Final Exam Study Guide Review

This review will cover MOST of the information on the final exam. Anything

listed in the packet is likely to appear on the exam INCLUDING all questions.

PART ONE

• WW1• Roaring 20’s• Great Depression

WORLD WAR ONE

• 3 Central Powers: Germany, Austria Hungary, Italy

World War One

• 3 Main Allies:Great Britain, France, Russia (US JOINS LATE)

WORLD WAR ONE

• Archduke Ferdinand:He and his family assassinated in Austria Hungary by Bosnian’s which lead to the start of WW1

WORLD WAR ONE

• African Americans from the South begin moving North for more opportunities!!–Work–Escape poverty–Safety

WORLD WAR ONE

• Woodrow Wilson:-President during the war-Created 14 points: Stopped Germany from repeating behaviors that lead to WW1 and made them take blame for it.

WORLD WAR ONE

• Zimmerman Telegram: A letter to Mexican leaders from Germany, saying if they joined the war with them they would take Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona from the US and give it to them.

• Letter discovered in transit by Britain so they gave us the letter!

WORLD WAR ONE

QUESTION: What are the contributing factors to what started World War One? (5)

• Nationalism• Alliances• Social Darwinism• Imperialism• Arms Race: Who can make the best weapons

ROARING 20’s/Great Depression

• The Lost Generation: The young people who participated in WW1 as teens/early 20 years olds whose values became very different after the war. They started seeing that America was intolerant and materialistic.

ROARING 20’s/GREAT DEPRESSION

• Speakeasies:Night clubs that illegally sold alcohol, usually run by the Mafia

ROARING 20’s/ GREAT DEPRESSION

• Bootleggers: People who Illegally sell, make, or transport alcohol during the prohibition.

ROARING 20’s/GD

• Evolution: Scientific theory of how life forms developed over hundreds of years. SCOPES TRIAL

ROARING 20’s/GD

• Stock Market Crash: On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day.

• Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.

ROARING 20’s/GD

• Herbert Hoover: President during the beginning of the Great Depression who did very little to help

Refused to give government help (money)

Hoovervilles

• Due to loss of homes, makeshift houses were created by millions out of cardboard, sometimes trash to live in.

Economic Depression

• When the country goes into a financial slump –There is not enough money in a

countries economy and the majority of the people suffer

Credit

• Arrangement for delayed payment of a purchase

Public Works Projects

• Government funded (paid for) construction projects to create jobs for the unemployed.

Franklin D Roosevelt

• President duyring GD and WW2• 2 New Deals • He reassured Americans that we

were going to be all right. People believed him • President 4X

The New Deal

• 1933-1935• Programs created for recovery, releif,

and reform –100 Days: Completely revamped the

gov to start helping immediately!

Question: How was FDR better then Hoover

• Fought the depression• Used government money to help the people• Fireside chats to keep Americans informed • 2 New Deals • Set up programs to prevent this from

happening again

CNN Student News

• http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

PART TWO

• WW2• Civil Rights Movement• Random

WW2: Adolf Hitler

• German dictator/leader of the Nazi’s • Wanted world domination• Looked to terminate the entire Jewish race

and many more...

WW2: Benito Mussolini

• Italian leader• Created Fascism which is like nationalism and

racism put together• Nickname: Il Duce

WW2: Josef Stalin

• Communist dictator of the Soviet Union• Very untrusting and would murder anyone

who he suspected would turn against him • Worked with the US during WW2 but went

against us in the cold war.

WW2: Dwight D. Eisenhower

• United States superstar general• Named the Supreme Allied Commander • Responsible for D-Day • Later became President

WW2: Hideki Tojo

• Prime Minister of Japan• Attacked US: Pearl Harbor

WW2: Pearl Harbor

• Japan’s attack on the US• US Naval Base In Hawaii • Got the US to enter WW2

WW2: DDAY

• Allies invade Normandy to save France from German Occupation

• June 6th 1944• Lead by Dwight D Eisenhower

WW2: 4 Main Axis Powers

• Germany• Italy• Japan• Austria Hungary

WW2: 4 Allied Powers

• US• Great Britain• Soviet Union• France

WW2: Holocaust

• Nazi’s crime of killing more then 12 million people

• Jewish People were targeted the most • Concentration camps

Question: Describe the Holocaust

Question: Why did the US go after Germany before Japan?

Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King Jr.

• Most famous and influential civil rights leader• PEACEFUL PROTEST– Sit ins– Speeches– Marches

• Assassinated 1968

John F Kennedy

• President during the 1960’s• Worked towards equality • NASA• Assassinated in Texas during a parade

Malcolm X

• African American Activist• Believed in self defense if needed• Against integration• Assassinated in 1965

Rosa Parks

• African American civil rights activist • Started the Bus Boycotts!• Refused to give up her seat to a white man

Emmett Till

• 15 year old boy attacked and killed for flirting with white women

• Civil Rights Movement used his story to spread the word about unjust world they lived in

March On Washington

• Huge Civil Rights demonstration through Washington DC

• 1963, lead by MLK –I have a dream speech

Freedom Summer

• Voter registration drive for African American’s in the South

• Lead by college students to start with• 1964

Little Rock Nine

• 9 students enrolled in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

• Governor sent in National Guard to prevent them from entering school

• President had to send troops in to make sure they could go to school!

Lyndon B Johnson

• Took over as President after Kennedy was assassinated

• Continued Civil Rights efforts

Selma, Alabama

• MLK’s efforts to march from Selma to the Capital to take a stand about raise awareness about voting rights.

• Attacked by protestors• Took three days to get there• It worked! Voting Rights Act passed later that

year

Sit In

• Protest where people sit in a planned location and refuse to move for a planned amount of time

• Form of peaceful protest

Bus Boycott

• To end segregation on busses, all African Americans and some white people refused to ride the buses in many cities across America

• Lead buses to be unable to run!

Connect Civil Rights Movement to events in your own life or in current events

Difference and Similarities between MLK and MALCOLM X

GREAT JOB!!!

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