MS 2 History Finals Study Guide

What we have covered 2nd semester:
World War I
The 1920’s
The 1930’s
World War II

People you should know:
Georges Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
Gen. Alfred von Schlieffen
Czar Nicholas II
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Gen. Paul von Hindenburg
Gen. Henri-Philippe Pétain
Arthur Zimmermann
Alexander Kerensky
Vladimir Lenin
David Lloyd George
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover
Babe Ruth
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhardt
Alfonse Capone
Louis Armstrong
Pablo Picasso
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charlie Chaplin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Francisco Franco
Hermann Goering
Gen. Erwin Rommel
Gen. B.L. Montgomery
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
General George S. Patton
General Douglas MacArthur

Terms you should know and be able to put in to historical significance:
“The war to end all wars”
System of alliances
Trench warfare
Doughboys
‘remember the Lusitania’
Major battles of WWI: Marne, Somme, Verdun, Ypres
Armistice
Treaty of Versailles
Weimar Republic
“Fourteen points”
Teapot Dome scandal
Harlem Renaissance
Flappers
Prohibition
Credit/consumer debt
Bull/bear markets
Inflation
Stock market: margin pools,
Stock market crash
The Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
The New Deal (all the major new deal programs)-WPA, CCC, etc.
“stacking the Supreme Court”
NAZI
Pearl Harbor
Fascism
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
Annexation,
The Third Reich
Lebensraum
The final solution
Rome-Berlin Axis
Munich Pact
Anti-Comintern Pact
Non-Aggression Pact
Mein Kampf
Total war
European Theater
Pacific Theater
Kamikaze
Bushido
Gestapo
Major Battles: France, Britain, El Alamein, Midway, siege of Stalingrad, D-day, Bulge, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
A-bombs@ Okinawa, Nagasaki

You should be able to put major historic events in chronological order.

Essay Questions/concepts
You should be able to put together major historic concepts, mainly economically speaking…you should know how to talk about these events in terms of the facts!

Know how to explain:
1. how industrialization made the U.S. wealthier, stronger, and globally more impacting
2. the economic impact of World War I on the United States
3. the economic state of U.S. in the 1920’s
4. the economic/non-economic events that caused the Great Depression
5. The new deal and how it did/didn’t get America out of the Depression
6. How the Depression became an international event
7. the economic/other causes of World War II