UNITED STATES HISTORY II – 11TH GRADE
MIDTERM EXAMINATION STUDY GUIDE
JANUARY 2012
EXAM FORMAT: 100 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS; 10 SHORT-ANSWER ESSAY QUESTIONS
CH. 18
1. Imperialism; 3 factors that led to US imperialism
2. Jose Marti
3. yellow journalism
4. Rough Riders
5. Spanish-American War: who fought? where?
6. Treaty of Paris: terms? How did the US begin to create an empire? (what territories were gained?)
7. Foraker Act
8. Emilio Aguinaldo
9. Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency: when did he gain power?
10. Open Door Policy: who, what, about which country?
11. Panama Canal construction: in which country?
12. Roosevelt Corollary: idea behind it? was an addition to what previous document? 2 examples of?
13. dollar diplomacy: idea, which president?
14. missionary diplomacy: idea, which president?
15. America’s 3 foreign policy goals in early 1900s
CH. 19
16. Triple Entente
17. Triple Alliance
18. event that sparked WWI?
19. 4 causes of WWI
20. No man’s land
21. US involvement in WWI – reasons for it? which alliance does US side with?
22. 1916 election – winner, campaign promise
23. 3 “actual overt acts” that prompted US involvement in WWI
24. German U-boats
25. Convoy system
26. American Expeditionary Forces(AEF): what, nickname, leader
27. Conscientious objector
28. War Industries Board (WIB)
29. Espionage and Sedition Acts
30. Great Migration: what, 3 factors that led to it
31. Poland – what country had lad taken from it to create this new nation?
32. NEW countries created after WWI
33. Zimmermann notes
34. Fourteen Points; League of Nations – did the US join?
35. Treaty of Versailles: war-guilt clause – who was blamed? 3 failures of treaty?
36. 4 results of WWI for the US; 1 major result for Europe
CH. 20
37. Red Scare
38. Palmer Raids
39. Sacco and Vanzetti case
40. 1920 election – winner, campaign promise
41. isolationism
42. communism
43. Teapot Dome scandal: what was it? which president did it affect?
44. Fordney-McCumber tariff
CH. 21
45. “roaring twenties”
46. Prohibition: what is it? which amendments?
47. Al Capone: who was he? where did he operate?
48. Women’s suffrage: what is it? which amendment?
49. Fundamentalism
50. Scopes “monkey” trial: what was it about? How does it represent changing cultural trends in the US?
51. Flappers
52. Gertrude Ederle
53. Charles Lindbergh
54. 1st animated movie w/ sound
55. Harlem Renaissance
56. Marcus Garvey/UNIA
57. WEB DuBois/NAACP
58. Jazz music – birthplace?
59. Bessie Smith
CH. 22
60. 3 problems that hurt 1920s prosperity
61. McNary-Haugen Bill – what, why Coolidge vetoed?
62. 1928 presidential election – winner
63. Dow Jones Industrial Average: what does it measure?
64. bull market, bear market
65. Black Tuesday: date, what happened
66. 4 causes of the Great Depression
67. Dust Bowl
68. “rugged individualism:” who, what
69. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
70. Bonus March – what, why, Hoover’s reaction, impact
71. Patman Bill
CH. 23
72. 1932 presidential election – winner
73. 3 goals of the New Deal; what was the impact of this plan?
74. FDR’s 1st action - bank holiday
75. New Deal agencies: AAA, CCC, SEC, NYA, SSA
76. New Deal critics – Long, Coughlin
77. Court-packing bill: what, why
78. Frances Perkins
79. Marian Anderson
80. New Deal coalition
81. “War of the Worlds”
82. Federal Writers’ Project – Wright, Steinbeck, Slave Narratives
83. Federal Art Project – Wood’s American Gothic
84. impact of the New Deal
CH. 24
85. European dictators (5): who? where did the gain power? What circumstances allowed them to rise to power?
86. Causes of WWII
87. US involvement in WWII – which alliance does US side with?
88. Events/issues that prompted the US to get involved in war
89. totalitarianism
90. Mein Kampf – goals Hitler listed
91. Spanish Civil War – Franco’s role? what countries aided him?
92. FDR – against isolationism; what did he want to do instead? why?
93. Neutrality Acts
94. Which country does Hitler take over first during WWII?
95. Munich Agreement – what, what 3 countries signed it?
96. Blitzkrieg
97. Vichy, France
98. Kristallnacht
99. Final Solution
100. Tripartite Act: which nations signed it?
101. Lend-lease policy
102. wolf packs/u-boats
103. Pearl Harbor: date? what events led up to it?
104. Atlantic Charter – who, what, key points
105. Holocaust – phases, goals, examples
106. Nazi ideology – beliefs about race