Final Study Guide

Question 1

The 3 countries of the Triple Entente

Answer 1

Great Britain, France, and Russia

Question 2

Name the 3 countries of the Central Powers

Answer 2

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire

Question 3

What were the details of the Schlieffen Plan in WWI was the German military strategy to

Answer 3

attack france in the east and russia in the west

Question 4

Although the Allies won the War, what country did not enjoy the benefits because it surrendered to Germany almost a year before Germany was defeated?

Answer 4

russia

Question 5

The spark that started the War occurred when the future leader of what region was assassinated?

Answer 5

Spain

Question 6

On which front did the Germans battle the French?

Answer 6

western front

Question 7

Know the estimated human costs on the WWI battlefields according to your book:

Answer 7

8.5 million dead soldiers, 21 million wounded

Question 8

What treaty between the Allied powers and Germany was signed exactly 5 years after the assassination of Francis Ferdinand?

Answer 8

treaty of versailles

Question 9

What was the final straw that brought the U.S. into WWI against Germany? What was the name of the message from Germany to Mexico?

Answer 9

the Zimmerman note

Question 10

The Boom refers to the decade of the

Answer 10

20s

Question 11

The bust refers to the decade of the

Answer 11

30s

Question 12

The War that followed the Bust is

Answer 12

WWII

Question 13

80 percent of Americans in 1929 had no ______ at all.

Answer 13

savings

Question 14

A major cause of the Great Depression was the ___ (name the institution) artificially manipulating interest rates.

Answer 14

stock market

Question 15

The AAA (a New Deal Agency) had ___________ pigs slaughtered and burned at a time when many Americans were hungry and out of work.

Answer 15

6.4 million

Question 16

What comes the closest to the highest rate of unemployment during the Great Depression?

Answer 16

25% (1 out of 4)

Question 17

Know the following states that were directly affected by the “Dust Bowl” that hit the Great Plains.

Answer 17

Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska

Question 18

What were “Hoovervilles”?

Answer 18

A “Hooverville” was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless

Question 19

What was the Bonus Army?

Answer 19

The Bonus Army was a group of 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.

Question 20

During the mid-to-late 1920s (even before the Great Depression Started), how were farmers affected by the low prices of wheat?

Answer 20

Farmers were affected by the low prices of wheat because they had been supplying european countries so once europe got back on its feet the farmers are making to many crops so they had excess making low prices and bankruptcy for farmers

Question 21

What is “Buying on margin”?

Answer 21

the practice of buying an asset where the buyer pays only a percentage of the asset’s value and borrows the rest from the bank or a broker

Question 22

What is Social Security”?

Answer 22

any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income.

Question 23

Name the 2 the presidents during the Great Depression

Answer 23

Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 24

What is a Flapper?

Answer 24

a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

Question 25

“The chief business of the American people is __________ .”

Answer 25

business

Question 26

Who said it? ________________________ (hint: a president) (“The chief business of the American people is ________."

Answer 26

Calvin Coolidge

Question 27

For the following 5 questions, write in the letter that matches the section: A) Lucky Lindy, B) Great Depression Parts 1 and 2, C) Red Scare, D)All That Jazz, E) Monkey Trial 1) This section featured information about the New Deal 2)This section focused on Communism and its spread to the USA 3)This section was about the first Transatlantic flight 4)This section described and incident where science came into conflict with religious belief 5)This section featured information about Louis Armstrong

Answer 27

This section featured information about the New Deal (b) This section focused on Communism and its spread to the USA (c) This section was about the first Transatlantic flight (a) This section described and incident where science came into conflict with religious belief (e) This section featured information about Louis Armstrong(d)

Question 28

Know that these countries were ruled by fascist dictators by the end of the 1930s.

Answer 28

Spain Italy Germany

Question 29

The earliest incident leading up to WWII in Asia was Japan invading__________ in 1931. It is a region of China.

Answer 29

Manchuria

Question 30

These two world leaders signed a nonaggression pact one week before the invasion of Poland that started WWII. (Also, they secretly divided Poland among themselves)

Answer 30

Hitler, Stalin

Question 31

Know the 3 following factors that kept countries from challenging the expanding Axis empires

Answer 31

A global depression Memories of WWI The belief in isolationism

Question 32

What happened at the Munich Conference of 1938? Did Hitler keep his promise?

