Use your Practice Tests and your Core Concept Cards to study. Study Chapters Reviewing your Graphic Organizers & Summary Packets will help.

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1 Estright - 2 nd Semester US Studies Exam Study Guide Info Use your Practice Tests and your Core Concept Cards to study. Study Chapters Reviewing your Graphic Organizers & Summary Packets will help. Here are the topics & page numbers. (Hint: the bulk of the common assessment questions come from Chapters ) Topics: Page Number(s): 1920s Literature, Music s sports heroes 734 Automobile, Radio in 1920s Automobile Coolidge, Harding, Foreign Policy Critics, Lifestyles in 1920s Cultural changes in 1920s Harlem Renaissance 734 Harlem Renaissance John Scopes, Scopes Trial 739 Lifestyles in 1920s Lifestyles, fads in the 1920s Louis Armstrong, Eugene O Neill Motel, Business in 1920s Nativists, KKK 739 Nightly broadcasts Nineteenth Amendment 725 Officials of Harding administration 718 Prohibition 724 Recession 718 Red Scare, Unions 737 Red Scare Repeal 18 th Amendment Scandals, President Hardidng s administration Scopes Trial 739 Support for Hoover in US interests in Latin America 721 Women s rights African Americans in 1930s 767 Bonus Army 751 Depression s effect on families 749 Depression s effect on workers 749 Depression s effect on women Dust Bowl (Several Qs about this!)

2 Economic trouble mid 1920s FDIC 757 Franklin Roosevelt s election, New Deal Franklin Roosevelt & the Supreme Court Franklin Roosevelt s election, New Deal Hoover s response to the depression Hundred Days Impact of Depression on women 766 Indian New Deal, Native Americans 1930s 768 Movies in 1930s, Arts of the depression 769 New Deal critics New Deal critics, Liberty League 760 New Deal balance sheet 769 New Deal 754 New Deal balance sheet Painters & photographers of the depression Social Security Act 762 Stock market crash 747 Truth-in-Securities Act 757 TVA critics Wagner Act Adolf Hitler African Americans in the military 787 African American employment in WWII Aggression leads to war Aggression in Atlantic Charter 782 Bracero program 788 D-day invasion D-day invasion Description of Hitler & Mussolini Final days of WWII in Europe 794 Freedom analogy 774 Gasoline rationing during WWII 785 Germany annexes western Czechoslovakia 779 Germany s violation of the Treaty of Versailles 779 Holocaust 799 Impact of geography on Pacific war Island-hopping campaign Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 783 Japanese surrender to Allies Military campaign during WWII Nuremberg Trials 799 Pacific campaigns during WWII

3 Potsdam Declaration 797 Relocation camps 787 Result of bombing of Pearl Harbor 783 Route of Allied Pacific advances Similarities between island battles 790 Stalin s rule of Soviet Union 774 US economy during WWII US response to beginning of WWII 780 US policy of isolationism 777 US reaction to overseas aggression in 1930s 777 WWII Europe in early Adversaries in the Cold War Alliance for Progress 824 Arms race 825 Berlin blockade 812 Censuring McCarthy Cold War alliances 813 Cold War Cold War effects in Africa, Asia Cold War effects, American life 837 Cold War competition in Korea 818 Collapse of the Soviet Union 836 Containment 811 Cuban Missile Crisis 823 Detente Events of Fall of communism in Eastern Europe Fall of communism in the Soviet Union Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 828 Impact of Vietnam War 831 Korean war Korean war map (several questions) 817 Marshall Plan 812 Military presence in Vietnam Pres. Nixon s & Pres. Reagan s for. policy President Reagan s foreign policy 834 Results of the Cuban Missile Crisis 823 Tet Offensive US intervention in Latin America 824 US troop withdrawal from Vietnam US, Korea 817 Vietnam War, United States 829 Vietnam in

