Monday, May 10, 2010

The Roaring 20's Part 2 Review

The Roaring 20’s Part 2 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

What does the Scopes Monkey trial show concerning the US in the 1920’s?
The trail showed cultural and religous division
How does Prohibition affect the US? Who were some of its leading figures?
It made the crime rate rise and organized crime and bootlegging became more popular. Al Capone was a big leading figure in the 20's Gangster Life

Speakeasies-
Illigal drinking establishments

What did Americans do with their leisure time in the 1920’s?
Amercans started going to motions pictures and they also started listening to Jazz and attending sports games

List the stars and heroes of the 1920’s and the reason for their fame:
Charlie Chaplin Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey Bobby Jones and Charles Lindbergh
How did the role of Women change in the 1920’s?

List the famous writers of the 20’s:
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Enerst Hemingway
What African American movements came out of Harlem in the 1920’s?
New African American Consciousness

Describe the impact of Jazz on the US?
Became a a for African Americans to expess their experience in America

What other well-known artist and authors come out of the Harlem Renaissance?
Duke Ellington Langston Hughes Cab Calloway Claude McKay Jean Toomer Louis Armstrong

Holocaust Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

What problems did the Germans have that Hitler blamed on the Jews?
He thinks that they are the reason for all of Germanys problems including Inflation and them losing World War I

Describe the first persecution of Jews in Germany:
His first acts affected the Jewish people Economically by boycotting there busness and other things that helped the Jews economicly

What is Kristallnacht?
Kristallnacht was a response attack by German officials towards the jewish people by distroying there businesses and synagigues and led to 22 Jewish deaths and thousands of Jewish arrests
Describe life in both the death and concentration camps:

Describe the allied response to the Holocaust:even though several contries were sympathetic to the siuation in Germany many did nothing at first because of countries underestimating Hitlers ablitties but later on the US sent troops in to liberate camps and thats when America reliezed the seriousness of the Holocaust