Answer 32

The settlement gave Germany the Sudetenland starting 10 October, and de facto control over the rest of Czechoslovakia; no

Question 33

Know the 3 major Axis Powers in WWII

Answer 33

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 34

Know why the Maginot Line failed and what it was.

Answer 34

the Germans attacked France in the spring of 1940 using blitzkrieg

Question 35

What battle is considered the major turning point in the war against Japan in the Pacific?

Answer 35

Battle of Midway

Question 36

D-Day refers to who invades whom?

Answer 36

Allies invading Nazi- occupied france

Question 37

What was the German war strategy used in WWII to overwhelm the enemy?

Answer 37

Blitzkrieg

Question 38

Around how many Jews were put to death as a result of Hitler’s Final Solution?

Answer 38

1.7 million murdered

Question 39

Know why the Maginot Line failed and what it was.

Answer 39

the Germans attacked France in the spring of 1940 using blitzkrieg

Question 40

What Battle was Hitler’s last major offensive in Europe? Was it successful?

Answer 40

Battle of the bulge; nope

Question 41

Know the following 3 blunders of Adolf Hitler during WWII

Answer 41

1) Declaring war on the USA 2) Invasion of Russia 3) Putting so many resources into the extermination of the Jews

Question 42

Which country saw the largest number of Jews killed in the Holocaust?

Answer 42

poland

Question 43

At which location did Operation Overlord meet the most resistance by the Germans? What was the codename of the beach? (hint: over 2,000 Americans were killed here)

Answer 43

omaha beach

Question 44

Know the following Japanese cities that were sites of atomic explosions.

Answer 44

Hiroshima Nagasaki

Question 45

What organization was created after WWII (1945) to prevent another war from starting? It included both the USA and the USSR.

Answer 45

The united nations

Question 46

What country saw the most casualties during WWII? (both civilian and in terms of soldiers)

Answer 46

soviet union

Question 47

What battle cost the USSR over one million soldiers and it put the Germans on the defensive on the Russian front?

Answer 47

battle of Stalingrad

Question 48

The Western European powers used an unsuccessful policy of appeasement against Hitler before the start of WWII. Put the following 5 occasions of appeasement in proper order (first through last).

Answer 48

A) Hitler is allowed to take the Rhineland. B) Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia. C) The Anschluss is allowed to occur (the uniting of Austria with Germany). D) Hitler is allowed to take the Sudetenland. E) Hitler announces that he will no longer follow the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 49

Karl Marx-most famous for what?

Answer 49

creating the idea of communism

Question 50

Know this #1

Answer 50

Vladimir Lenin-first leader of the USSR

Question 51

Know this #2

Answer 51

Joseph Stalin-most infamous leader of the USSR

Question 52

Totalitarianism vs. Communism (Which is political? Which is economic? What is the connection between the two?

Answer 52

totalitarianism: political communism: economic both: control methods, basic principles, and government philosophies.

Question 53

What was the Iron Curtain?

Answer 53

an ideological barrier separating soviet union from the outside world

Question 54

Truman Doctrine/Containment-what was the policy of containment?

Answer 54

The US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism.

Question 55

Know what The Marshall Plan was

Answer 55

(billions of dollars in aid given to 16 nations after WWII)

Question 56

Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek

Answer 56

Mao Zedong won (communists)

Question 57

Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism? What was it?

Answer 57

politician; The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence

Question 58

Edward R. Murrow-How did he help stop McCarthy?

Answer 58

reported on the facts of McCarthy's tactics, without condemning or slandering him

Question 59

Ike (know when he served as president)

Answer 59

1953 to 1961

Question 60

“military-industrial complex”-who said it? And what does it mean?

Answer 60

eisenhower giving too much money to military

Question 61

Know Nikita Khrushchev (when he led the USSR)

Answer 61

1941–45

Question 62

Who was Fidel Castro? Which country did he rule? When?

Answer 62

dictator of cuba 1959-2008

Question 63

What was the “Bay of Pigs Invasion”? Was it successful?

