Final Study Guide Flashcards
The 3 countries of the Triple Entente
Great Britain, France, and Russia
Name the 3 countries of the Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire
What were the details of the Schlieffen Plan in WWI was the German military strategy to
attack france in the east and russia in the west
Although the Allies won the War, what country did not enjoy the benefits because it surrendered to Germany almost a year before Germany was defeated?
russia
The spark that started the War occurred when the future leader of what region was assassinated?
Spain
On which front did the Germans battle the French?
western front
Know the estimated human costs on the WWI battlefields according to your book:
8.5 million dead soldiers, 21 million wounded
What treaty between the Allied powers and Germany was signed exactly 5 years after the assassination of Francis Ferdinand?
treaty of versailles
What was the final straw that brought the U.S. into WWI against Germany? What was the name of the message from Germany to Mexico?
the Zimmerman note
The Boom refers to the decade of the
20s
The bust refers to the decade of the
30s
The War that followed the Bust is
WWII
80 percent of Americans in 1929 had no ______ at all.
savings
A major cause of the Great Depression was the ___ (name the institution) artificially manipulating interest rates.
stock market
The AAA (a New Deal Agency) had ___________ pigs slaughtered and burned at a time when many Americans were hungry and out of work.
6.4 million
What comes the closest to the highest rate of unemployment during the Great Depression?
25% (1 out of 4)
Know the following states that were directly affected by the “Dust Bowl” that hit the Great Plains.
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
What were “Hoovervilles”?
A “Hooverville” was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless
What was the Bonus Army?
The Bonus Army was a group of 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
During the mid-to-late 1920s (even before the Great Depression Started), how were farmers affected by the low prices of wheat?
Farmers were affected by the low prices of wheat because they had been supplying european countries so once europe got back on its feet the farmers are making to many crops so they had excess making low prices and bankruptcy for farmers
What is “Buying on margin”?
the practice of buying an asset where the buyer pays only a percentage of the asset’s value and borrows the rest from the bank or a broker
What is Social Security”?
any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income.
Name the 2 the presidents during the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is a Flapper?
a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
“The chief business of the American people is __________ .”
business
Who said it? ________________________ (hint: a president) (“The chief business of the American people is ________.”
Calvin Coolidge
For the following 5 questions, write in the letter that matches the section:
A) Lucky Lindy, B) Great Depression Parts 1 and 2, C) Red Scare, D)All That Jazz, E) Monkey Trial
1) This section featured information about the New Deal
2)This section focused on Communism and its spread to the USA
3)This section was about the first Transatlantic flight
4)This section described and incident where science came into conflict with religious belief
5)This section featured information about Louis Armstrong
This section featured information about the New Deal (b)
This section focused on Communism and its spread to the USA (c)
This section was about the first Transatlantic flight (a)
This section described and incident where science came into conflict with religious belief (e)
This section featured information about Louis Armstrong(d)
Know that these countries were ruled by fascist dictators by the end of the 1930s.
Spain
Italy
Germany
The earliest incident leading up to WWII in Asia was Japan invading__________ in 1931. It is a region of China.
Manchuria
These two world leaders signed a nonaggression pact one week before the invasion of Poland that started WWII. (Also, they secretly divided Poland among themselves)
Hitler, Stalin
Know the 3 following factors that kept countries from challenging the expanding Axis empires
A global depression
Memories of WWI
The belief in isolationism
What happened at the Munich Conference of 1938? Did Hitler keep his promise?
The settlement gave Germany the Sudetenland starting 10 October, and de facto control over the rest of Czechoslovakia; no
Know the 3 major Axis Powers in WWII
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Know why the Maginot Line failed and what it was.
the Germans attacked France in the spring of 1940 using blitzkrieg
What battle is considered the major turning point in the war against Japan in the Pacific?
Battle of Midway
D-Day refers to who invades whom?
Allies invading Nazi- occupied france
What was the German war strategy used in WWII to overwhelm the enemy?
Blitzkrieg