Download Unit 7 1890-1945 21-24 (1890-1945): foreign policy: imperialism

Unit 7 1890-1945
21-24 (1890-1945): foreign policy: imperialism, WWI, WWII & domestic 1920’s & 1930’s
An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges,
debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role.
Key Concept 7.2: A revolution in communications and transportation technology helped to create a
new mass culture and spread “modern” values and ideas, even as cultural conflicts between groups
increased under the pressure of migration, world wars, and economic distress.
1. New technologies led to social transformations that improved the standard of living for many
while contributing to increased political and cultural conflicts.
2. The global ramifications of World War I and wartime patriotism and xenophobia, combined
with social tensions created by increased international migration, resulted in legislation
restricting immigration from Asia and from southern and eastern Europe.
3. Economic dislocations, social pressures, and the economic growth spurred by World Wars I
and II led to a greater degree of migration within the United States, as well as migration to
the United States from elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere.
Key Concept 7.3: Global conflicts over resources, territories, and ideologies renewed debates over
the nation’s values and its role in the world while simultaneously propelling the United States into a
dominant international military, political, cultural, and economic position.
1. Many Americans began to advocate overseas expansionism in the late 19th century, leading
to new territorial ambitions and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.
2. World War I and its aftermath intensified debates about the nation’s role in the world and
how best to achieve national security and pursue American interests.
3. The involvement of the United States in World War II, while opposed by most Americans
prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, vaulted the United States into global political and military
prominence and transformed both American society and the relationship between the United
States and the rest of the world.
Textbook & Practice Essay Assignments
For each chapter, you may choose to:
1. answer all the question in the orange boxes, scattered throughout the chapter AND
 explain the chapter title AND
 identify the big idea
OR
2. Read the chapter and take detailed notes of the chapter
Either choice is fine and will be graded equally. If you choose #1, you must label the questions with their
page numbers as you answer them.
Chapter 21An Emerging World Power 1890-1918 (8 orange boxes)
Chapter 22 Cultural Conflict, Bubble and Bust 1919-1932 (9 orange boxes)
Chapter 23Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal 1929-1939 (8 orange boxes)
Chapter 24 The World at War 1937-1945 (8 orange boxes)
Unit Essay
“During [the 1920s], the city contested the supremacy of rural, small-town America. The city represented
a challenge for economic power: the determination of finance capitalism to regain the political
preeminence that had been pared away in the Progressive era. The city threatened to disrupt class stability
through the drive by unskilled labor to form industrial unions. . . . The city imperiled the hierarchy of
social status through the clamor of new immigrant[s]. Most of all, the older America was alarmed by the
mores of the metropolis.” — William E. Leuchtenburg, historian, 1958
“The geographic reorganization of urban and rural areas [in the 1920s] drew these regions into a closer
and more interdependent relationship with each other. This relationship was most evident in cities and
towns which lay in the outlying districts around urban centers. These towns attracted people from both
central cities and the surrounding countryside. . . . In addition, farm families that converted to truck
farming were tied more closely into the urban market and urban culture. . . . [A] shift from the direct
production of goods to the purchase of them in metropolitan markets [also] changed people’s habits of
consumption. . . . Consumption habits [drew] women out of the household and into the marketplace. . . .
A 1930 study of bread consumption, for example, found that most families [in urban and rural areas] had
shifted to store-bought goods.” — Joseph Interrante, historian, 1980
Using the excerpts above, answer (a), (b), and (c).
a) Briefly explain ONE major difference between Leuchtenburg’s and Interrante’s interpretations of
cities and rural areas during the 1920s.
b) Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development in the period 1919–1930 that is not
explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Leuchtenburg’s interpretation.
c) Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development in the period 1919–1930 that is not
explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Interrante’s interpretation