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AP U.S. History
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Unit Eight
Depression, New-Deal, and World War II
1929—1945
DIRECTIONS:
This is your study resource to use as we progress through our unit. It lists concepts, terms,
and an outline of items that may appear on the unit exam or the AP Exam. Use this guide
as you wish; it will not be collected. However, all material on this guide (and from class) is
subject to being tested.
READINGS :
Bailey, et al, Chapters 32 (at page 759), 33, 34, 35, 36
Taking Sides, VOLUME 2, Issues 10, 11
Miscellaneous primary source documents
UNIT DATES:
ANTICIPATED TEST:
After Winter break.
PLEASE NOTE:
Your weekly agendas may specify certain portions of a chapter, or certain chapters, to be read as homework
prior to a day’s lesson. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD ONLY READ PAGES LISTED IN YOUR
AGENDAS. FURTHERMORE, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL READINGS
FOR THE UNIT. Do not fall into the trap of only reading what is specified in the agendas.
CHAPTER 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920—1932 (Start at page 759)
Chapter Objectives:
1. Describe the economic tangle of loans, war debts, and reparations, and indicate how the United
States dealt with it.
2. Discuss how Hoover went from being a symbol of twenties business success to a symbol of
depression failure.
3. Explain how the stock-market crash set off the deep and prolonged Great Depression.
4. Indicate how Hoover ’s response to the depression was a combination of old-time individualism
and the new view of federal responsibility for the economy.
Identify, define, describe and state the historical significance of the following:
Herbert Hoover Washington Conference
Black Friday
Reconstruction Finance Corp.
Kelogg-Briand Pact
Bonus Army
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
CHAPTER 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933—1938
Chapter Objectives:
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Describe the rise of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932.
Explain how the early New Deal pursued the “three s” of relief, recovery, and reform.
Describe the New Deal’s effect on labor and labor organizations.
Discuss the early, or first New Deal’s efforts to organize business and agriculture in the NRA and the
AAA, and indicate what replaced those programs after they were declared unconstitutional.
Describe the Supreme Court’s hostility ot many New Deal programs, and explain why FDR’s “Court
packing” plan failed.
Explain the political coalition that Roosevelt mobilized on behalf of the New Deal and the
Democratic Party.
Discuss the changes the New Deal underwent in the late thirties and explain the growing opposition
to it.
Analyze the arguments presented by both critics and defenders of the New Deal.
Identify, define, describe and state the historical significance of the following:
Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Frances Perkins
Father Coughlin
Huey Long
Francis Townsend
Harold Ickes
George W. Norris
John L. Lewis
Alfred M. Landon
Boodnoggling
Parity
New Deal
Brain Trust
Hundred Days
the “three Rs”
Glass-Steagall Act
Works Progress Admin.
Schechter case
National Recovery Act Public Works Admin.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Dust Bowl
Tennesee Valley Authority
Federal Housing Authority
Social Security Act
Wagner Act
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Li berty League
Roosevelt Coalitiion
20 Amendment
21st
Amendment
Court-packing scheme Civilian Conservation Corps
Securities and Adjustment Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
National Labor Relations Board
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CHAPTER 34: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933—1941
Chapter Objectives:
1. Describe the isolationist motives and effects of FDR’s early foreign policies.
2. Explain how American isolationism dominated U.S. policy in the mid-1930s.
3. Explain how America gradually began to respond to the treat from totalitarian aggression while still
trying to stay neutral.
4. Describe Roosevelt ’s increasingly bold moves toward aiding Britain in the fight against Hitler and
the sharp disagreements these efforts caused at home.
5. Discuss the events and diplomatic issues in the Japanese-American conflict that led up to Pearl
Harbor .
Identify, define, describe and state the historical significance of the following:
Cordell Hull
Francisco Franco
Reciprocity
London Economic Conf.
“Merchants of Death”
China Incident
“Cash-and-Carry”
Atlantic Charter
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Charles Lindbergh
Totalitarianism
Isolationism
Good Neighbor Policy Reciprocal Trade Agreement
Nye Committee
Neutrality Acts
“Quarantine” Speech Hitler-Stalin
“Phony War”
America First
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
Adolf Hitler
Wendell Willkie
Nazi Party
Rome-Berlin Axis
Spanish Civil War
Nonaggression Pact
Lend-Lease
CHAPTER 35: America in World War II, 1941—1945
Chapter Objectives
1. Tell how America reacted to Pearl Harbor and prepared to wage war against both Germany and
Japan .
2. Describe the domestic mobilization for war.
3. Describe the war’s effects on American society, including regional migration, race relations, and
women’s roles.
4. Be GENERALLY familiar with Allied efforts against the Axis Powers and the strategy used by the U.S.
in the Pacific
5. Discuss FDR’s 1944 fourth-term election victory.
6. Explain the final military efforts that brought Allied victory in Europe and Asia and the significance
of the atomic bomb.
Identify, define, describe and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry J. Kaiser
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Office of Price Admin.
Second Front
D Day
A. Philip Randolph
Joseph Stalin
Albert Einstein
War Labor Board
Teheran Conference
V-E Day
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
George S. Patton
Thomas E. Dewey
War Production Board
braceros
Smith-Connally Act
Casablanca Conf.
