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USHS17: ANALYZE THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

A. Describe the causes, including overproduction, under-consumption, and stock market speculation that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. (702-706)

1. What were the causes which led to the Stock Market Crash? How did each cause create a problem for the country?

B. Explain the impact of the drought in the creation of the Dust Bowl. (714-715)

2. What was the Dust Bowl? Where did it occur? What created the Dust Bowl? Which group of people were hardest hit? Where did these people move to in order to survive? What were they called?

C. Explain the social and political impact of widespread unemployment that resulted in developments such as Hoovervilles. (710-712)

3. What impact did the Great Depression have on the following groups of people: men, families, children, African-Americans, and Mexican Americans?

4. What was President Hoover’s initial response to the Great Depression? Whom did he expect to help the needy? Why did it not work?

5. What is a breadline? What are Hoovervilles? Where was the largest Hooverville?

USHS18: DESCRIBE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL AS A RESPONSE TO THE DEPRESSION AND COMPARE THE WAYS GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMS AIDED THOSE IN NEED.

6. What was President-elect Roosevelt’s strategy to end the Great Depression? Whom did he expect to help the needy? Did it work? What was Roosevelt’s goal of the First New Deal?

D. Describe the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a works program and as an effort to control the environment. (736)

7. What was the purpose of the TVA? Whom was it designed to help? How did the TVA change the environment in the Tennessee Valley? Is the TVA still a government agency today?

E. Explain the Wagner Act and the rise of industrial unionism. (744)

8. What is the Wagner Act? How did it impact labor unions?

F. Explain the passage of the Social Security Act as a part of the second New Deal. (741, 738)

9. What was social security? Who was it designed to help?

G. Identify Eleanor Roosevelt as a symbol of social progress and women’s activism. (748-749)

10. What role did Eleanor Roosevelt fulfill as the President’s wife? How did she help advance the cause of

women’s rights?

H. Identify the political challenges to Roosevelt’s domestic and international leadership; include the role of Huey Long, the “court packing bill,” and the Neutrality Act. (746, 739, 779)

11. What were at least two criticisms of the New Deal? Who was Huey Long? Did he support or oppose the New

Deal? What was Long’s proposal for addressing the nation’s economic problems?

12. Why did Roosevelt attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court? Was he successful?

13. At the onset of World War II, was position did the U.S. take? How did the U.S. President Roosevelt attempt to

aid the Allies before the U. S. entered the war?

14. How did the Great Depression lead to World War II?

USHS19: IDENTIFY THE ORIGINS, MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS, AND THE DOMESTIC IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II, ESPECIALLY THE GROWTH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

I. Explain A. Philip Randolph’s proposed March on Washington, D.C., and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response. (810)

15. What was the March on Washington? Why did A. Philip Randolph feel the need to have a march? What was

President Roosevelt’s response?

16. What was the Double-V campaign?

J. Explain the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the internment of Japanese- Americans, German-Americans, and Italian-Americans. (789, 813)

17. When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? What did the Japanese hope to accomplish with the attack?

Was the attack a success or failure for the Japanese? Why? Where were three of the American aircraft

carriers which should have been at Pearl Harbor on the day of the attack?

18. How were Japanese-Americans, German-Americans, and Italian-Americans treated in the U.S. during WWII?

Why were the Japanese-Americans interned?

K. Explain major events: include the lend-lease program, the Battle of Midway, D-Day, and the fall of Berlin. (785, 807, 819, 823)

19. What was the lend-lease program? Who would have benefitted from the program?

20. What was the importance of the Battles of Midway, Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin? What is the significance of

D-Day? What nations participated in D-Day?

L. Describe war mobilization, as indicated by rationing, war-time conversion, and the role of women in war industries. (792, 814, 809

21. What is meant by the term “war mobilization?” What types of items were rationed during WWII? What role did

women fulfill in industries during the war?

M. Describe Los Alamos and the scientific, economic, and military implications of developing the atomic bomb.

22. Where was the atomic bomb developed? What was the code name for the development of the bomb? Name the

scientist primarily responsible for its development. What was his response when he discovered his work would

be used as a military weapon?

23. When was the atomic bomb first used as a military weapon? Against what country? What president made the

decision to drop the atomic bomb? When was the atomic bomb last used as a military weapon? Against what

country? What were the long-term effects of the atomic bomb on Japan? How did the atomic bomb change

future wars?

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VOCABULARY

1. speculation

2. Dust Bowl

3. Hoovervilles

4. Black Tuesday

5. New Deal

6. TVA

7. Social Security Act

8. Court packing

9. Wagner Act

10. Welfare state

11. Neutrality Act of 1939

12. Lend-lease Act

13. Executive Order 8802

14. Rationing

15. Manhattan Project

16. Kamikaze

17. Island hopping

18. Appeasement

19. Holocaust

20. Los Alamos

PEOPLE

Herbert Hoover

Franklin Roosevelt

Huey Long

Eleanor Roosevelt

A. Philip Randolph

Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Harry Truman

USHS17: ANALYZE THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

A. Describe the causes, including overproduction, under-consumption, and stock market speculation that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. (702-706)

B. Explain the impact of the drought in the creation of the Dust Bowl. (714-715)

C. Explain the social and political impact of widespread unemployment that resulted in developments such as Hoovervilles. (710-712)

USHS18: DESCRIBE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL AS A RESPONSE TO THE DEPRESSION AND COMPARE THE WAYS GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMS AIDED THOSE IN NEED.

D. Describe the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a works program and as an effort to control the environment. (736)

E. Explain the Wagner Act and the rise of industrial unionism. (744)

F. Explain the passage of the Social Security Act as a part of the second New Deal. (741, 738)

G. Identify Eleanor Roosevelt as a symbol of social progress and women’s activism. (748-749)

H. Identify the political challenges to Roosevelt’s domestic and international leadership; include the role of Huey Long, the “court packing bill,” and the Neutrality Act. (746, 739, 779)

USHS19: IDENTIFY THE ORIGINS, MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS, AND THE DOMESTIC IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II, ESPECIALLY THE GROWTH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

I. Explain A. Philip Randolph’s proposed March on Washington, D.C., and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response. (810)

J. Explain the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the internment of Japanese- Americans, German-Americans, and Italian-Americans. (789, 813)

K. Explain major events: include the lend-lease program, the Battle of Midway, D-Day, and the fall of Berlin. (785, 807, 819, 823)

L. Describe war mobilization, as indicated by rationing, war-time conversion, and the role of women in war industries. (792, 814, 809)

M. Describe Los Alamos and the scientific, economic, and military implications of developing the atomic bomb. (825-826)

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BATTLES: significance of each

D-Day

Battle of the Bulge

Fall of Berlin

Pearl Harbor

Midway

Iwo Jima & Okinawa

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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