1. What was the result of the Spanish American War for the U.S.?
2. Tension between the U.S. and Germany increased during early 1917 because of what reasons?
3. During the Versailles Peace Conference the leaders of Britain, France, and Italy favored doing what to Germany?
4. Which nations made up the Allied powers during WWII?
5. After WWII, the Allies agreed that Germany should be what?
6. The immediate cause of the Japanese surrender was the _________?
7. List the motivating factors for American imperialism?
8. Which of the following was a cause for the Spanish America War?
9. Why were Americans were worried about Cuba being in the hands of a foreign power?
10. List the reasons as to why the U.S. wanted to construct a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
11. Who was the President involved in the building of the Panama Canal?
12. What was the name of the alliance that was formed after WW II in order to prevent Western Europe from the threat of communism?
13. In reality did the United States violate its neutrality by shipping armaments to Great Britain during WWI.?
14. The Great Depression was caused by what economic factors?
15. This "war" immediately followed WWII.
16. What was the effect of trench warfare upon WWI?
17. What was the Zimmermann telegram (note)?
18. Where was the Western front during WWI?
19. These nations made up the Triple Entente? Who were members of the Central Powers?
20. This treaty ended WWI.
21. What were the factors that created the U.S.'s hostility towards the Germans during WWI?
22. List the reasons as to why the U.S. entered WWI?
23. Who were the Muckrakers?
24. What were the origins of the Progressive ideals?
25. What was Teddy Roosevelt famous for?
26. When WWI began the Triple Alliance changed their name to what?
27. What was Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace called?
28. What was the most important and innovative aspect of Wilson's peace plan?
29. WWII officially started when what happened?
30. What was Social Darwinism?
31. What is a monopoly? Who would want to have this and why? (Workers? Industrialist?)
32. How did the U.S. try to buy land for the Panama Canal from?
33. Where was the Spanish-American War fought and why?
34. What is the definition of genocide? When and what was the Holocaust?
35. Who was the President of the United States that was in office during beginning of the Great Depression and believed in Laissez-Faire economics?
36. What were the major differences between the US and USSR during the cold war?
37. What were the "3 R's of the New Deal"?
38. What nations were considered the Axis Powers during WWII?
39. When the Nazi's came to power they overthrew what style of government set up after WWI?
40. What were the reasons that fascism gained support in Europe?
41. The paranoia of the 1950's America was caused by what?
42. Why, after WWII, was the Soviet Union seen as an aggressive nation as well as an enemy of the U.S.?
43. List the reasons that contributed to the U.S. becoming a world power?
44. How did Nationalism (or ultra-nationalism) helped to create WWI?
45. The main reason that so many nations were pulled into World War I was because of ?
46. The crisis in the ________________was the first step in triggering WWI.
47. What is the political philosophy that best describes Italy and Germany in 1940?
48. Where were the battlefronts in Europe during WWII located?
49. What are the roots or origin of anti-Semitism?
50. The Communist Revolution in Russia (1917) caused a panic in the United States. This panic was driven by the fear that communism would spread to the United States. What was the name of the panic?
Please define the following:
51. Mussolini
52. Stalin
53. Churchill
54. Hirohito
55. Roosevelt
56. D-Day was the Allied invasion of ?
57. The Atomic Bomb was first dropped on what city and country?
58. This was the code name for the research and development of the Atomic Bomb?
59. Name the leaders that were considered the Big Three at the end of W.W. II? (Yalta) (but who be at Potsdam)
60. What areas of Europe did Germany acquire without firing a single bullet?
61. At the start of WWII, did the U.S. undertake a policy of isolationism?
62. What were the causes of WWII?
63. What were some of the aspects of Italy's fascist state?
64. One of the most important results of the Spanish-American war was?
65. What did the Roosevelt Corollary allow the U.S. to do?
66. This doctrine was created to "contain" the spread of communism. It was first applied to Greece and Turkey. What was the name of this doctrine.
67. What was the Platt amendment?
68. Although the United States was supposedly neutral, prior to entrance into WW I the American public was siding with which side (and why)?
69. What industrialist made his money from the steel industry?
70. What two documents would the U.S. use to defend our foreign policy after WW II.?
71. How were the Korean War and Vietnam War both the results of the cold war?
72. Define "Nationalism"?
73. Define "Manifest Destiny"?
74. Define "Domino Theory"?
75. Define "Imperialism"?
76. Define "Isolationism"?
77. What was the main difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor?
78. What was Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression?
79. Know the significant U.S. doctrines, speeches and Amendments (in chronological order) that would profoundly influence U.S. foreign policy. (there are at least five)
80. Who made the final decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan (and why)?
81. List and explain the characteristic of the cold war?
82. What was the purpose behind the Marshall Plan?
83. Explain and give examples as to why an immigrant would leave her or his homeland (hint: there are at least four different reasons. . . social, political, religious, and economic).
84. List and explain an example of imperialism?
85. What was the Warsaw pact?
86. What was the Monroe Doctrine?
87. What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
88. What was the Truman Doctrine?
89. What happened to Japanese-Americans during WWII?
90. When did World War I start?
91. What was the Progressive Era known for? (list the characteristics)
92. What was dollar diplomacy? Where was this encouraged?
93. Defenders of Laissez-Faire economics believed that government should do what?
94. What was the League of Nations? Why was it created? Whose idea was it?
95. There was actually two "New Deals" - what was the purpose of each one? What president created these New Deals and why? In the end, were the programs successful?
