Unit 3 (The Great War + The Great Depression)

  1. Describe the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance.
  2. Why did President Wilson chose William Jennings Bryan to serve as his secretary of state in 1912?
  3. Why did the government pass the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act during World War I?
  4. What triggered the outbreak of World War I in 1914?
  5. What was the Selective Service Act of 1917?
  6. What did President Wilson call for in his Fourteen Points?
  7. What was the Scopes Trial?
  8. What did the Harding Administration support in an effort to create prosperity?
  9. How did the Great Depression affect the American family in the 1930s?
    1. What factor diluted the influence of women in politics in the 1920s?
    2. What did popular culture and consumer goods have in common in the 1920s?
    3. What accounted for the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States in the 1920s?
    4. What did Roosevelt need to do in order to win the presidential election in 1932?
    5. Which New Deal agency employed artists, musicians, actors, journalists, academics, poets, and novelists?
    6. What is the New Deal coalition?
    7. To what was President Roosevelt referring to when he said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?
    8. What is the FDIC? What did it do?
    9. How did the framers of Social Security agree to fund the program?
    10. What occurrence proved that opposition to the New Deal had increased by the end of 1938?
    11. What was the overall impact of the New Deal?