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Potsdam Conference
V-J Day
CHAPTER 36: The Cold War Begins, 1945—1952
Chapter Objectives:
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Describe he economic transformation of the immediate post-World War II era.
Describe the postwar migrations to the “ Sunbelt ” and the suburbs.
Explain the changes in the American population structure brought about by the “baby boom.”
Explain the growth of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union after Roosevelt ’s
death and Germany ’s defeat.
5. Describe the early Cold War conflicts over Germany and Eastern Europe .
6. Discuss American efforts to “contain” the Soviets through the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan,
and NATO
7. Describe the expansion of the Cold War to Asia and the Ko rean War
8. Analyze the postwar domestic climate in America and explain the growing fear of internal
communist subversion.
Identify, define, describe and state the historical significance of the following:
Harry S. Truman
George F. Kennan
Douglas MacArthur
Dean Acheson
Joseph McCarthy
Benjamin Spock
J. Strom Thurmond
The Rosenbergs
Henry Wallace
Thomas Dewey
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Yalta Conference
Cold War
United Nations
Nuremberg Trials
Iron Curtain
Berlin Airlift
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
National Security Act “White Flight”
North Atlantic Treaty Org.
Taft-Hartley Act
McCarran Act
Point Four program
Fair Deal
38th Parallel
NSC-68
Inchon landing
Sunbelt
House Committee on Un-American Activities
Korean War
Review Questions:
1. How and why did the American economy soar from 1950 to 1970?
2. How have economic and population changes shaped American society since World War II?
3. What were the immediate conflicts and deeper causes that led the United States and the Soviet
Union to go from being allies to being bitter Cold War rivals?
4. Explain the steps that led to the long-term involvement of the United States in major overseas
military commitments, including NATO and the Ko rean War. How did expanding military power and
the Cold War affect American society and ideas?
5. Discuss Harry Truman’s role as a leader in both international and domestic affairs from 1945—
1952. Does Truman deserve to be considered a “great” president? Why or why not?
6. The text says that “both countries had been largely isolated from world affairs before World War II.”
Why did WWII—unlike WWI—lead to a permanent end to American isolationism? How did the long
American traditions of both democracy and isolationism affect U.S. policy during the Cold War?
SUPREME COURT CASES TO KNOW:
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. (1935)
Ko rematsu v. U.S. (1944)
U.S. v. Butler (1936)
Smith v. Allwright (1944)
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937)
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
U.S. v. Darby Lumber Co. (1941)
U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936)
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Chapter Review Questions:
Chapter 32
1. What were the effects of the Great Depression on the American people, and how did President
Hoover attempt to balance the belief in “rugged individualism” with the economic necessities of
the time?
2. How did some of the economic politics of the 1920s and 1930s help cause and deepen the
depression?
3. What were the effects of America ’s international economic and political isolationism in the
1920s?
4. What weaknesses existed beneath the surface of the general 1920s prosperity, and how did these
weaknesses contribute to the Great Depression?
Chapter 33
1. What qualities did FDR bring to the presidency, and how did he display them during the New Deal
years? What particular role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in FDR’s political success?
2. How did the early New Deal legislation attempt to achieve the three goals of relief, recovery, and
reform?
3. How did Roosevelt ’s programs develop such a strong appeal for the “forgotten man,” and why did
the New Deal arouse such opposition from conservatives, including those on the Supreme Court?
4. Discuss the political components of the “ Roosevelt coalition” formed in the 1930s. What did the
New Deal offer to the diverse elements of this coalition?
5. Was the New Deal essentially a conservative attempt to save American capitalism from collapse, a
radical change in traditional American anti-government beliefs, or a moderate liberal response to a
unique crisis?
6. How was the New Deal a culmination of the era of progressive reform, and how did it differ from the
pre-World War I progressive era?
Chapter 34
1. How and why did the United States attempt to isolate itself from foreign troubles in the early to mid1930s?
2. Discuss the effects of the U.S. neutrality laws of the 1930s on both American foreign policy and the
international situation in Europe and East Asia .
3. How did the Fascist dictators’ continually expanding aggression gradually erode the U.S.
commitment to neutrality and isolationism?
4. How did Roosevelt manage to move the United States toward providing effective aid to Britain while
slowly undercutting isolationist opposition?
5. Was American entry into World War II inevitable? Is it possible the U.S. might have been able to
fight either Germany or Japan , while avoiding armed conflict with the other?
6. How did the process of American entry into World War II compare with the way the country got into
World War I? How were the Neutrality Acts aimed at the conditions of 1914—1917, and why did
they prove ineffective in the conditions of the 1930s?
Chapter 35
1. What effects did World War II have on the American economy? What role did American industry
and agriculture play in the war?
2. Discuss the effects of World War II on women and on racial and ethnic minorities. Is it accurate to
see the war as a key turning point in the involvement toward equality for some or all of these
groups?
3. Ever since World War II, historians and other scholars have commonly spoken of “postwar American
society.” How was American society different after the war than before? Were these changes all
direct or indirect results of the war, or would many have occurred without it?
4. What were the costs of World War II, and what were its effects on America ’s role in the world?
5. Compare America ’s role in World War I—domestically, militarily, and diplomatically—with its role in
World War II. What accounts for differences in America ’s participation in the two wars?