96. The U.S. will enter WWII because of what?
97. The United States was totally neutral prior to our entrance into WW II.?
98. After WW II the United States engaged in a "Cold War" against what other nation?
99. What and when was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution? Who stated this?
100. Who were the Vietcong?
101. Where is Vietnam located?
102. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
103. When did World War II start for the United States? What about for Europe?
104. What happened at the Bay of Pigs? When and why?
105. When was the Berlin Wall built and why? When and why was it torn down?
106. Know the symbols for each of the following regimes or nations:
U.S.S.R.
Nazi Germany
Imperial Japan
Communist China (Maoist)
The United States
107. What was Sputnik? Space Race?
108. Know when the following Soviet leaders are in power?
Lenin
Khrushchev
Stalin
Gorbachev
109. When does the Soviet Union collapse as a country? Why did it eventually fail?
110. Who was Karl Marx? What did he look like?
111. What was the Berlin Airlift? Berlin Blockade?
112. Explain the connection between the Mujaheddin and the Taliban?
113. Why did the U.S. openly support the Shah who was known to be a right-wing dictator?
114. Who was the Ayatollah Khomeini? What country was he from?
115. Who is Fidel Castro? Who did he overthrow?
116. What was the Iranian hostage Crisis? When did this happen?
117. Why did the U.S. give military support to the Mujaheddin?
118. Put the following wars/military police action into the correct chronological order?
The Gulf War (1st)
September 11 Terrorist attacks
The Vietnam War
World War I
Spanish-American War
World War II
The Korean War
119. Which of the above wars/conflicts took place during the Cold War?
120. What was the "turning point" for the United States in World War II? What about in Vietnam?
121. What were the goals of the Progressive movement? Who was Jane Adams?
122. What was happening to sectors of the U.S. economy during the 1920s?
123. What, and when, was the Scopes Monkey Trial?
124. What was Social Darwinism (it is different for Darwinism)? Does this connect to the 1899 belief in "White Man's Burden"?
125. Who was Andrew Carnegie? Who was J.P. Morgan? Who was John D. Rockefeller?
126. Explain "open door policy"? Where was this used?
127. What was prohibition? What amendment passed this?
128. What amendment gave women the right to vote?
129. What was Yellow Journalism?
130. What were four freedoms? Who said this and why?
131. Did the U.S.S.R. have its own version of the Marshall plan? Was it as successful?
132. Why did the Japanese attack the U.S. in 1941?
133. Be able to find the NATO and WARSAW pact on a world map.
134. Define the following terms:
Kristallnacht
Lebensraum
Numemburg Laws
"Jim Crow" Laws
The Final Solution
Concentration camps
135. What is Blitzkrieg?
136. List the Presidents who were in office since W.W. I?
137. What was the Lusitasnia? Why is it important?
138. What was the Treaty of Versailles?
139. Know the map of Europe? During W.W. I; during W.W. II, during the Cold War, and currently.
140. MAKE SURE YOU STUDY!! THIS IS A BEAR OF AN EXAM!!!
2nd Semester Review Guide - General questions
1) Which groups benefitted from the reforms of the Progressive Era?
2) What were the goals of the Progressive Movement?
3) Reasons for American Imperialism?
4) What -ism promoted Anglo-Saxon superiority?
5) What is Free Enterprise?
6) What is the Gospel of Wealth?
7) Who is Andrew Carnegie?
8) What is a Robber Baron?
9) What is promoted in the concept of laissez faire
10) What is a muckraker?
11) Why did the American labor force move from "rural" areas to "urban" centers during the early 20th century?
12) What is Yellow journalism?
13) Who is Jane Adams?
14) Why did the US want a canal in the Caribbean?
15) Define the Roosevelt Corollary
16) Define the Monroe Doctrine
17) Define the Open Door Policy
18) Define the Platt Amendment
19) The concept of Imperialism
20) Important results of the Spanish-American War
21) Contributions to the dramatically changing American culture of the Roaring 20s
22) What are the New Deal's 3 R's?
23) What was prohibition?
24) What was a significant result of the stock market crash in 1929?
25) What is Fascism?
26) What are the 4 MAIN causes of WWI?
27) Which event symbolized the end of the Cold War?
28) What does the Hammer and Sickle symbolize?
29) What was the Marshall Plan?
30) What were some of the long-term effects of WWII?
31) What was the four freedoms speech (Skill question not content)?
32) What event causes American declaration of war in WW2?
33) What event ended WW2 in Asia?
34) Describe ways in which the US contained communism?
35) List two specific goals of the US during the Cold War (Political and Economic) ?
36) What was the "Red Scare (1920's and 1950's)?"
37) What is NATO?
38) What is the Warsaw Pact?
39) What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
40) What is the Domino Theory?
41) What was Dollar Diplomacy?
42) What are the reasons for failure in Vietnam?
43) What is the Tonkin Gulf incident?
44) What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
45) What is the Domino Theory?
46) What is a Ghetto in WW2 era Poland?
47) What is Lebensraum?
48) What is Kristallnact?
49) What are the Nuremburg Laws?
50) What are Jim Crow laws?
51) Name 3 groups targeted by the Nazi's during the holocaust?
52) What is the final solution?
53) What is anti-Semitism?
54) Explain the Iran Hostage Crisis and its connection to the Cold War?
55) Who are the Mujahedeen?
56) What is the Treaty of Versailles?
57) What were the Potsdam and Yalta conferences?
58) Who were the Vietcong?
59) What is McCarthyism?
60) What was the Truman Doctrine?
61) What is the significance of the sinking of the USS Maine?
62) What was the sinking of the Lusitania?
63) What was the Tet Offensive?
64) What is the significance of the D-Day invasion?
65) Archduke Franz Ferdinand, why do we care?