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