Aim: How can I best prepare for the final exam on June 9th?

• Do now:

• Take out all review material (notebook, packet, review book, review sheet).

• How will you begin to study for the final?

Appeasement

• To please

• In an attempt to avoid getting involved in war, Hitler was appeased.

• He was allowed to take more land

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cold War Era

• JFK helped Cuban exiles to try to overthrow communist Castro.

• Failed

Big Stick Policy

• Teddy Roosevelt

• U.S. as policeman of the world

• dealing with Latin America using force

Cold War

• Tensions between U.S. and Soviets after WWII

• we adopted containment policy to stop the spread of communism

Cuban Missile Crisis

• JFK - Cold War era

• Soviet missiles in Cuba

• U.S. blockaded Cuba

• Soviets removed missiles

• Success

Domino Theory

• Cold War era

• belief that if one nation falls to communism, its neighbors will follow

Dust Bowl

• Great Depression

• drought caused topsoil to blow away

• farmers had to abandon land and move

• Grapes of Wrath

18th Amendment

• Temperance movement - 1920s

• banning of alcohol

• unsuccessful

Flapper

• 1920’s

• women gain more independence and rights

• dresses shorter, short hair, jazz

• rebellious against traditions

Great Depression

• 1929 to beginning of WWII

• high unemployment, banks fail, dust bowl

• due to buying stocks on margin, low wages, too much production and not enough consumption

Guerilla warfare

• Warfare where it is difficult to see your enemy.

• Vietnam War

Holocaust

• Hitler’s annihilation of Jews and other groups in Europe before and during WWII

Hoovervilles

• Depression era

• term describing shantytowns

• named after Pres. Hoover

imperialism

• Take over and control another nation

• Causes - desire for more land, power, bases, spread Christianity

• Need for resources due to expanding economy

Industrial Revolution

• Late 1800s

• use of machines; assembly line

• goods made faster, cheaper

• factories had bad conditions

inflation

• Economic condition

• rising prices

Korean War

• Cold War era 1950s

• Communist North Korea invades South

• U.N. involved

• never a declared war

• ended in same lines dividing N and S

Laissez-faire

• “hands off”

• government does NOT regulate economy or businesses

• this allows for monopolies to exist; no controls

League of Nations

• Pres. Wilson’s plan (14 Points)

• plan for nations to discuss conflict and avoid war

• (Treaty of Versailles never ratified by U.S)

Marshall Plan

• $13 billion aid package to help rebuild Europe after WWII

• enable them to resist communism

Joseph McCarthy

• Hunted for subversives

• believed Communist spies were working in the U.S. government

• HUAC investigations

Neutrality Acts

• Before we officially entered WWII we were neutral

• aided Allies by selling weapons, loans etc.

New Deal

• FDR - Great Depression programs

• designed to help bring relief, recovery and reform

• job programs, Social Security, FDIC etc.

• increased role of govt

Quota system

• Nativists wanted limits placed on immigration.

• Restrictions at various times in our history

Roaring Twenties

• Economic boom period

• buying stocks on margin

• rebellion against traditions

• Red Scare and Immigration Quotas

Sacco and Vanzetti

• 1920’s period of RED SCARE

• these (anarchists) Italian immigrants were executed for a crime which they MAY not have committed.

• Shows fear of unpopular ideas and immigrants

Scopes Trial

• 1920’s rise of religious fundamentalism

• law in Tennessee forbade teaching of evolution

• John Scopes was tried for breaking law

Social Darwinism

• “survival of the fittest” theory applied to humans and economic systems

• encourages no governmental interference

Stock market crash

• Oct 29, 1929

• stocks which were rising fell dramatically as people panicked and sold stocks quickly.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

• Workers died in fire because of lack of safety regulations

• Led to public outcry and more government safety laws (fire escapes, no locked doors)

Truman Doctrine

• Aid to Greece and Turkey to help them resist communist threat

• Cold War era

United Nations

• After WWII

• set up to bring nations together to avoid future conflicts.

Versailles Treaty

• After WWI

• considered a harsh treatment of Germany which had to pay huge reparations and admit responsibility for war.

• U.S. did not ratify due to fear that the League of Nations would get us involved in future “entanglements” / wars.

Vietnam War

• North Vietnam wanted to spread communism to South Vietnam

• Cold War / containment caused us to get involved

• much opposition in U.S.

Watergate

• President Nixon scandal

• break-in by Republicans of Democratic National Committee

• cover up led to eventual arrest of some govt. officials.

World War II

• Began in Europe in 1939

• U.S. involved in 1941 - Pearl Harbor

• millions died

• led to continued conflicts in Cold War