UNITED STATES HISTORY

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UNITED STATES HISTORY FINAL EXAM REVIEW mR.
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Exam Format

• The Final Exam will consist of approximately 100
  multiple choice
• The Final Exam will be no more than 15 percent of
  the final grade
• Extra Credit will not be applied to the final
  exam
• The following slides are to direct you in
  reviewing
• Students may also want to consult abc-clio and
  the Vail High School Web Site

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Reconstruction

• Students should review the reconstruction period
  1965 1877
• Become Familiar with the effects in the south and
  the effect on Southern farmers and African
  Americans

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The Industrial Era

• Students will need to review technological
  changes and those who brought them about
• Students should review the robber barons and
  their contributions
• Students will want to be familiar with such items
  as The Jungle and the Triangle shirt waist
  coat company fire

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The Turn of the Century

• Students need to review the Spanish American war
  and the McKinley presidency
• Student will need to review the Roosevelt
  presidency and his contributions to the nation
• Key terms include Yellow Journalism, Great White
  Navy, Muckrakers, The USS Maine, Imperialism

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The First World War

• Students will want to review the causes of the
  first world war to include key nations and
  persons that led to the war
• Students will need to know what U.S. policy
  between 1914-1917 was regarding war in Europe
• Students will need to review the reasons for U.S.
  involvement
• Key terms include Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram,
  

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The Jazz Age

• Students will need to review the roaring twenties
  
• Students will want to review the 18th and 21st
  amendment
• Students should be familiar with poets and artist
  of the 1920s
• Students will need to review causes of the
  impending great depression
• Key terms The Crash, Stock Market, Scopes Monkey
  Trial, The Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition

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The Great Depression

• Students should be familiar with the causes for
  the great depression such as stock market
  speculation and buying on margin
• Students will want to Indentify Herbert Hoover
  and Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Students should be familiar with the following
  terms Alphabet agency, The New Deal, The Square
  Deal

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American Foreign Policy1920-1941

• Students should be familiar with American
  Isolationism
• Students should be familiar with the Panay
  incident and the America First Committee
• Students will need to be familiar with fascist
  aggression and the Neutrality acts
• Students need to familiarize themselves with the
  Good Neighbor policy and the Dawes plan and the
  young plan

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World War II

• Students will need to review the causes and start
  of the Second World War
• Students will need to understand Americas
  involvement in the war
• Be familiar with both the European and Pacific
  Theater of the war
• Students will need to be familiar with the first
  and second generation Japanese Americans
• Terms to know
• Operation Barbarossa, Operation Torch, Operation
  Overlord, Fat man Little boy, Corregidor, Bataan
  Death March

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Korea - Vietnam

• Students should understand containment and the
  Marshall Plan
• Students will need to review the Truman
  presidency
• Students should know the role of the French in
  Indo-China
• Students will need to review Kennedys role in the
  war
• Terms to know
• Truman Plan, Berlin Airlift, Cold War,
  Containment policy, the Domino Theory