Study Guide - Unit Eleven: World War One and the Twenties

Due Date	Assignment
Fri., Feb. 17	1. Read p. 554 – 561 2. Answer questions 1 - 3
Tues., Feb. 21	1. Read p. 562 – 568 2. Answer questions 4 - 6
Weds., Feb. 22	1. Read p. 569 – 576 2. Answer questions 7 - 10
Thurs., Feb. 23	1. Read p. 577 – 581 2. Answer questions 11 – 15
Fri., Feb. 24	1 Read p. 590 – 600 2. Read the handout on the Revived KKK 3. Answer questions 1 – 6 (for chapter 20)
Mon., Feb. 27	1. Read p. 600 – 605 2. Read the excerpt from Middletown 3. Answer questions 7 – 9
Tues., Feb. 28	1. Read p. 618 – 629 2. Answer questions 1 – 6 (Chapter 21)
Weds., Mar. 1	Rough Draft Due
Thurs., Mar. 2	1. Read p. 612 – 617 2. Read the excerpt on the controversy over Evolution 3. Answer questions 7 - 11
Mon., Mar. 6	1. Read p. 630 – 635 2. Read the packet of material from black writers 3. Answer questions 12 - 15
Tues., Mar. 7	Review for the Test
Weds., Mar. 8	Test

Reading Questions – Chapter 19

1.	What were the long-term and immediate causes of World War I?
2.	Where did Germany begin its war offensive and what happened there?
3.	What was the United States’ approach to the war in Europe? List and identify all the events that caused the United States to enter World War I in 1917
4.	How did the U.S. mobilize a strong military during WWI?
5.	What problems did Americans face as they prepared for and participated in WWI?
6.	What new weapons made fighting in WWI deadlier than fighting in previous wars?
7.	Identify the steps were taken to help the government run the war: War Industries Board, National War Labor Board, Food Administration, economic steps, Committee on Public Information.
8.	What did civilians do to support the war effort?
9.	Summarize the major social changes during the war.
10.	What were the attacks on civil liberties during the war?
11.	Summarize the provisions of the 14 Points. You need to know points 1 – 5 and point 14.
12.	What were the key provisions in the Treaty of Versailles?
13.	What were the weaknesses of the Treaty?
14.	Why did the Senate defeat ratification of the Treaty?
15.	Summarize the consequences of the war in Europe and also the domestic consequences of WWI.

Identifications – Chapter 19

1.	Nationalism	14.	Selective Service Act	28.	Flu epidemic
2.	Imperialism	15.	Convoy system	29.	Fourteen Points
3.	Militarism	16.	American Expeditionary Force	30.	Treaty of Versailles
4.	Alliance System	17.	John J. Pershing	31.	David Lloyd George
5.	Archduke Franz Ferdinand	18.	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	32.	Georges Clemenceau
6.	Trench warfare	19.	Sergeant York	33.	Vittorio Orlando
7.	Von Schlieffen Plan	20.	Armistice	34.	Reparations
8.	British blockade	21.	War Industries Board (Bernard Baruch)	35.	War-guilt clause
9.	U-Boats	22.	National War Labor Board	36.	Article X
10.	Lusitania	23.	Food Administration (Herbert Hoover)	37.	Irreconcilables
11.	Sussex Pledge	24.	Committee on Public Information (George Creel)	38.	Reservationists
12.	“Peace Without Victory	25.	Espionage Act	39.	Henry Cabot Lodge
13.	Zimmermann Note	26.	Sedition Act	40.	Schenk v. U.S. (1918)
		27.	Great Migration	41.	Eugene V. Debs

Reading Questions – Chapter 20

1.	What impact did the Russian Revolution have on the U.S.?
2.	Identify the events that reflected the concerns that Americans had about immigrants and radical movements..
3.	After reading the handout on the KKK, summarize the complaints that Evans has against modern society.
4.	What were the causes and effects of labor unrest in this period.
5.	Identify the evidence that shows that the US was interested in an isolationist foreign policy?
6.	Write a brief paragraph evaluating how successful Harding was in fulfilling his campaign pledge of returning the country to “normalcy”?
7.	From the textbook and the excerpt from Middletown, explain how changes in technology in the 1920s influence American life. Make a list of the effects of the automobile on American life.
8.	What evidence suggests that the prosperity of the 1920s was not on a firm foundation?
9.	List the inventions or trends of this period and then the effects of those trends.

