Below is a review sheet outlining the important events/characters discussed in the first segment of this class. I encourage you to form study groups to discuss these terms and to work together to strengthen your understanding of twentieth-century America and its increasingly international role.  In the process of forming questions and offering solutions, you will clarify the issues for your classmates as well as yourself.  With this said, it is also essential for you to study on your own.  Find a quiet place where you can focus on these themes and ensure that you understand them without the assistance of your study mates, hints from your notes as you read along, etc. For those students hoping to earn an A or B, it is rarely sufficient to simply reread your notes and the textbook.  For most of us, studying includes making up outlines that we use to test our knowledge, or perhaps flashcards that you make after each lecture from the outlines. I will be available during office hours and by email to help you with any questions that might arise.

Most of the exam will be made up of multiple choice questions, but there will be a small chronology section where you have to put a series of events in chronological order, as well as a small mapping section.  When studying, it may help you to think about the significance of each of these terms and why they are important. Remember the basics:  Who was involved, When did it happen, Where did it happen, What happened, and Why is it important; what is its significance.  You are responsible for the material in chapters 21 and 23 - 26 in The American Experiment.

THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
The Nature of Progressivism
The Need for Reform
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Characteristics of Progressivism
Middle Class Origins
Optimism &Romantic Individualism
Environmental Determinism
Progressivism in Action
Muckrakers ("Pre-Progressives)
The First Step: The Social Settlement Movement
The Social Gospel
Causes: Temperance, Suffrage, Civil Rights, Health Care, Democracy, etc.
Black Progressivism: Washington, DuBois, the Niagra Movement, NAACP
The Accomplishments of Progressivism
Early Period (c. 1890-1900)
Later Stages (c. 1900-1918)
18th Amendment
19th Amendment

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, THE IMPERIALIST PROGRESSIVE
Background
View of Government--the "Golden Mean"
Roosevelt's use of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Trust Busting
Mine Worker's Strike of 1902
Hepburn Act
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
Employer's Liability Act
Conservation
Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal Controversy
Roosevelt's approach to government and leadership
Roosevelt's Impact on the power of the presidency
William Howard Taft
The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
Candidate in the Election of 1912
Roosevelt's "New Nationalism"
Republican Convention
Roosevelt forms the Progressive Party

World War I
Wilson’s foreign policy
William Jennings Bryan
“Cooling Off” treaties
Dollar Diplomacy (Taft)
Pancho Villa
American Punitive Expedition in Mexico
American “neutrality” in WWI
Anti-British vs. Anti-German sentiments
Problems of submarine warfare
Lusitania sinking
Germany & unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman Telegram
Russian Revolution
Central Powers
Allied Powers
U.S. Contributions to Victory
Lessons of WWI
Treaty of Versailles
Wilson and the Fourteen Points
League of Nations
18th Amendment
19th Amendment

1920s
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Nativism
Sacco & Vanzetti
Emergency Immigration Act
Johnson Act
KKK
Race Riots
Harlem Renaissance
Organized Crime in America
Alphonse “Scarface” Capone
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Prohibition
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover

FDR and the Great Depression (see your textbook for more on these)
20^th Amendment
21^st Amendment
Great Depression
Bonus Army/March
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
New Deal Programs
--focusing especially on- the CCC, FERA, CWA, PWA, NIRA, AAA, TVA
Second New Deal
--WPA
--Social Security Act

Rise of Nazi Germany and the Road to WWII
“Stab in the Back” Myth with the Nazis
Nazi Rise to Power
Adolf Hitler
Beer Hall Putsch
Mein Kampf
Reichstag Fire
SA (Sturmabteilung/Brown Shirts)
SS (Schutzstaffel/Black Shirts)
Night of the Long Knives
Nuremberg Race Laws
German Reoccupation of the Rhineland
Anschluss with Austria
Sudatenland/Czechoslovakia
Munich Conference
Kristallnacht
Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact
Joseph Stalin
Lebensraum
Neville Chamberlain
Rise of Fascism

Rise of Imperial Japan and the Road to WWII
Invasion of Manchuria, 1931
Rape of Nanking
Flying Tigers/American Volunteer Flying Corps
Attack on Pearl Harbor (basic Japanese plan, what happened during the attack, how did the U.S. respond)

Maps

For study maps that you might want to use for this exam, go to: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_sub/maps-rev3.htm