs, failures
• Worldwise depression
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• Causes of depression

Depression Hardship

• shantytowns and Hoovervilles
• Hoover and the Bonus Army
• Dust Bowl
• Hoover’s Boulder Dam project, Federal Home Loan Bank Act, Reconstruction Finance Corporation- why these didn’t work

Ch. 23

FDR elected to office

• what was the “Brain Trust”, what was the New Deal
• The hundred days- why important, what happened
• Fireside chats- what were they, why important
• Glass-Steagall Act, Federal Securities Act- what did these establish?
• Agricultural Adjustment Act, Tennessee Valley Authority- who were these aimed at, what did they do?
• Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration, NIRA, Civil Works Administration- what did these do?
• Home Owners Loan Corparation, Federal Housing Administration, Federa; Emergency relief Administration- what did these do?
• What were the criticisims of the New Deal
• What happened to the AAA?  What was the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment act? What did the Farm Security Administration do?
• What was the Works Progress Administration and the National Youth Administration?
• Wagner Act
• What were the main forms of entertainment in the 1930’s?
• What kinds of movies did people favor in the 1930’s?  Why?
• What was the Federal Art Project, what did it do?
• What were the impacts of the New Deal

Ch. 24

• What is nationalism?  Explain how Nationalism impacted Germany, Italy,
• and Japan in the 20’s and 30’s
• What is Fascism?  How is it different than Communism/Socialism
• Know Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo
• Why/how did the Nazis gain power in Germany?
• What situation led to Japanese aggression in the 30’s- know about the Meiji Era, Emperor Hirohito (Showa), militarization, and Shinto.
• Know about the Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone, Mussolini’s attack on Ethiopia, the response form the US
• What is isolationism?  Why was it prevalent in America in the 20’s and 30’s?
• Neutrality Acts- what were they, what did they do?
• Rape of Nanking
• What was the Anschluss, what did Hitler do in the Sudetenland?
• What was the Munich Agreement?
• Non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin- why did they do it, how long did it last?
• Blitzkrieg- know what it is
• “The Phony War”- what was it? How did it end?
• What was the Maginot Line? How did it fail?
• Fall of France, Battle of Britain
• Holocaust- what was it?  Why did it happen?  What was Kristalnacht, the Nuremburg Laws, and the Final Solution?
• Rape of Nanking- what was it, who was involved
• What was “cash and carry”, Lend-Lease
• Know who the Axis powers were, the principal Allied powers
• Pearl Harbor- what, when, impacts

Ch. 25

• America goes to war- recruitment and discrimination, the “production miracle”
• Economic controls- what was the Office of Price Administration- what did it do and why?
• American strategy in Europe- Battle of the North Atlantic, Operation Torch and the Italian Campaign, bombing raids, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, fall of Germany
• Eastern Front- early progress of Germany’s Operation Barbarosa, Battle of Stalingrad
• American strategy in Pacific- naval battles- Coral Sea, Midway. Island hopping- what was it, what was the point, significance of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
• Yalta Conference- what was it?
• What was the Manhattan Project?  What were the reasons offered for dropping the atomic bomb?  Know the handout on the atomic bomb
• Nuremberg Trials- what, who, why?
• Occupation of Japan- McArthur’s role- results
• Home front- rationing, roles of women, spending patterns, Japanese Internment, know the history in your hands-homefront handout

Ch 26

UN- what is it, when established

Potsdam Conference- what was it, end results

US v USSR- why tension, Iron Curtain

Truman Doctrine- was a response to what, said what

The Marshall Plan- what, impact

Berlin Airlift- what, why, result

NATO- what

Warsaw Pact –what

China becomes communist- know the leaders, know the basic outline of the conflict, who did the US support, what were the results

Korean War- What was N Korea?  S Korea?  Who attacked who?  Wow did US become involved, what was McArthur’s involvement, what was the final outcome?

McCarthy and HUAC- what, why, what were the tactics like, the result for those accused, for McCarthy?

Spys- Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs- what were they accused of?  What happened?

Brinkmanship- what was it?

CIA- Latin America and Middle East- what did they do

Eisenhower Doctrine- what was it?

Hungarian Uprising- Why, results

U-2 Incident- what, impacts

Ch. 27

GI Bill- what, impacts

Suburbanization- know the handout

Gender roles- what were they, why

1948 election- who won

Eisenhower- when elected, who ran with him, what were his policies

Lifestyles of the 50’s- baby boom, medical advances, franchises, know the “New Look” handout, impact of cars, TV, the Beats, rock, the teenager

The other America- urban poor, urban renewal, civil rights

Ch. 28

Election of 1960- who ran, who won, why

New Frontier- what were the programs, impacts

Flexible Response v. Brinkmanship

Cuba- situation pre revolution, post revolution, Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis- when, what, impacts

Berlin Crisis- what was it, how resolved

Hot Line- what, why

Space Race- who was first in space, who was 1st person in space, who was 1st American in space, who built the American space program,what were the names of the phases of the space program, what was Kennedy’s goal for the country

Kennedy’s assassination- when, where, impacts

Warren Commission- what, why- know P’s Pets- Lee Harvey Oswald

LBJ’s Great Society- what, impacts

Ch. 29

Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education

Little Rock Crisis- what was Eisenhower’s response?

Montgomery Buss Boycott- what, why

March at Birmingham and Selma- what, significance

Martin Luther King, Jr- what was his approach to fighting racism

Freedom rides- what, significance

24th Ammendment- what did it do?

Malcom X- what did he do, what happened to him

Kerner Comission- what was it, what were its findings?

Ch. 30

Vietnam- know timeline from 1945-1975 (review notes, Moving toward conflict worksheet)

Ho Chi Minh- who was he

Ngo Dinh Diem – who was he

Response to Vietnam at home- Silent Majority v. protesters

Know 1968- Tet offensive, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated, election of 1968

1973 last combat troops leave Vietnam, 1975 fall of Saigon

Ch. 32

Nixon administration- new Conservatism, New Federalism, “Law and Order” politics, China

Watergate- review worksheet, notes

Ford- how did he become president, what was he known for?

Carter- why elected, Camp David Accords, Iran Hostage Crisis

Ch. 33

Regan- what did he do before politics, why elected, “Reganomics”

Regan and the Soviet Union- what was Regan’s stance towards the Soviets?

Fall of communism- Gorbachev, who what did he do Peristroika, Glastnost –what was it

That brings communism down?

Know Good Bye, Lenin!

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