Identifications – Chapter 20

1.	Russian Revolution	8.	Boston Police Strike	15.	Washington Naval Conference
2.	Red Scare	9.	Calvin Coolidge	16.	Kellogg-Briand Pact
3.	A. Mitchell Palmer	10.	Steel Mill Strike	17.	Fordney-McCumber Tariff
4.	Palmer Raids	11.	Coal Miners Strike	18.	Dawes Plan
5.	Anarchists	12.	John L. Lewis	19.	Emergency Quota Act of 1921
6.	Sacco and Vanzetti	13.	Warren G. Harding	20.	Teapot Dome Scandal
7.	Ku Klux Klan	14.	Return to Normalcy	21.	Urban sprawl
				22.	Installment plan

Reading Questions – Chapter 21

1.	How did women’s social behaviors and fashions change in the 1920s?
2.	What were the key social, economic, and technological changes in the 1920s that affected family life?
3.	What were the effects, both positive and negative that accompanied women’s changing roles in the 1920s?
4.	List and explain the elements that shaped a mass culture in this period.
5.	Who were some of the heroes and stars of this period?
6.	Cite examples of the flaws in American society that American authors attacked in their writing.
7.	Why was Prohibition passed?
8.	After doing the reading on Prohibition, summarize the reasons for Prohibition’s failures.
9.	What were the effects of Prohibition?
10.	After reading the textbook and the excerpt on the Controversy Over Evolution, explain why fundamentalists were so concerned about the teaching of evolution in public schools.
11.	What did the Scopes trial reveal about the tensions underlying American society in the 1920s?
12.	What were the goals of the major black leaders of this period?
13.	What were some of the important themes dealt with by black writers in the Harlem Renaissance?
14.	What were some of the important achievements by African-Americans in the arts during this period?
15.	For each passage or poem in the packet, write your own ideas of what this passage says about the attitudes of blacks during this period.

Identifications – Chapter 21

1.	Prohibition	18.	Jack Dempsey	35.	T. S. Eliot
2.	Speakeasies	19.	Gene Tunney	36.	H. L. Mencken
3.	Bootleggers	20.	Red Grange	37.	Algonquin Round Table
4.	Al Capone	21.	Knute Rockne	38.	Dorothy Parker
5.	Fundamentalism	22.	Bill Tilden	39.	James Weldon Johnson
6.	Billy Sunday	23.	Gertrude Ederle	40.	Marcus Garvey
7.	Scopes Trial	24.	Charles A. Lindbergh	41.	Universal Negro Improvement Association
8.	Clarence Darrow	25.	George Gershwin	42.	Harlem Renaissance
9.	William Jennings Bryan	26.	Charlie Chaplin	43.	Alain Locke
10.	Flappers	27.	Rudolph Valentino	44.	Claude McKay
11.	Miss America pageant	28.	The Jazz Singer	45.	Langston Hughes
12.	Flagpole sitting	29.	Edward Hopper	46.	Zora Neale Hurston
13.	Dance fads	30.	Georgia O’Keeffe	47.	Paul Robeson
14.	Mahjong	31.	Sinclair Lewis	48.	Jazz
15.	Bobbed hair	32.	F. Scott Fitzgerald	49.	Louis Armstrong
16.	Babe Ruth	33.	Edna St. Vincent Millay	50.	Duke Ellington
17.	Dorothy Parker	34.	Ernest Hemingway	51.	Bessie Smith

Themes

World War One

o The reasons why Europe broke out into war in 1914

o The reasons why America tried to stay neutral; why those attempts failed

o Why America entered the war

o The impact of the war on America’s economy

o The role of the federal government during the war

o Civil liberties during and after the war

o How the entry of the US influenced the outcome of the war

o The war’s consequences for the nation

o Racial and political unrest after the war

o The Treaty of Versailles: what was in it, how it set the scene for WWII, and why the US rejected it

The Twenties

o Struggles within American society during this period

o Racial tensions during the twenties; the rise of black nationalism

o The reasons for the emergence of the KKK, nativists, and religious fundamentalists

o The failure of Prohibition and the growth of organized crime

o The impact of the automobile on American society

o The trend towards urbanization and the growth of the suburbs

o Changes in how Americans spent their time in the 1920s; the expansion of a consumer society; the impact of modern advertising; the birth of “modernity”

o The impact of social change during the 1920s on American values, family, and the role of women

o The Harding and Coolidge administrations, and the relationship between business and government during the twenties

o Movements in American literature, art, and music during the 1920s

o The relationship between America and the rest of the world during the decade

o The American economy and the signs of trouble that will lead to the Great Depression