Download Unit Seven: Great Depression to Cold War

Unit Seven: Great Depression to Cold War
Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Big Picture Questions:
1) How successful were the programs of the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression? Assess with respect to the
following:
a. Relief
b. Recovery
c. Reform
2)
Compare and contrast FDR’s response to the Great Depression with that of Herbert Hoover. Be specific, and yes you might have
to return to chapter 32 to review this.
3)
Why did the New Deal lead to extensive opposition from conservatives, especially those on the Supreme Court? (This is just a
shorter answer—you don’t need a whole outline to answer this question.)
Identifications:
New Deal—3 R’s: relief, reform, recovery
Fireside chats
critics of FDR (Coughlin, Long, Townsend)
Dust Bowl—“Okies” and “Arkies”
Bank Holiday
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
Federal Emergency Relief Act
Civil Works Administration
Works Progress Administration
Public Works Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission
Federal Housing Administration
Wagner Act
Soil Conservation & Domestic Allotment Act
United States Housing Authority
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Hundred Days
John Collier—Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
“court packing” scheme
John Maynard Keynes – Keynesian Economics
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
20th Amendment
National Recovery Administration
Second Agricultural Adjustment Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Truth in Securities Act
“Happy Days are Here Again.”
21st Amendment
Chapter 34 Assignment: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
Big Picture Questions:
1) The United States attempted to isolate itself from foreign troubles in the early and mid-1930s. Respond to the following with respect to this
statement:
a. How did the United States attempt to isolate itself?
b. Why did the United States attempt to isolate itself? Examine the ways in which our actions were aimed at the conditions of 19141917.
c. What were the effects of this attempt at isolation?
d. What events caused the United States to move gradually away from isolationism and neutrality?
e. How did FDR find a way to provide aid to Britain and move the United States away from its neutral stance?
f. Were our attempts at neutrality and isolationism a good idea or a bad idea? Why?
Answer each part of this question—you don’t need a separate thesis for each part. Do this assignment more like a series of short answers but
make sure you still use a lot of identifications to help you.
Identifications:
London Economic Conference
Reciprocal Trade Agreements (1934)
Axis Powers (Italy, Germany, Japan)
Neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)
“Quarantine speech”
Appeasement (Neville Chamberlain)
September 1, 1939
Miracle at Dunkirk
Conscription law (1940)
Destroyer-for-bases deal
Atlantic Charter
December 7, 1941—“a date which will live in infamy”
blitzkrieg
Totalitarianism (Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin)
Johnson Debt Default Act (1934)
Spanish Civil War—Franco (1936)
Munich Conference—Sudetenland
Non-aggression Act (1939)
Neutrality Act of 1939—cash and carry
Winston Churchill
Battle of Britain
Lend-Lease (1941)—arsenal of democracy
convoys
Charles Lindbergh
Chapter 35 Assignment: America in World War II
Big Picture Questions:
1)
What were the effects of WWII on the U.S. economy? How did the United States mobilize its resources (economic resources,
manpower resources, womanpower resources) to successfully carry out our wartime goals?
2)
What were the effects of WWII on women, on ethnic minorities, and on racial minorities? Did the war lead to greater equality for these
groups? Explain.
3)
How did the United States and its allies develop and carry out their strategy for defeating Italy, Germany, and Japan? Outline key
battles and turning points in the war in all of the theaters of the war.
Identifications:
“Get Hitler first”
Midway
War Production Board
War Labor Board
“Rosie the Riveter”
“Great Migration”
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Code talkers
Leapfrogging (Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa)
El Alamein
Casablanca Conference
D-Day (Eisenhower) June 6, 1944
Holocaust & concentration camps
V-E Day (May 8, 1945)
Potsdam Conference
Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
WAACS, WAVES, SPARS
Executive Order 9066—Korematsu v. U.S.
Four Freedoms
Office of Price Administration
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
Braceros
Baby boomers
WAACS, WAVES, SPARS
Congress of Racial Equality
Stalingrad
Teheran Conference
George Patton
Battle of the Bulge
kamikazes
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
V-J Day (September 2, 1945)
Chapter 36 Assignment: The Cold War Begins
Big Picture Questions:
1)
Describe the economic, cultural, and social characteristics of the United States after World War II. Consider such things as: the postWWII economic boom, postwar migrations to the Sunbelt and the suburbs, and cultural changes, and the McCarthy era.
2)
Explain the growth of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II. What caused these tensions, and
how were these tensions manifested in events in the early years of the Cold War?
3)
How did the United States try to contain the growth of communism? Look at the specific effects of NATO, the Truman Doctrine, the
Marshall Plan, U.S. involvement in the Korean War, and U.S. involvement in the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Identifications:
Taft-Hartley Act
G.I. Bill of Rights
Leavittown (white flight)
Yalta Conference
International Monetary Fund
United Nations
West Germany & East Germany
Berlin blockade
Truman Doctrine
Central Intelligence Agency
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Chinese Civil War (Zedong vs. Jieshi)
House Un-American Activities Committee
Joseph McCarthy
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Dixiecrats (Strom Thurmond)
Korean War (limited war; police action)
Fair Deal
McCarran Internal Security Bill
Employment Act
military-industrial complex
Sunbelt
Baby boom
Cold War
World Bank
Nuremberg Trials
Iron Curtain
containment (Kennan)
Marshall Plan
National Security Act (Department of Defense)
National Security Council (NSC)
Selective Service System
Douglas MacArthur
Loyalty Review Board
Richard Nixon vs. Alger Hiss
Henry Wallace & Progressives
NSC-68