4 Core Concepts & Terms to study (May be in questions or in matching/terms section.) Chapter 25 Anarchist Bootleggers Bull Market Communism Company unions Deport Disarmament Equal Rights Amendment Expatriate Fad Flapper Harlem Renaissance Installment Buying Jazz Jazz Age Kellogg-Briand Pact League of W omen Voters Nativism Prohibition Quota system Recession Repeal Sabotage Stock Suburb Teapot Dome Scandal Chapter 26 Bank Holiday Bankrupt Black Tuesday Black Cabinet Bonus Army Bonus Civil Rights Civilian Conservation Corps Collective Bargaining Congress of Ind. Orgs. Deficit Spending Dust Bowl Fireside Chat Great Depression Hooverville Hundred Days Indian New Deal Migrant Worker Nat l Labor Relations Act National Recovery Admin. National Debt New Deal On-Margin Pension Polio Public Works Relief Program Sit-down Strike Social Security Act Soup Kitchen Tennessee Valley Authority Chapter 27 Double V Campaign Aggression Allies Appeasement Atlantic Charter Axis Bataan Death March Battle of Midway Battle of Britain Battle of the Bulge Blitzkrieg Bracero Program Compensation Concentration Camp D-day Fascism Good Neighbor Policy Holocaust Island Hopping Kamikaze Lend-Lease Act Munich Conference Navajo Code-Talkers Nazi-Soviet Pact Nazis Neutrality Acts Nuremberg Trials Operation Overlord Potsdam Declaration Rationing Rosie the Riveter Scapegoat Totalitarian State Tuskegee Airmen Victory Garden War Production Board Chapter th Parallel Alliance for Progress Bay of Pigs Invasion Berlin Wall Berlin Airlift Boat People Censure Cold War Containment Cuban Missile Crisis Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Detente Domino Theory Draft Escalate Exile Glasnost Guerrilla Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Khmer Rouge Marshall Plan Martial Law McCarthyism/Red Scare Nat l Aeronautics & Space Admin. (NASA) North Atlantic Treaty Org. Org. of American States Peace Corps Perjury SALT Agreement Satellite Nation Solidarity Star Wars Summit Meeting Superpower Tet Offensive

5 Truman Doctrine United Nations Vietcong Warsaw Pact Chapter 29 Affirmative Action Baby Boom Bakke v. Regents of CA Beatnik Bilingual Boycott Civil Disobedience Civil Rights Movement Counterculture Mvt. Inflation Integration Migrant Worker Productivity Segregation Silent Majority Sit-In Stagflation Standard of Living Suburb Moral Majority North Am. Free Trade Agreement OPEC Persian Gulf War PLO Reaganomics Recession Refugee Renewable Resource Sanctions Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty Surplus Terrorism Trade Deficit STUDY THE CORE CONCEPTS & TERMS... KNOW THE DEFINITIONS AND ABOUT THEM. AGAIN, THESE WILL BE WITHIN QUESTIONS AND/OR IN THE MATCHING SECTION ON THE EXAM. Chapter 30 American Indian Religious Freedom Act American Assoc. Of Retired Persons Americans w/ Disabilities Act Apartheid Balanced Budget Camp David Accords Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Contract with America Dayton Accord Deregulation Downsizing E-Commerce Earth Summit Environmental Protection Agency Environmentalist Global Warming Illegal Alien Immigration Reform & Control Act Internet Mainstreaming Mediator

6 In addition to your Practice Tests for Chapters 25-30, it would be an excellent idea to spend time usiing the self-test option on the book s website... TYPE In address bar. Underneath course content (on left) CLICK ON SOCIAL STUDIES. Click the TEXTBOOK COMPANION SITES link. You ll see 2 pull downs... Select OH in the STATE PULL DOWN. Select THE AMERICAN NATION in the PROGRAM PULL DOWN. You ll see the book cover... Click on the SURVEY link. Choose a chapter link (Choose Chapter any). Then choose the CHAPTER SELF-TEST link. Take the self-tests for each chapter. Know the goals & tools of American Foreign Policy & about them (i.e. examples of each; when they are used, etc.) Goals: Trade, World Peace, Human Rights & Democracy, National Security Tools: Trade measures, diplomacy, alliances, foreign aid, intelligence, defense. CONSIDER THIS PROMPT: The Cold War was partly the result of the expansion of the Soviet Union in Central & Eastern Europe as World War II ended. BE PREPARED TO: Describe one US concern about the Soviet Union s domination of Central & Eastern Europe after 1945 AND cite a relevant action taken by the US in response to the identified concern. BE ABLE TO LIST THE CAUSES OF WWI & WWII: WWI NATIONALISM IMPERIALISM MILITARISM ALLIANCES Assassination of Francis Ferdinand (Spark) WWII NATIONALISM IMPERIALISM MILITARISM ALLIANCES TREATY OF VERSAILLES GREAT DEPRESSION You need to be prepared for your exam. You will have scantron, short answer, and extended response. What you get done during the exam time is what I grade. You won t be getting extra time, so be sure to study!

5. Base your answer on the map below and on your knowledge of social studies.

5. Base your answer on the map below and on your knowledge of social studies. Name: 1. To help pay for World War II, the United States government relied heavily on the 1) money borrowed from foreign governments 2) sale of war bonds 3) sale of United States manufactured goods to