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U.S. History Study Guide: 1898-1945

This study guide outlines key topics for Exam II, covering U.S. history from imperialism through World War II. It includes sections on the Spanish American War, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and FDR's New Deal, highlighting significant events, policies, and social changes. Additionally, it addresses the impact of World War II on various demographics and the economy.

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U.S. History Study Guide: 1898-1945

This study guide outlines key topics for Exam II, covering U.S. history from imperialism through World War II. It includes sections on the Spanish American War, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and FDR's New Deal, highlighting significant events, policies, and social changes. Additionally, it addresses the impact of World War II on various demographics and the economy.

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EXAM II Study Guide

I. Empire

1. Spanish American War & Imperialism


2. American isolationism
3. Causes of war
4. Results
5. Open Door Policy; Roosevelt Corollary; Panama Canal

II. WW I

1. World War I
2. American neutrality
3. Reasons for entry into war
4. Effects of new technologies
5. America's new international role
6. Versailles Treaty
7. Wilson's influence, influence of Progressivism
8. League of Nations
9. Fight over Senate ratification

III. Post-War U.S. — 1919

1. 1919
2. Return to normalcy
3. Red Scare

IV. the Roaring 20s

1. Republican prosperity
2. Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
3. Laissez-faire
4. “The Twenties:" How and why did they “Roar?”
5. Material prosperity: consumer goods
6. Technology = social and cultural change
7. Traditionalism vs. Modernism
8. Modernism
1. “The New Woman”
 Flappers
 Companionate marriage
 Professional women
2. Harlem Renaissance
 “ The New Negro”
 The Jazz Age
 Urban culture
3. Traditionalism

1. Rise of Christian Fundamentalism:


2. Scopes Monkey Trial, the Butler Act
3. 2nd KKK
4. Prohibition

V. The Great Crash

1. Causes of the Great Crash and Depression


2. Over-production
3. Under-consumption
4. Poor income distribution
5. Mistakes by Congress, the Federal Reserve Board

VI. The Great Depression

1. Nature; Severity
2. Bonus Army
3. Hoover's failed solutions
4. Trickle Down Theory
5. RFC

VII. FDR; New Deal

1. FDR, election of 1932


2. The New Deal (Relief, Recovery, Reform
3. The 100 days
4. Relief (Pump-priming)
1. CCC
2. FERA
3. CWA
4. WPA
5. TVA
5. Recovery
1. NIRA
2. AAA
3. Wagner Act
6. Reform
1. SEC
2. Social Security
3. Assessing the New Deal
4. Critics
5. Results
6. Legacy

7. World War II

1. How did the US get involved in the war?


2. How did the war affect the economy, politics and reform/protest movements?
3. What was Lend-Lease?
4. How did the war affect women, African Americans, Japanese Americans and other
minority groups?
5. What were the arguments for and against using the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki?
6. How was the US economy able to recover more quickly from WWII than from WI?

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