2nd Semester Final Exam Study Guide

Unit 4: The Great Depression and the New Deal

  • Life in the 1920s: Economic instability emerged as the decade progressed.
  • Government's role: Examines government intervention in addressing economic crises.
  • Presidential philosophies: Compares approaches of two presidents in resolving the economic crisis.
  • Vocabulary:
    • Great Depression: Prohibition, Scopes Trial, speculation, Herbert Hoover, Stock Market Crash, Hoovervilles
    • New Deal: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Relief-Recover-Reform (the 3 R's), Court Packing Scheme, Security and Exchange Commission, Social Security Administration, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Unit 5: World War I & World War II

  • Vocabulary:
    • WWI: MAIN (Militarism, Alliance, Imperialism, Nationalism), Versailles Treaty, war reparations
    • WWII: Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease, European Theatre, Pacific Theatre, Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death March, U.S. military advancement through the Pacific Islands, Battle of Midway, invasion of Normandy, liberation of concentration camps, Holocaust, Rosie the Riveter, Japanese Internment Camps, Executive Order #8088, Atomic Bomb, Harry Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb

Unit 6: America's Foreign Policy After World War II

  • Post-WWII instability: Initial instability followed by the Cold War.
  • Cold War: Dominated American foreign policy until 1989.
  • Post-Cold War: Instability continues to shape foreign policy.
  • Vocabulary:
    • Post WWII: Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, Truman Doctrine, Containment, Berlin Airlift
    • Cold War: Iron Curtain, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Berlin Wall, Korean War, Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Post Cold War: 9/11

Unit 7: America's Domestic Policy After World War II

  • Post-WWII equality issues: Focus on equality among citizens, particularly African Americans.
  • Civil Rights Movement (1955): Aimed to secure equal rights for African Americans.
  • Vocabulary: Emmet Till, Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Little Rock 9, James Meredith and the University of Mississippi, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lunch Counter Sit-ins, Freedom Riders, Albany Movement, The Birmingham Campaign, Bull Connor, Martin Luther King, March on Washington, Freedom Summer, March on Selma