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History Benchmark
3rd Nine Weeks Benchmark - History 7th
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are some of the technology changes in the 1920’s? | Radio,Television, and Automobiles |
| What were the effects of the assembly line? | Faster production, and affordable automobiles. |
| What are the results of Prohibition? | Organized crime, speakeasies, and bootleggers. |
| What are the reasons that African Americans moved north in the Great Migration? | They made the journey to find new job opportunities in the city. Jim Crow laws, segregation, and violence towards blacks also led many families to leave the South. |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | Artist who was known for modernist paintings, landscapes, buildings, urban and flowers |
| Jacob Lawrence | Artist who was known for his “Great Migration” collection |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Author of the “Great Gatsby” |
| John Steinbeck | Author of “Grapes of Wrath” |
| Langston Hughes | A poet, author, and playwright that came of out the Harlem Renaissance |
| George Gershwin | Composer who was known for incorporate syncopated rhythms and jazz into his music; best known for his song “Rhapsody in Blue” |
| Duke Ellington | Piano player who wrote more than 1,000 songs that came of out the Harlem Renaissance |
| Bessie Smith | Jazz/Blues singer of the Harlem Renaissance |
| Aaron Copland | Composer who developed an American classical style of music; his most famous piece was Appalachian Spring |
| Louis Armstrong | Trumpet player who is known for his distinct voice who comes out of the Harlem Renaissance |
| Modernism | Modernist painters wanted to create images inspired by the artist’s own feelings and creativity. |
| What are the five goals of the New Deal Program? | -Social Security -Federal work programs -Environmental improvement programs -Farm assistance programs -Increased rights for labor |
| Who is the President that create a government recovery program to help the country get out of the depression? | Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| Joseph Stalin | The communist dictator of Russia during WWII |
| Adolf Hitler | Fascist dictator of Germany who took over most of Europe |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The President of the United States during most of the war. He also issued the Lend and Lease Act to help Great Britain before the attacks on Pearl Harbor. |
| Fascism | political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied and nationalism and, often, racism are emphasized. |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during the war |
| Benito Mussolini | The fascist dictator of Italy |
| Hideki Tojo | The Japanese dictator/army general who ordered the attacks on Pearl Harbor |
| Harry S. Truman | The President of the United States who ordered the atomic bombs be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| 10 events in order of WW2 | -Invasion of Poland - 1 -Invasion of France - 2 -Battle of Britain -3 -Lend-Lease -4 -Attack on Pearl Harbor - 5 -Battle of Midway - 6 -Battle of Stalingrad - 7 -D-Day Invasion at Normandy - 8 -Hiroshima - 9 -Nagasaki - 10 |
| Define Anti-Semitism | Hatred of Jews, that Hitler and other Nazi leaders began stirring up before the war. (Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s problems.) |
| Define Aryan Supremacy. | Aryan Supremacy is the Nazi belief that the Germanic/Northern European ethnic group was a superior race that should rule the world. |
| What is the difference between a concentration camp and a death camp? | Concentration camps: Large prison camps for anyone considered a threat to Nazi power. Poos conditions caused many prisoners to die. Death camps: Large numbers of Jews were sent to gas chambers to be killed. |
| What are the different tactics that the Nazi’s used to get rid of the Jews? | -Boycotts of Jewish stores -Threats, violence, and discriminatory laws against Jews. -Segregated areas for Jews. -Concentration camps. -Death camps. |
| Why did the US Government no longer trust Japanese Americans? | Because Japan bombed the US navy base at Pearl Harbor in 1941, December 7th, 1941. |
| What did the US Government do to Japanese Americans during WWII? | Many Japanese were forced to live in internment camps (these were essentially jails) in the United States. |
| How could people on the homefront help the war? | Make sacrifices Defence camps conserving and rationing resources. |
| What type of work did women do during WWII? | Thousands of American women took jobs in defense plants during the war. |
| Who became the symbol of women working in defense camps? | Rosie the Riveter |
| Allied Powers | The Big 3 - FDR - US, Churchill - Great Britain, Stalin - Russia |
| Axis Powers | Hitler - Germany, Mussolini - Italy, Hideki Tojo & Emperor Hirohito - Japan, All were fasists |
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