World War I Study Guide
Unit Goal: Identify what caused the United States to become involved in World War I and analyze the effects the war had on the United States.
Vocabulary
Militarism
Alliances
Casualty
Nationalism
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
U-boat
Lusitania
Zimmermann note
Francis (or Franz) Ferdinand
Doughboys
Trench warfare
Conscientious objector
Espionage Act
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Influenza
Red Scare
Conscription
Selective Service Act
Great Migration
Reparations
Creditor nation
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Identify the key causes of World War I.
Define key vocabulary from World War I and explain their significance.
Explain the four key factors that caused the US to enter WWI.
Explain how the government responded to anti-war demonstrators.
Debate whether critics of World War I were anti-American or not.
Explain, in general, what Doughboys experienced on the European fronts.
Explain what life was like for Americans on the homefront during WWI.
Identify three positive and three negative effects of WWI on the United States.
Explain how the international role of the United States changed after WWI.
Debate the effectiveness and merit of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points.
Identify the causes and effects of the Red Scare and anti-communist feelings in the U.S.
Identify the Spanish influenza and explain what caused it and what effect it had on the U.S.
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1920's Study Guide
Unit Goal: Analyze the causes for economic growth and social change in the decade after World War I.
Henry Ford
Mass production
Assembly line
Model T
Bull Market
Installment buying
Buying on margin
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Modernism
Fundamentalism
Scopes Trial
Flapper
“Lost Generation”
Harlem Renaissance
Charlie Chaplin
Charles Lindbergh
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marcus Garvey
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
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Explain how the 1920s differed from other eras of US History.
Explain the impact of Henry Ford, the assembly line, and the automobile on America.
Analyze the causes and effects of the bull market and the consumer revolution.
Explain what caused the economic boom in the U.S. during the 20's.
Compare the different effects of the economic boom on urban and rural America, both economically and socially.
Analyze how the policies of presidents Harding and Coolidge favored business growth.
Contrast the philosophies of modernism and fundamentalism, using examples to define each.
Trace the reasons that leisure time increased during the 1920's.
Analyze how the development of popular culture united Americans and created new activities and heroes.
Analyze the concept of modernism and its impact on writers and painters in the 1920's.
Identify key characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance and its major players.
Explain the movement for black empowerment and voice during the 1920's.
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Great Depression and New Deal Study Guide
Unit Goals: Explain how the Great Depression happened and how the Americans responded to it.
Explain how the New Deal responded to the ravages of the depression and changed the role of the federal government.
Vocabulary
Black Tuesday
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Hooverville
Dust Bowl
Okies
Volunteerism
Trickle-down economics
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
FDIC
CCC
NRA
Second New Deal
WPA
Social Security Act
Wagner Act
Court packing
Welfare state
The Wizard of Oz
Dorthea Lange
John Steinbeck
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Explain the factors that led up to the stock market crash of 1929.
Identify the various causes of the Great Depression.
Explain the human and geographical factors that created the Dust Bowl.
Identify the effects of the Great Depression, including: Collapse of banks and businesses, Widespread unemployment, Poverty and homelessness and “Hoovervilles”, Dust Bowl, Discrimination of African Americans, Migration of the Okies.
Discuss how Hoove’s initial conservative response to the depression failed.
Analyze the impact FDR had on the American people after becoming president.
Provide one example of a program enacted under each of the following components of the New Deal: Relief, Recovery, Reform.
Explain why both spectrum's of politics disagreed with the New Deal.
Describe how the New Deal affected different groups in American society.
Discuss the impact of FDR on the American presidency.
Debate whether the New Deal was overall a success or a failure in stopping the depression.
Trace the growth of radio and the movies during the Great Depression and how they reflected the spirit of the times.
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Unit Goal: Identify what caused the United States to become involved in World War I and analyze the effects the war had on the United States.
Vocabulary
Militarism
Alliances
Casualty
Nationalism
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
U-boat
Lusitania
Zimmermann note
Francis (or Franz) Ferdinand
Doughboys
Trench warfare
Conscientious objector
Espionage Act
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Influenza
Red Scare
Conscription
Selective Service Act
Great Migration
Reparations
Creditor nation
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Identify the key causes of World War I.
Define key vocabulary from World War I and explain their significance.
Explain the four key factors that caused the US to enter WWI.
Explain how the government responded to anti-war demonstrators.
Debate whether critics of World War I were anti-American or not.
Explain, in general, what Doughboys experienced on the European fronts.
Explain what life was like for Americans on the homefront during WWI.
Identify three positive and three negative effects of WWI on the United States.
Explain how the international role of the United States changed after WWI.
Debate the effectiveness and merit of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points.
Identify the causes and effects of the Red Scare and anti-communist feelings in the U.S.
Identify the Spanish influenza and explain what caused it and what effect it had on the U.S.
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1920's Study Guide
Unit Goal: Analyze the causes for economic growth and social change in the decade after World War I.
Henry Ford
Mass production
Assembly line
Model T
Bull Market
Installment buying
Buying on margin
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Modernism
Fundamentalism
Scopes Trial
Flapper
“Lost Generation”
Harlem Renaissance
Charlie Chaplin
Charles Lindbergh
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marcus Garvey
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
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Explain how the 1920s differed from other eras of US History.
Explain the impact of Henry Ford, the assembly line, and the automobile on America.
Analyze the causes and effects of the bull market and the consumer revolution.
Explain what caused the economic boom in the U.S. during the 20's.
Compare the different effects of the economic boom on urban and rural America, both economically and socially.
Analyze how the policies of presidents Harding and Coolidge favored business growth.
Contrast the philosophies of modernism and fundamentalism, using examples to define each.
Trace the reasons that leisure time increased during the 1920's.
Analyze how the development of popular culture united Americans and created new activities and heroes.
Analyze the concept of modernism and its impact on writers and painters in the 1920's.
Identify key characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance and its major players.
Explain the movement for black empowerment and voice during the 1920's.
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Great Depression and New Deal Study Guide
Unit Goals: Explain how the Great Depression happened and how the Americans responded to it.
Explain how the New Deal responded to the ravages of the depression and changed the role of the federal government.
Vocabulary
Black Tuesday
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Hooverville
Dust Bowl
Okies
Volunteerism
Trickle-down economics
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
FDIC
CCC
NRA
Second New Deal
WPA
Social Security Act
Wagner Act
Court packing
Welfare state
The Wizard of Oz
Dorthea Lange
John Steinbeck
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Explain the factors that led up to the stock market crash of 1929.
Identify the various causes of the Great Depression.
Explain the human and geographical factors that created the Dust Bowl.
Identify the effects of the Great Depression, including: Collapse of banks and businesses, Widespread unemployment, Poverty and homelessness and “Hoovervilles”, Dust Bowl, Discrimination of African Americans, Migration of the Okies.
Discuss how Hoove’s initial conservative response to the depression failed.
Analyze the impact FDR had on the American people after becoming president.
Provide one example of a program enacted under each of the following components of the New Deal: Relief, Recovery, Reform.
Explain why both spectrum's of politics disagreed with the New Deal.
Describe how the New Deal affected different groups in American society.
Discuss the impact of FDR on the American presidency.
Debate whether the New Deal was overall a success or a failure in stopping the depression.
Trace the growth of radio and the movies during the Great Depression and how they reflected the spirit of the times.
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