Unit+Ten+Test+Review+(including+WWII)

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.