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History Review Guide

Unit 7 Test (Chapters 20-24)
SSUSH 16 The student will identify key developments in the aftermath of WWI.
Topics/Questions for Review:
1. Why did the United States decide on the policy of Isolationism after World War I?
2. What was the Red Scare?
3. What impact did the Red Scare have on immigration restriction (Emergency Quota Act and National
Origins Act)?
4. Describe the Sacco-Vanzetti Case. How does it connect to the Red Scare?
5. Who invented the Assembly Line? How did it impact the United States?
6. Describe mass production.
7. What is a Flapper?
8. Describe the impact the radio had on the United States.
9. Explain reasons for the Great Migration.
10. What type of music was popular during the 1920s?
11. What was Louis Armstrong famous for?
12. Describe the Harlem Renaissance,
13. Why was Langston Hughes popular?
14. What was Tin Pan Alley?
15. Why was Irving Berlin popular?
16. What was Prohibition? Which amendment established Prohibition?
17. What did bootleggers do?
18. What was the first movie with sound?
19. List the presidents of the 1920s in correct order.
20. Who was Marcus Garvey and for what was he an advocate?
SSUSH 17 The student will analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.
Topics/Questions for Review:
21. Describe the three main reasons for the Great Depression.
22. What year did the Stock Market Crash?
23. What is buying on margin?
24. What name was given to the shanty towns created during the Great Depression?
25. What was the Dust Bowl? Explain how it happened.
26. Where did the farmers go when they left the Midwest?
27. What was the unemployment rate during the Depression?
28. Describe Hoovers efforts to handle the Great Depression.
29. Who became President in 1932?
SSUSH 18 The student will describe Franklin Roosevelts New Deal as a response to the depression and
compare the ways governmental programs aided those in need.
Topics/Questions for Review:
30. What is the New Deal? (three Rs)
31. Describe the FDIC.
32. What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
33. What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
34. What was the purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
35. Why was Eleanor Roosevelt so important to FDRs New Deal?
36. What is the Court Packing Bill?
37. Which groups benefitted from the Social Security Act?

38. What is the Wagner Act?

39. Who was Huey Long? Describe his plan for ending the depression.
SSUSH 19 The student will analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.
Topics/Questions for Review:
40. Who was A. Phillip Randolph? What did he propose?
41. Describe the Neutrality Acts. What was their purpose?
42. Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor? What month, day & year did the attack take place? When did the
U.S. declare war?

43. What was the Lend-Lease Program?

44. Why was the Battle of Midway important?
45. What was Island Hopping?
46. Why was D-Day invasion important?
47. What happened to the city of Berlin after the Nazis surrendered?
48. What is Rationing? Why did we do this during WWII?
49. What role did women play in WWII?
50. Describe the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.
51. What was the Manhattan Project?
52. What world organization was established aboard the Atlantic Charter?
53. What countries made up the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers?
54. Who were the two Generals of the European front and what were they know for?
55. Who became president during WWII and decided to drop the atomic bomb?
56. When was V-E and when was V-J day?
57. Why was the United Nations created? Describe the General Assembly and the Security Council?
58. What is appeasement and how was it a cause of WWII?

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