Tuesday, June 1, 2010

8th Grade Social Studies Final Review

Format

25 True-False (1 point)

25 Multiple Choice (1 point)

1 Essay (50 points)

Note Titles

After Reconstruction

The Progressive Era

Turn of the Century

World War I

After the War

Great Depression

New Deal

World War II

The Cold War

Civil Rights Movement

Politics 1945-1970

Vietnam War

Social Change in the 1960s

Key Terms, People, Fun, Themes

“Remember the Maine”

U.S. Neutrality in World War I

Spanish-American War (Guam, PR)

Causes of World War I

Russian Revolution and WWI

Hoovervilles

Eleanor Roosevelt

Huey Long

18th Amendment

Causes of the Great Depression

FDIC

The New Deal

“Peace in our time”

World War II

Causes of World War II

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Japanese Internment

Germany Invasions

Pearl Harbor

Baby Boom

Cuban Missile Crisis

Levittown

Korean War, DMZ

Double-V Campaign

James Meredith

Voting Rights Act

Civil Rights Act

Barry Goldwater

Equal Rights Amendment

French Indochina

Cambodia, Laos

Earth Day

EPA

Guerilla Warfare

Avoiding Service in Vietnam

Containment Policy

Fannie Lou Hamer

George Wallace

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Emmett Till Murder

Civil Rights / Cold War

Lyndon B. Johnson

War on Poverty

Southern Strategy

Essay – You will not be allowed to have notes for the test, but you can practice writing this essay in five paragraph form.

What does it mean to be an American? Did this definition change throughout the twentieth century? Give at least three instances you consider “defining moments” of American identity in the twentieth century.

Sample Outline

I. Introduction

II. Defining Moment I

III. Defining Moment II

IV. Defining Moment III

V. Conclusion

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