AP Exam Review

Pt. 3 1900-1945

10• World War I– Causes• Archduke Ferdinand

– U.S. Involvement• Lusitania• Zimmerman Note• Unrestricted

Submarine Warfare– Selective Service– Creel Committee– Espionage and

Sedition Act

• Schenk vs. United States

– Aftermath• Wilson’s 14 pts.• League of Nations

– Not ratified• Great Migration

9• Roaring 20s - Society

– Red Scare• Palmer Raids

– Nativism• Birth of a Nation• Ku Klux Klan• National Origins Act• Sacco and Vanzetti

– Scopes Trial• Darrow v. WJB

– Prohibition• 18th amend. • Capone & organized crime

– Radio– Jazz– Margaret Sanger – BC

– Lost Generation• Hemingway, Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot

– Harlem Renaissance• Langston Hughes, Zora Neal

Hurston• Marcus Garvey – Back to Africa

– Charles Lindbergh

8• Roaring 20s – Economy– Scientific Management– Ford’s assembly line– Conservative Republicans– Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley Tariffs– Teapot Dome scandal– Herbert Hoover– Farm crisis

7• Great Depression – Causes and

Early Response– Speculation in stocks– Reliance on credit– Unequal wealth– 1929• Stock market crash – black Tuesday• Banks begin to Fail

– Hoover• Charities, businesses, and workers pull

together• Hoovervilles• Bonus Army

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• Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal– Brain Trust– Hundred Days/First New

Deal• Emergency Banking Relief

Act• NIRA/NRA – Industry and

labor• AAA – Farms• TVA – Jobs and electricity to

poor area• CCC – Jobs for young men –

environment• FDIC – Bank insurance

– 2nd New Deal• SSA – unemployed, retired• WPA – Public works• Wagner Act – Union rights• Fair Labor Standards Act –

end of child labor, beginning of minimum wage

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• Other GD Stuff– Frances Perkins– Court Packing– Dust Bowl migration– Critics of New Deal

• Father Coughlin• Huey Long• Francis Townshend

– CIO splits from AFL for unskilled laborers– Dorothea Lange photos

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• Buildup to War– Good Neighbor Policy– Neutrality Acts• Prohibition leads to cash and carry

– Lend Lease Act• End of neutrality

– Pearl Harbor– American strategy – concentrate on Germany first

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• World War II Action– D-Day– Midway– Stalingrad– Hiroshima/Nagasaki• Risk of casualties• Intimidation of Soviets• Unconditional surrender

2• World War II – Home front– Migration– Rationing– Women Working• Rosie the Riveter

– Internment– Bracero program• Zoot Suit Riots

– John L. Lewis – CIO• Three coal mine strikes

1• Postwar– Yalta Conference– Potsdam Conference• Punishment – Nuremberg

– Marshall Plan