Final Exam Study Guide
History 1302 Online
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Final Exam Study Guide

Students who wish to be successful on this challenging exam should plan for adequate preparation.  That may vary somewhat, based upon each student's individual strengths, but at the very minimum, each student should read all of the assigned chapters thoughtfully and completely.  Some may need to read them more than once.  All should supplement their memory with note taking.  The following topics are presented to aid in that endeavor.  Looking up the terms on this study guide cannot substitute for a careful reading of the text, however. 

A firm understanding of the topics below will be essential to success on the Final Exam.  The chapter headings refer to your assigned readings in Divine, et al, American Story. 

Chapter 24

American foreign policy between 1901 and 1920
American Progressives and World War I
Level of US participation in World War I
President Woodrow Wilson
organized labor and World War I
Paris Peace Conference
American casualties in World War I

Chapter 25

the 1920s automobile
American workers in the 1920s
economic gains of the 1920s
Nineteenth Amendment
African American culture in the 1920s
The economy in the 1920s
Andrew Mellon

Chapter 26

stock market in 1929
Roosevelt's "Hundred Days"
Tennessee Valley Authority
critics of the New Deal
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
first woman Cabinet member
Francis Townsend.
Huey Long.
Father Coughlin.
Harry Hopkins.
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition
Great Depression unemployment rate

Chapter 27

Anti-Comintern Pact
Britain and France’s initial response to Hitler’s aggressions
Lend-Lease Act of 1941
the second front
Japanese Americans
African Americans’ migration
Major American military commanders in Europe
German and Japanese surrender
relative burdens of World War II borne by U.S. and Soviet Union