Test Components:
- Thursday March 3: DBQ
- Friday March 4: 25 Multiple Choice Questions AND 3 Short Answer Questions
Review Video
I. Rise to World Power: What transformations occurred in the role of the U.S. on the world stage?
- Spanish-American War
- Why did the U.S. invade Cuba?
- Why did the U.S. annex the Philippines?
- Focus on the imperialist and anti-imperialist debate.
- WWI
- Why did the U.S. declare war on Germany?
- How did America's involvement in WWI impact the homefront?
- Focus on the ways in which opportunities expanded and contracted for different social groups on the homefront.
- Why did the Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles?
- Focus on the arguments in favor and against the League of Nations
- WWII
- How and for what reasons did America's foreign policy change in the 1930s?
- How did the fighting in WWII differ from WWI?
- How did America's involvement in WWII impact the homefront?
- Focus on the win which opportunities expanded and contracted for different social groups on the homefront.
- Why did the U.S. drop the atomic bombs?
II. Modernity and Its Discontents
- Decade of the 1920s: To what extent is the "Roaring Twenties" an appropriate label for 1920 - 1929?
- Identify the opportunities and risks of the new mass media (radio & movies) and new technology (automobile).
- Identify the ways in which the debates modernists and traditionalists exposed tensions in society.
- Debates over gender, science, religion, race and immigration
III. Great Depression and New Deal: How did the role of the federal government change in response to the economic needs of the citizens?
- Causes and problems of the Great Depression
- What caused the Great Depression?
- What problems did the Great Depression bring to the U.S.?
- How did the Hoover Administration respond to the problems of the Great Depression?
- How did the Roosevelt Administration respond to the problems of the Great Depression?
- Categorize the New Deal legislation as "relief, recovery, reform"
- Explain how specific pieces of legislation fulfilled its New Deal goal.
- Identify the arguments made by critics of the New Deal (conservatives and liberals).
- Describe the ways in which the lives of women, workers, and racial and ethnic minority groups changed during the Great Depression.
