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United States History: Unit Seventeen Worksheet Fully answer the following using the course outline, your textbook, and your class notes. 1. What was Hoover’s concept of the function of government? What did he think was the purpose of government in relation to the economy? 2. Explain the causes of the Great Depression, both in the United States and worldwide. 3. Why did the stock market crash in October of 1929? 4. Explain the economic collapse the occurred from 1929 to 1933 in the United States. 5. How did Hoover respond to the economic disaster that developed during his term? Explain. Was he successful in solving the financial crisis? 6. Identify the following: a) Agricultural Marketing Act b) Hawley-Smoot Tariff c) Reconstruction Finance Corporation d) Hoovervilles 7. How was Roosevelt’s approach to the economic crisis different from that of Hoover? Why was he so appealing to the American people? 8. Explain Roosevelt’s concept of “a new deal for the forgotten man.” What role did Roosevelt believe the government should (and, during his administration, did) play in achieving relief, recovery, and reform? What were the main targets of Roosevelt’s program? 9. Explain the variety of opposition and criticism that the New Deal faced. Which of these attacks on New Deal programs was the most dangerous, to both Roosevelt and to his program? 10. Was the New Deal a successful program? Did it achieve what it set out to achieve? 11. Identify the following: a) Federal Emergency Relief Act b) Civilian Conservation Corps c) Public Works Administration d) Agricultural Adjustment Administration e) National Recovery Administration f) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation g) Tennessee Valley Authority h) Social Security Act i) Works Progress Administration j) Wagner Act k) Huey Long l) court-packing 12. Explain the Good Neighbor Policy and the role it defined for the United States within the Western Hemisphere. 13. Why did the United States turn to and maintain isolationist policy during the 1930s? 14. How did Roosevelt respond to the increasingly militarism and aggression of Germany, Italy, and Japan? What did he hope to achieve by following this course of action? Explain the concept of nonbelligerent nation status. 15. Explain the increasingly hostile actions of the Japanese government in 1940 and 1941. How did this behavior provoke the United States into war? 16. Identify the following: a) Neutrality Acts b) Neutrality Act of 1939 c) Lend-Lease Act d) American Neutrality Patrol e) Tripartite Pact f) Pearl Harbor 17. Upon entry into the war, why did the United States agree to a “Europe First” strategy rather than immediately eliminate the Japanese threat? Explain. 18. What was the Allied strategy for Europe in 1942 and 1943? Explain the three major campaigns in which Allied forces were engaged in those years. 19. Trace the progress of the Normandy invasion from D-Day to the surrender of Germany. Why was the Allied assault successful? 20. What was the Allied strategy for the Pacific in 1942 and 1943? Explain the campaigns in which the Allied forces were engaged and the tactics used in those years. 21. Trace the progress of the invasion of the Philippines starting in the fall of 1944. Why was the Allied assault successful? 22. Why did Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan? Explain his options and reasoning. Did Truman make the right decision in both military and moral terms? 23. What impact did World War II have on the economy of the United States? Explain. 24. What types of prejudice developed within the United States during World War II? Explain the policy of interning Japanese Americans. Was this a necessary wartime measure? Explain. 25. Identify the following: a) Battle of the Bulge b) Bataan Death March c) kamikaze d) Yalta Conference e) Potsdam Conference f) Manhattan Project