Deeper Thinking/Larger Questions

US History 2nd Semester Review Sheet

Important Terms Important Events/Works Important People Reconstruction Spanish-American War Teddy Roosevelt Jim Crow South Wounded Knee William Howard Taft Laissiez-faire Roosevelt Corollary Woodrow Wilson Social Darwinism 19th Amendment Franz Ferdinand Captains of Industry June 28, 1914 Herbert Hoover Robber Barons Schlieffen Plan FDR Labor unions and strikes 11:00, November 11, 1918 Benito Mussolini Tammany Hall Red Scare Adolf Hitler Imperialism Black Tuesday, 1929 Karl Marx Manifest Destiny Harlem Renaissance Vladimir Lenin Muckrakers Roaring 20s Joseph Stalin MAIN causes of WWI Great Depression Harry Truman Wartime economy New Deal Mikhail Gorbachev U-boats US Neutrality Acts MLK Trench warfare Versailles Treaty Malcolm X Lost Generation Japanese Internment Richard Nixon Blitzkrieg Kristallnacht Ronald Reagan Atomic Age Mein Kampf Socialism Pearl Harbor Communism Battle of Midway Proletariat Battle of Stalingrad Beurgeoise D-Day Black Panther Party Hiroshima and Nagasaki Glasnost The Cold War Perestroika Cuban Missile Crisis Berlin Wall The Space Race Containment Korean War Mutual Assured Destruction Vietnam War Watergate Moral Majority

Deeper Thinking/Larger Questions Unit 5 - Becoming a World Power How was the African-American and Native American experience different from that of white Americans? How were leaders of Industry seen as both heroes and villains in the US? What was the Gilded Age, why was it called that, and how did it affect America? Why did the US enter the Spanish American War? How did this war and Imperialism change America? How did Americans respond to that change? How should Teddy Roosevelt be remembered: as a great statesman or a bully? Unit 6 - Progressivism and World War I What issues did Progressives seek to fix? How were/weren’t they successful? Why do many in the US disagree on immigrant issues? Explain the sides of this debate How did each of the MAIN causes of WWI lead to war? How did the US get pulled into WWI? Compare and contrast the 14 points and the Versailles treaty. How did they each hope to make a better world? Why would the 14 points have been better? Why did the Versailles treaty get implemented?

Unit 7 - Years between the Wars How did cultures of different groups clash in the US in the Roaring 20s? (Black and White, old and young, religious and nonreligious) How did the Harlem Renaissance benefit Blacks in the US? How did it fall short? Why did the stock market crash cause such a huge depression in the US? What was the New Deal? How did Roosevelt hope to end the Depression? What did this change about government in the US?

Unit 8 - World War II Why did Fascism rise in Europe during the 1920s and 30s? How did Hitler gain power in Germany (both through propaganda and fear)? What were some of the major events of WWII, and why were they important to the war? What were the causes and effects of Japanese internment in the US?

Unit 9 - America the Superpower What were the major differences between Communism and Democratic-Capitalism? What was the Cold War all about, and why was it a “cold” war? What strategies did the US use to fight the Cold War? What were some of the major events of the Cold War, and why were they important? What strategies did people use during the Civil Rights movement, and how they successful? Compare Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party What was the counterculture in America? What were they counter to, and why? How did Ronald Reagan change America?

Questions across the semester How did the Federal government get stronger throughout history (think of specific events that led to specific ways) America began as a fairly isolated country, but by the mid-20th century, was a world superpower. What brought America to be more involved in the world, and why? America began as a fairly small, weak country, but by the mid-20th century, was a world superpower. What events/people/technology led America to greater power? America began as a very racist and unequal country. Although still not perfect, it has grown to be a much more equal and free society for all. How did this happen? Has America changed for the better, or for the worse?