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Review ItemsReview Items
The following are concepts, events and people that will be most important on the
test over the 1920s, 1930s and WWII:
Importance of electricity and innovation in American life
Henry Ford’s contribution to American life
Writers of the Lost Generation
Sacco and Vanzetti
Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge
Important events of 1920s-1930s: Lindbergh, dam building, movies
Industries not part of the boom in the 1920s
Overall characteristics of American culture in 1920s
Racial issues--makeup of the KKK in the 1920s, Great Migration
Marcus Garvey’s contribution to racial discussion
Religious issues of the 1920s
Government attitudes/policies
toward business in 1920s
Prohibition’s proponents, opponents and problems
Herbert Hoover’s philosophy and reaction to the Great Depression
Attitudes of the 1920s toward environment, women, immigrants
Harlem Renaissance—people, importance, effect
Bonus Marchers
Eleanor Roosevelt’s role as First Lady
Dr. Francis Townsend
New Deal programs—AAA, CCC, TVA, FDIC, NRA, Wagner Act
Effect of Depression on American population
Effect of New Deal programs
Labor in the 1930s—John L. Lewis
Racial issues of the 1930s
Women and the New Deal
American life and culture during the Great Depression
Kellogg—Briand Pact
Nye Committee
Importance of heavy production and efficiency
Japanese internment—Executive Order 9066, Koramatsu v. United States
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Big Three Leaders
Notable events of WWII:
--Pearl Harbor—Dec. 7, 1941—Day that will live in infamy—2400
killed
--Flag raised by marines over Iwo Jima
--Invasion of Europe—D-Day—Omaha Beach on Normandy coast of France—June 6, 1944
--Battle of the Bulge, Belgium Dec-Jan 1944-1945
--Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, plane the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbetts pilot—this made Japan discuss
surrender
Notable economic events of WWII:
--Women in the labor force rose from ¼ to 1/3 of the population, though they didn’t get equal pay or treatment,
and most Americans felt they should go back to the home after the war.
--The wartime economy helped to double the size of the middle class.
--After the war, we had a pretty strong economy except for the inflation that came from
people wanting to buy goods and having money to do so.
The following are concepts, events and people that will be most important on the
test over the 1920s, 1930s and WWII:
Importance of electricity and innovation in American life
Henry Ford’s contribution to American life
Writers of the Lost Generation
Sacco and Vanzetti
Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge
Important events of 1920s-1930s: Lindbergh, dam building, movies
Industries not part of the boom in the 1920s
Overall characteristics of American culture in 1920s
Racial issues--makeup of the KKK in the 1920s, Great Migration
Marcus Garvey’s contribution to racial discussion
Religious issues of the 1920s
Government attitudes/policies
toward business in 1920s
Prohibition’s proponents, opponents and problems
Herbert Hoover’s philosophy and reaction to the Great Depression
Attitudes of the 1920s toward environment, women, immigrants
Harlem Renaissance—people, importance, effect
Bonus Marchers
Eleanor Roosevelt’s role as First Lady
Dr. Francis Townsend
New Deal programs—AAA, CCC, TVA, FDIC, NRA, Wagner Act
Effect of Depression on American population
Effect of New Deal programs
Labor in the 1930s—John L. Lewis
Racial issues of the 1930s
Women and the New Deal
American life and culture during the Great Depression
Kellogg—Briand Pact
Nye Committee
Importance of heavy production and efficiency
Japanese internment—Executive Order 9066, Koramatsu v. United States
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Big Three Leaders
Notable events of WWII:
--Pearl Harbor—Dec. 7, 1941—Day that will live in infamy—2400
killed
--Flag raised by marines over Iwo Jima
--Invasion of Europe—D-Day—Omaha Beach on Normandy coast of France—June 6, 1944
--Battle of the Bulge, Belgium Dec-Jan 1944-1945
--Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, plane the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbetts pilot—this made Japan discuss
surrender
Notable economic events of WWII:
--Women in the labor force rose from ¼ to 1/3 of the population, though they didn’t get equal pay or treatment,
and most Americans felt they should go back to the home after the war.
--The wartime economy helped to double the size of the middle class.
--After the war, we had a pretty strong economy except for the inflation that came from
people wanting to buy goods and having money to do so.