Mr. Raudensky’s Final Exam Study Guide

Your final examination will consist of 150 objective questions dealing with all information from the 1920’s up through the Origins of the Cold War. In addition to your vocabulary sheets, textbooks, note sheets, and back work from the second semester, you may also find this study guide to be helpful in your preparation for the final examination.

Assume that you are engaged in a war against Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Your initiative, hard work, and creativity will determine who wins. This study guide is meant to give you a good overview of the material on the final exam!

The 1920’s

Key People:Vocabulary:Mini Topics:

Calvin CoolidgeBootleggersThe Republican Years

Mitchell PalmerProhibitionProhibition

Warren HardingFlappersThe Red Scare

Herbert HooverSpeakeasiesThe Scopes Monkey Trial

Henry Ford18th Amendment

John Scopes21st Amendment

Clarence Darrowxenophobia

Gertrude Ederle

Babe Ruth

Charles Lindbergh

Louis Armstrong

Ty Cobb

Lou Gehrig

Amelia Earhart

Al Capone

J. Edgar Hoover

Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin

Bill Tilden

George Gershwin

The Great Depression

Key People:Vocabulary:Mini Topics:

Herbert HooverBull MarketStock Market Crash

Franklin D. RooseveltBear MarketCauses of the Depression

Public WorksThe New Deal

Business CycleThe Dust Bowl

OkiesSupply and Demand

Capitalism

Communism

World War II

Key People:Vocabulary:Mini Topics:

Benito MussoliniBlitzkriegOrigins of the War

Joseph StalinIsland HoppingAllied Powers

Adolf HitlerOperation OverlordAxis Powers

Hideki TojoKamikazePacific Theater

Eleanor RooseveltManhattan ProjectEuropean Theater

Francisco FrancoTrinity TestWWII Dates

Erwin RommelFascismThe Holocaust

Winston ChurchillMilitarismLife of the Homefront

Fred KorematsuBig ThreeMap of WWII Europe

Bernard Montgomery

George S. Patton

Douglas MacArthur

Chester Nimitz

Joseph Goebbels

The Cold War (1950’s)

Key People:Vocabulary:Mini Topics:

Harry TrumanCommunismContainment Theory

Francis Gary PowersEspionageKorean War

Nikita KhrushchevSputnikSpace Race

Julius RosenbergMarshall Plan The Long Peace

John Lewis GaddisTruman DoctrineThe Red Scare

Kim Jong UnYalta ConferenceBi-polar Power

John Foster DullesPotsdam Conference

Joseph McCarthyNATO

Kim Il Song

George Marshall