APUSH Review for 3rd Nine Week Exam

Exam Date: March 1st

Topics to be tested over: Chapter 26-34
Harding Administration
President who served from 1921 to 1923, he was a president of average intelligence and was
very gullible. He tried to collect the best minds, with Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, but he
also had Albert B. Fall and Harry M. Daugherty, with the two of them liars and such.
Women’s roles in WWII
Unlike previous wars, Women actually played a large part in the war, now that they could
actually enlist in the war. Many women still made products for the soldiers, like bullets, and had
victory gardens and such to feed the soldiers.
Quarantine Speech
A speech given by FDR, where he states that there needs to be an international quarantine
against the epidemic of world lawlessness. It can be inferred that the nations that FDR is
referencing in this speech are Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy. This speech went in contrast with
the isolationist belief that America had at the time (1937) and caused the non-interventionists to
feel outraged.
Impact of the Munich Conference
The Munich Conference gave Hitler the Northwestern region of Sudetenland which had a lot of
Germans living in it, and Hitler gave his word that he would not invade any other lands, but by
giving Hitler Sudetenland, he was able to trap Poland, as it was in between Sudetenland and
Russia.
Neutrality Acts
A series of acts passed by the United States Congress that stated the USA’s rejection of
interventionism, focused on their neutrality, and was created in response to the turmoil in Europe
and Asia that led to World War II.
Destroyer Base Deal
A deal between the United States and Britain where fifty Navy Destroyers were transferred to the
Royal Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions.
New Deal Programs
A series of programs developed by Franklin D. Roosevelt made to help out Americans during the
Depression, which was caused by the stock market crash. Some examples of the New Deal
programs are the Civilian Conservation Corps, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Public
Works Administration, and more.
Social Darwinism
The belief that the rich deserved to keep their money because they were more “fit”, it was a term
that was used to justify the idea that the rich shouldn’t have to help the poor, that they could keep
their money.
Laissez faire
An idea that states that the government shouldn’t play a part in the nation. For economics, it is
the abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free markets. It is defined
where the government leaves the people alone in economic affairs.
Progressives
The Progressives were after the Populist Party and can be seen as an extension of it. They
focused on improving the conditions of laborers, instead of the focus of farmers that was seen in
the Populist Party.
Dust Bowl
An event that devastated the western states, causing the loss of many crops and caused many
families to starve, as their crops had all died. The Dust Bowl wasn’t only caused by droughts, it
was caused by the intervention of farmers from the East, who employed farming tactics that
didn’t work with the western states’ environments. The farmers also let the soil become weak by
not letting the soil regain its nutrients.
“The Grapes of Wrath”
A book written by John Steinbeck which depicts a family on a search for a new job in California.
They were spurred by advertisements that seemed to describe California as a heaven, a utopia.
However, this was not the case. The Grapes of Wrath depicts the conditions of families during
the Great Depression, and can be connected to the Dust Bowl, with many families moving to the
west in search for economic opportunities to support their families.
Prohibition
The Prohibition of alcohol. There was an act that caused the prohibition of alcohol, and it was
one of the costliest mistakes that FDR made. By prohibiting alcohol, it caused people to find
work-arounds to getting alcohol, promoting criminal acts that were supposed to have bene
lowered due to the prohibition of alcohol.
Modernisms vs. Fundamentalism
Modernists took a historical and critical view of the bible and believed that they could trust
Darwin’s theory of evolution without losing religion, while Fundamentalists rejected Darwin’s
theory of evolution and stuck with the bible.
Gibson Girl
The personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness. ‘She’ became a model for
fashion mimicked by women and admired.
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920 and it gave the right to vote to women,
specifically it gave the right to vote to everyone regardless of sex.
Fascist
Form of radical, right-wing authoritarian ultranationalism. They usually consisted of
dictatorships, with forcible suppression of opposition.
Totalitarian Governments
A model of government that prohibits opposition parties restricts individual opposition to the
state and its claims and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private
life.
The Great War
Another name for World War I, which involved only Europe and the United States. Germany
was the opposition in this war, but it was actually caused by the assassination of Duke Ferdinand
after multiple failed attempts. The war had two sides. One side had France, Russia, and Britain,
while the other had Austria, Germany, and Italy. When the war ended, all of the blame was put
on Germany, which led to the second great war.
Packing the Court
A plan by FDR to increase the number of judges in the supreme court to 15. He did this to get
more people to support his new plans, his 3 R’s: Relief, Recovery, Reform.
Atlantic Charter
A joint declaration between FDR and Churchill which defined allied goals for the post-war
world. It was written in 1941.
Senator Gerald Nye
An American politician that supported world war II-era isolationism, creating the Nye
Committee, which studied the causes for United States intervention, which was mainly Europe.
“Merchants of Death”
Epithet used in the 1930s to attack industries and banks that supplied and funded World War 1.
Rationing
The act of giving someone, specifically a soldier, a fixed amount of a commodity, like food.
Rationing led to victory gardens, which were parks that were turned into vegetable gardens for a
higher production of food, and the dust bowl was a reason why there was a need for rationing.
Stimson Doctrine
A note to Japan and China that the USA would not recognize any territorial changes in Asia.