Answer 63

an american invasion to overthrow Castro unsuccessful

Question 64

Which president’s program for governing was called the “New Frontier”?

Answer 64

Kennedy

Question 65

When did LBJ serve as president?

Answer 65

1963 to 1969

Question 66

Know the following about Ho Chi Minh.

Answer 66

He was a Communist leader in Vietnam (fought against the USA and the South Vietnamese) If elections were held after the “temporary” division in 1955, he would’ve been elected He received support from China and the USSR

Question 67

Which President famously urged in a speech in Berlin, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”?

Answer 67

ronald reagan

Question 68

The number of U.S. soldiers killed in Vietnam?

Answer 68

60,000

Question 69

What was the result of the First Gulf War? (It ended in March of 1991)

Answer 69

an Iraqi defeat and retreat from Kuwait

Question 70

What is meant by the phrase Guns and Butter?

Answer 70

military and domestic spending

Question 71

Who was John Henry Hammond? Name 3 famous musicians he discovered

Answer 71

John Henry Hammond II was an American record producer, civil rights activist, and music critic bob dylan, Aretha Franklin, Bruce springsteen,

Question 72

The _________________ Theory convinced JFK to intervene more in Vietnam to stop the spread of Communism.

Answer 72

Domino

Question 73

What effect did the Tet Offensive have on the American Public?

Answer 73

made americans want the war to end

Question 74

Which U.S. president was in office when the Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurred?

Answer 74

Lyndon Johnson

Question 75

What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident? How did the U.S. Government Respond

Answer 75

battleships had been fired on by north vietnamese President Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina.

Question 76

Which President was in power when the USA recognized (accepted the existence) Communist China?

Answer 76

reagan

Question 77

Which Cold War president was the most suspicious of big government domestic programs?

Answer 77

reagan

Question 78

What was the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989?

Answer 78

a massacre of young adults (college) because they protested (covered up)

Question 79

Know the countries that were part of the Eastern (Communist) bloc (side)

Answer 79

Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.

Question 80

The term “evil empire” (from President Reagan) in your reading was directed at the past and present governments of what country?

Answer 80

Soviet Union/ Russia

Question 81

Which Cold War President of the USA of the following can best be described as a “realist”? (as opposed to an idealist)

Answer 81

Nixon

Question 82

Which 3 countries make up French Indochina?

Answer 82

Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos)

Question 83

What’s the connection between Brown V. Board of Education and Plessey V. Ferguson?

Answer 83

In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that separate accommodations based on race were constitutional. 58 years later in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954) the court ruled that separate accommodations based on race were inherently unequal and so unconstitutional.

Question 84

Who was Jackie Robinson? What is he most famous for?

Answer 84

Famous baseball player first african american player

Question 85

Rosa Parks created the spark that led to the famous Bus Boycott in which city?

Answer 85

Montgomery

Question 86

How did Thurgood Marshall make history twice? First as a lawyer? Then as a judge?

Answer 86

Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S. Marshall was a towering figure who became the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.

Question 87

How did the famous Indian leader, Gandhi, influence MLK Jr.?

Answer 87

He drew heavily on the Gandhian idea of nonviolence in his own activism. King wrote that Gandhi was a "guiding light" for him. "Nonviolence" is more than simply agreeing that you won't physically attack your enemy.

Question 88

In 1963, MLK gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of which monument?

Answer 88

The lincoln memorial

Question 89

The Little Rock 9 brought integration to what type of school? In which state?

Answer 89

High School Arkansas

Question 90

“Bull” Connor was the infamous police chief in which city/state?

Answer 90

Birmingham, Alabama

Question 91

According to your book, what was the estimated attendance to the 1963 “March on Washington”?

Answer 91

250,000

Question 92

How long was the march from Selma to Montgomery?

Answer 92

5 day 54 mile march

Question 93

The tallest monument in Washington D.C. is dedicated to whom?

Answer 93

Washington

Question 94

What is the most important event for each decade? And defend your answer with at least 2 sentences.

Answer 94

1920s: Women were given the right to vote 1930s: The great depression__ 1940s: __WWII___ 1950s: The cold War & the Korean War 1960s: ___Veitnam War__ 1970s: __Civil RIghts campaign___