HIST 1312 Fall 2013 EXAM 2 Study Aid Wilson moral diplomacy U S neutrality and WWI rape of Belgium 1914 Trench warfare stalemate Unrestricted submarine warfare Zimmerman telegram U S contribution to the war effort WWI codebreakers Choctaw Secret Code Committee on Public Information Four minute men Espionage Sedition Acts Eugene V Debs Red Scare 1918 Flu Epidemic Great Migration African Latino Americans Fourteen Points Paris Peace Conference Treaty of Versailles Henry Cabot Lodge League of Nations Modernization of the 1920s Henry Ford mass production Role of Advertising mass consumption 19th Amendment the New American woman the New Negro Sports arts music in the 1920s Charles Lindbergh Babe Ruth Harlem Renaissance Louis Armstrong Palmer Raids Sacco Vanzetti Revival of the KKK Immigration restriction National Origins Acts Prohibition 18th Amendment Alphonse Al Capone George Remus Roy Olmstead Marcus Garvey Scopes Trial Stock market crash Hoover the depression Voluntary cooperation Associational Action Bonus Army March on D C Hoovervilles Hoover Flags Scottsboro Boys Election of 1932 Banking crisis Relief recovery reform Dust Bowl Father Charles Coughlin Dr Francis Townsend Senator Huey Long Social Security NIRA Section 7a NLRA Wagner Act Minorities Women New Deal Court Packing Plan Kellogg Briand Pact U S the League of Nations Good Neighbor Policy Japanese seizure of Manchuria Stimson Doctrine Pacifism in 1920s 1930s Nye Committee Investigations Neutrality Acts Italian invasion of Ethiopia German seizure of Rhineland Spanish Civil War U S Fall of France Battle of Britain Cash and Carry Destroyers Bases Lend Lease Act Undeclared Naval U Boat War Japan s GEACPS Beat Hitler First strategy FDR the Second Front Four Freedoms Atlantic Charter Unconditional Surrender WWII Home front USA Economic Industrial mobilization Manhattan Project Women the war effort Double V campaign Detroit Race Riot Zoot Suit Riots Japanese Americans the war Indians WWII U S initial reaction to the Holocaust Variations of possible Short Answer Questions 1 How did the U S come to intervene in WWI 2 What were the Fourteen Points Why did Wilson promote them How successful was he in achieving them 3 What was the Committee on Public Information and how did the U S mobilize resources and opinion for the war effort Explain the role of the Committee on Public Information during the war and how did it contribute to postwar anti radicalism i e Illustrate some wartime examples of coercive patriotism 4 Why was America s transition from war to peace so turbulent after WWI What were the major causes of the First Red Scare 5 Why was 1919 such a watershed year for the U S and the world 6 In what ways did the automobile serve simultaneously as an economic catalyst transportation revolution and cultural symbol in the 1920s What role did Henry Ford play in these developments 7 Describe the origins and effects of the consumer culture Why was it critical to prosperity in the 1920s Describe the role of advertising 8 Describe the impact of the 18th Amendment Prohibition on American society during the 1920s Why was it so difficult to enforce across the nation 9 What brought about the Great Depression aka causes of the Great Depression 10 What were the major policy initiatives and aims of the New Deal What were the achievements and limitations of the New Deal 11 How did the New Deal affect women Indians Hispanics other ethnic minorities and blacks 12 How did America respond to international developments in the 1930s 13 What steps led to American intervention in WWII 14 How did the U S mobilize resources and opinion for WWII How did the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter lay the foundation for postwar ideals of human rights 15 Compare the treatment of Italian Americans with that of Japanese Americans during World War II How do you account for the differences 16 How did WWII change life for Americans on the home front ex women minorities economy politics society culture individuals rights etc Possible Long Essay Questions 1 Analyze the United States experience of the First World War Why did the U S abandon its policy of neutrality and enter the war What role did America play in WWI And lastly what did Woodrow Wilson hope to achieve with the Treaty of Versailles and how was this a failure of peacemaking Be sure to discuss Wilson s War Policy the Draft Opposition to the War the role of various minority groups in the war Wilson s Fourteen Points Paris Peace Conference etc 2 Assess the impact of the First World War on American economy society people s rights and people s fears In your assessment consider what ethnic divisions and tensions in American society helped to undermine U S neutrality during the First World War How did the U S mobilize resources and opinion for the war effort What freedoms of Americans were limited during wartime And how did this lead to the First Red Scare 3 The decade of the 1920s witness tremendous tension between new and changing attitudes and actions on the one hand modernism and old and established values attitudes and conformity traditionalism on the other Describe and fully explain at least three major events factors that led to a real tension between old and new attitudes and lifestyles Then analyze how this tension showed up in American life and culture Suggestions as you study You might consider discussing the New Woman New Negro Prohibition KKK fundamentalism Scopes Trial advertising and more 4 Although popular images of the Roaring Twenties accentuate the decade s new or modern elements historians also recognize trends in the 1920s that contradict that impression Discuss at least three events and explain how YOU think the era can be best described and understood 5 Describe the slowly changing relationship of the federal government to the welfare of the American people 1920 1939 Use hard historical evidence to analyze the evolution that occurred 6 Analyze the ways in which FDR s New Deal was a radical or revolutionary change in America s development AND the ways in which FDR s New Deal was conservative in conceptions and operation Which side carries the weight of the evidence and why 7 A friend has asked you to explain the Great Depression Use this essay to explain to your friend the causes of the depression the different approaches of President Hoover and President Roosevelt the New Deal how it evolves its limits and its legacies impact upon different groups its decline etc and the decline of the