Post Assessment Review Flashcards
Why are the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki important?
They are the only two cities that another country (U.S.) has attacked with nuclear bombs.
Provide me with 4 inventions that were created in the LATE 19th CENTURY
Lightbulb, gramophone, elevator, lightbulb, cash register, hotdogs….
Who are the 3 main dictators of WWII?
Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini
This group led to the oppression of African Americans, Catholics, and Immigrants
Ku Klux Klan
What factors helped lead to the Great Depression? I need five things!
-Buying on Margin (Credit), stock-speculation, bad banking investments -Overproduction of crops -Bank-Runs -Hawley-Smoot Tariff -Stock Market Crash
Which document declared the colonists free from Great Britain?
Declaration of Independence
Explain what the De Lome Letter, and the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine are and why they are important.
-De Lome Letter= a note written by Señor Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, the Spanish Ambassador to the United States, to Don José Canelejas, the Foreign Minister of Spain, reveals de Lôme’s opinion about the Spanish involvement in Cuba and US President McKinley’s diplomacy. -U.S.S. Maine was a ship that was sunk in the Havana, Cuba harbor. Americans believed that the Spanish attacked the ship. -Both of these incidents helped lead the United States into the Spanish-American War.
What tactics did southern whites use to stop African American political participation in the South?
Jim Crow Laws, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests
Which group uses strikes to try and gain things they want?
Labor Unions
What is the “War Guilt Clause” within the Treaty of Versailles? and why is it important?
-“War Guilt Clause” (Politics - Treaty of Versailles) Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, known as the War Guilt Clause, was a statement that Germany was responsible for beginning World War I. -Germany was blamed for starting WWI even know they did not start it. -Many Germans were extremely upset and blamed the Allies for destroying the economy of Germany -Led to the rise of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler, who personally blamed the “War Guilt Clause” for embarrassing Germany and destroying their economy.
What is imperialism?
A policy of practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world.
What type of power did the world see the United States having after the Spanish-American War and World War I?
-Power to produce -Industrial Powe
What was the Harlem-Renaissance?
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.
How did immigration transform American life? One positive and One negative example.
Positive- Immigrants brought in new cultures, religions, ideas, food, etc.. into the country Negative- rise of Nativism and violence in cities, overcrowding, diseases, etc..
List and explain 5 events that increased fears during the SECOND RED SCARE
-Korean War, Soviet testing a nuclear bomb, Space Race, Cuban Missile Crisis, Joseph McCarthy, China falling to communism, Eastern Europe falling to communism
What was FDR’s New Deal program? What did it attempt to accomplish?
-FDR’s New Deal program was a series of domestic reforms in the United States aimed at creating jobs and stimulating the economy. -It attempted to create a huge amount of programs to help with unemployment and end the Great Depress
What is another name for the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution?
The Bill of Rights
What is Prohibition?
An era in the United States where alcohol was banned
Explain what the Progressive Era was.
A period of social activism and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s.
What is the belief that native born Americans are better than immigrants called?
Nativism
