CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I (Page #61)

What were the TWO most important factors influencing U.S. involvement in World War I?  Defend your answer.

 

 

THE HOME FRONT (Page #63)

In your own words, explain the Espionage and the Sedition Acts.

 

 

 Explain the Supreme Court case of Schenck v. U.S.  agree or disagree with the Supreme Court ‘s decision.  Defend your decision with at least two reasons.

 

 

 

CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD WAR I (Pages #64)

 

Discuss TWO reasons why the United States did not join the League of Nations.

 

 

 

What were the TWO most important results of World War I? Defend your decision with at least two reasons.

 

 

 

THE U.S. ADOPTS A POLICY OF ISOLATION and LIMITED INVOLVEMENT (Page #66)

How did the passage of the Quota Acts demonstrate the United States desire to isolate itself from other nations? Explain.

 

 

 

 

CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICTS AND SHIFTING VALUES of the TWENTIES (Page #67)

Explain the term “clear and present danger.”  How does this legal term allow national and state governments to limit civil rights during the 1920’s? Explain.

 

 

 

 

 

How did the Red Scare cause the Palmer Raids?  Do you think A. Mitchell Palmer’s actions were justified?  Why or why not?  Explain your answer fully.

 

 

 

What was the goal of Prohibition?  Discuss two reasons why you think prohibition failed.

 

 

 

 

 

Name and explain three changes in women’s status that occurred during the 1920’s

 

 

 

 

What was the Harlem Renaissance?  Why did it occur?

 

 

 

UNITED STATES RESPONSES TO IMMIGRATION (Page #68)

Was the Old Immigrant or New Immigrant more unwelcome in the United States? 

 

 

 

 

Which of the four reasons for nativism is the least practical?  Why?

 

 

 

 

How did the Quota Acts limit Southern and Eastern European immigration?  Why?

 

 

 

 

Should the U.S. have limited immigration in the early 1900’s?  Why or why not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION (Page #70)

 

Why would under-consumption lead to overproduction? Explain.

 

 

 

 

How did buying stocks on margin help cause the run on banks during the Great Depression?  Explain.

 

 

 

 

What was the importance of Black Tuesday?

 

 

 

 

 

In your own words explain what is meant by “the downward spiral” in the business cycle.

 

 

THE GREAT DEPRESSION (Page #71)

What were “Hoovervilles”? 

 

 

 

 

 

Why do you think many Americans in 1932 blamed President Hoover for the Great Depression?  Do you agree or disagree with that view?  Explain

 

 

 

 

 

Explain two ways President Roosevelt planned on getting the United States out of the Great Depression.  

 

 

 

 

 

What are two main differences between Hoover’s ideas about the depression economy and Roosevelt’s?  Explain.

 

 

 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL (Page #73)

How did President Roosevelt try to solve the following?

 

(a) the “run” on the banks

 

 

 

 

(b) unemployment

 

 

 

 

 (c) human suffering.

 

 

 

How did President Roosevelt try to solve the:

 

 

 

 

(a) agricultural overproduction

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explain how the Social Security Act stimulated demand as well as gave government aid to the needy.

 

 

 

 

 

 THE NEW DEAL ON TRIAL (Page #73)

Explain how the decisions of the Supreme Court in Schechter Poultry v. U.S. and U.S. v. Butler tried to limit the power of the federal government.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss two reasons why President Roosevelt felt he had a right to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices?  Do you think he was correct?  Explain fully.

 

 

 

FOREIGN POLICY LEADING TO WORLD WAR II (Page #76)

What is appeasement?  Why is it accurate to claim that the policy of appeasement failed?

 

 

 

 

What did the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 have in common?  Prove your answer with at least two reasons.

 

 

 

 

What event caused World War II?  How did that change United States foreign policy?  Do you agree with that change?  Why or why not?

 

 

 

 

Why is it appropriate to call the United States the “arsenal of democracy” after the Lend-Lease Bill in 1941?

 

 

THE WAR EFFORT (Page #78)

What was D-Day?  Why was it so important to the defeat of Nazi Germany?  Explain.

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss one positive and one negative aspect of the US. Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

 

 

 

THE HOME FRONT (Page #81)

Why does the Presidents’ power increase during wartime? Why is it so important for this to happen?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Explain what “Jim Crow” laws are.  How are the Armed Services during World War II similar to these laws?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss one similarity and one difference between Schenck v. U.S. and Korematsu  v. U.S.

 

 

 

 

 

How did the war affect women and African Americas.  Explain fully.

 

 

CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD WAR II (Page #84)

Discuss one similarity and one difference between the League of Nations and the United Nations.

 

 

 

 

How did World War II bring the U.S. out of the depression?  Explain fully.

 

 

 

 

What was the most important consequence of World War II? Defend your decision with two reasons.

 

THE COLD WAR (Page #85)

Explain in your own words the term “Cold War.”

 

 

 

 

Discuss two causes of the Cold War.

 

 

 

 

What is the U.S. foreign policy during the Cold war?  Why would the U.S. have to leave its policy of isolation?

 

 

 

 

 

What was the domino theory?  How did this show the U.S. fear of communism?  Explain.

 

 

 

 

 

What three things would the Truman Doctrine give to countries threatened by Communism?  How does this commit the U.S. to become involved around the world?