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YOUR TOPICWWI & The Red Scare

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Bonus Question: 5000 pts

TOPIC 1: 200Question:

What are two causes of World War I?

Answer: Imperialism Nationalism (German) Assassination of Franz Ferdinand Mechanical modernization Secretive alliances (Triple Alliance-Germany, Austria, Hungary)

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TOPIC 1: 400Question:

What was the domestic reaction to socialism and communism here in the US??

Answer

The Red Scare (period of strong Anti-Communism in the United States)

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TOPIC 1: 600Question:

How did the Alien and Sedition Acts influence WWI events?

Answer ..? Sedition Acts prohibited anti-American acts including disloyalty to

the government, abuse of the American flag, and the military

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TOPIC 1: 800Question:

Describe the outcome Bolshevik Revolution and its influence in WWI.

Answer The Bolshevik Revolution happened in Petrograd. The Bolsheviks

overthrew the Russian Provisional Government. The locals, dominated by Bolsheviks, gained power.

WWI--- The Bolshevik Revolution represented the rise and spread of communism. The Bolsheviks eventually were known as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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TOPIC 1: 1000Question:

At the end of WWI, a conference was held in Paris, France. What was the outcome?

Answer

14 points and League of Nations

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TOPIC 2: 200Question:

Which amendment prohibited intoxicating liquors in the 1920s. Was it effective?

Answer The 18th amendment. Not effective, bootleggers began producing

large quantities of alcohol to sell in secret.

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TOPIC 2: 400Question:

Describe the Scopes Trial.

Answer After WW1, traditionalists struggled to maintain their values and ideas

of creationism. Modernists challenged their views by maintaining an evolutionist view.

The Scopes trial examined a school teacher accused of violating a state law by teaching evolution in the school. He was found guilty but set free due to a technicality.

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TOPIC 2: 600Question:

In 1922, under Warren G. Harding’s administration, a bribery incident occurred known as…

Answer

The Teapot Dome Scandal

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TOPIC 2: 800Question:

Post WWI, an agreement was signed renouncing war. What was it called? And name 2 countries that signed it.

Answer The Kellogg-Briand Pact.

Acceptable countries: U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Japan

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TOPIC 2: 1000Question:

What caused the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930? What does in entail?

Answer Passed with the support of Herbert Hoover, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Act was the second largest tariff (tax) increase on imported goods in the U.S.

Some sources argue that the deliberations regarding the Act led to the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Other countries retaliated by imposing similar tariffs decreasing both imports and exports.

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TOPIC 3: 200Question:

Describe the Bonus Army.

AnswerSoldiers during WWI were promised a signing bonus, during the Great Depression when their bonuses were not yet paid out, they march on the capitol in the summer of 1932 and demanded their payments. The march is known as the Bonus March.

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TOPIC 3: 400Question:

Describe the New Deal and who implemented this reform policy.

Answer The New Deal consisted of 3 R’s: Relief, Reform, and Recovery.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked to pass the series of economic programs to provide economic relief.

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TOPIC 3: 600Question:

Define trickle-down economics.

Answer Trickle-down economics is a theory that tax breaks and other benefits

given to the wealthy upper class will lead to the “trickling-down” of wealth to the needier classes.

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TOPIC 3: 800Question:

Describe farm life in the 1920s and 30s.

Answer:

Open to teacher discretion

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TOPIC 3: 1000Question:

What is the Dust Bowl?

Answer: Beginning in 1930, a series of destructive dust storms in the Great

Plains caused major ecological and economic damage to rural areas throughout America.

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TOPIC 4: 200Question: What did the United States enforce on the home-front to protect itself

during WW2 against future attacks?

Answer Japanese internment camps Korematsu v. United States court case ended in Executive Order 9066.

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TOPIC 4: 400Question:

What is the Lend-Lease Act? And why was is set in place?

Answer: This plan was set in place in order to help countries that are vital to

the protection and defense of the United States. Supplied other countries with arms by lending or leasing the

equipment necessary.

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TOPIC 4: 600Question:

Describe 3 causes of WW2.

Answer Treaty of Versailles Failure of Appeasement Expansionism/Imperialism Nazi Party (Adolf Hitler) Failure of League of Nations

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TOPIC 4: 800Question:

Name the term for an innovative air attack method used during WW2.

Answer

Saturation bombing.. Also known as carpet bombing.

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TOPIC 4: 1000Question:

Describe the long term effects (at least two)of the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust.

Answer

Open, several answers will be accepted at teacher’s discretion.

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TOPIC 5: 200Question:

Define the Iron Curtain and name one effect.

Answer

Ideological separation of Europe.

Name one effect…

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TOPIC 5: 400Question:

Massive retaliation

Answer

Military doctrine– state or nation makes committed plans for retaliation.

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TOPIC 5: 600Question:

What is the Suez Canal in relation to WWI?

Answer 1915, Egypt’s Suez Canal (controlled by the British) was attacked by

Turkish military. Britain fought back and regained control in 1916.

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TOPIC 5: 800Question:

Describe the Nuremberg Trials.

Answer Nuremberg Trials were military tribunals led by the Allied forces (you

should know these). The trials were geared towards charging Nazi Germany for the atrocities of WWII.

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TOPIC 5: 1000Question:

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer In efforts to strengthen Greece and Turkey from the Soviet power, the

U.S. provided military aid to them.

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BONUS QUESTION: 5000 PTS.

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Give the full name of each acronym listed or define their purpose. Core SCLC SNCC NAACP Black PanthersAnswer Congress of Racial Equality Southern Christian Leadership Conference Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee National Assistance for the Advancement of Colored People Revolutionary, leftist civil rights party

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Define SOPA and PIPA!

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What are the Palmer Raids?