UNIT 10: The Great Depression and WWII (1929-1945)
TIME FRAME: (3 weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date April 9 th (Day A)/April 10 th (Day B) for
Binder, Terms, AP PARTS documents/Core Structure Sheets PACE YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY- LAST
WEEK OF UNIT PLAN SHOULD BE STRICTLY REVIEW!!
Big Picture:
The Great Depression and New Deal led to the expectation of government intervention to maintain the economic stability of the nation. Between World War II and 1960, the New Deal philosophy that the government was a legitimate agent of social welfare became firmly embedded in the American mind.
Themes:
Demographic changes, American identity, politics and citizenship, reform, slavery and its legacies, war and diplomacy
Required Readings:
Chapters: 26, 27 in Divine
Zinn Ch. 15: “Self Help in Hard Times” DUE March 31 st before 7:30am. No Exceptions
A History of Women in America: “Don’t Steal a Job from a Man” DUE APRIL 2 nd before 7:30am. No
Exceptions
Primary Documents:
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Atomic bombs
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Fdrinaugural
 lettertofdr
Complete a Core Structure Sheet for each
1) Prior to American involvement in both the First and Second World Wars, the U.S. adopted the official policy of neutrality. Compare the policy and its modification during the period 1914-1917 to the policy and its modifications during the period 1939-1941.
2) Identify three of the following New Deal measures and analyze the ways in which each of the three attempted to fashion a more stable economy and a more equitable society.
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
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Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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Wagner National Labor Relations Act
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Social Security Act
3) Assess the validity of the following statement: The United States decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a diplomatic measure calculated to intimidate the Soviet Union in the post-Second World War era rather than strictly a military measure designed to force Japan’s unconditional surrender. Use the time periods 1939-1947.
Content:
Causes of the Great Depression
The Hoover administration’s response
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
Labor and union recognition
The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left
Surviving hard times: American society during the Great Depression
The rise of fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany
Prelude to war: policy of neutrality

The attack on Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of war
Fighting a multifront war
Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferences
The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age
Wartime mobilization of the economy
Urban migration and demographic changes
Women, work, and family during the war
Civil liberties and civil rights during wartime
War and regional development
Expansion of government power
TERMS TO KNOW
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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election of 1932
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21 st Amendment
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New Deal
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“Brain Trust”
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Francis Perkins, Secretary of Labor
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“First Hundred Days”
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fireside chats
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Relief, Recovery, Reform: “3 Rs”
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“First New Deal”
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“bank holiday”
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Emergency Banking Relief Act
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Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
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Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
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Harry Hopkins
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“dole” payments
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Civilian Works Administration (CWA)
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Federal Arts Project
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National Youth Administration (NYA)
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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subsidies
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Butler v. U.S., 1935
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Dust Bowl
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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
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National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
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Section 7(a)
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National Recovery Administration (NRA)
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“Blue Eagle”
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Schechter v. U.S., 1935
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Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

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sit-down strike, Flint Michigan
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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Federal Housing Authority (FHA)
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“red-lining”
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Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
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Indian Reorganization Act
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American Liberty League
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Father Charles Coughlin
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Huey P. Long, “Share Our Wealth”
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Dr. Francis Townsend
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Social Security Act
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“Second New Deal”
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1936 elections
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new Democratic coalition
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Judiciary Reorganization Bill, 1937
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“court packing”
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Recession of 1937-38
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John Maynard Keynes
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deficit spending
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“conservative coalition
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isolationism
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Washington Disarmament Conference
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Five-Power Treaty
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reparations
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Ruhr Crisis
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Dawes Plan
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Great Depression
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debt moratorium
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Mexican Oil Crisis
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Dwight D. Morrow
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Clark Memorandum
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“Good Neighbor” policy
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Montevideo Conference
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Buenos Aires Convention
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Tydings-McDuffie Act
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Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull
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totalitarianism
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fascism
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Benito Mussolini
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Adolf Hitler, Nazi Party
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communism
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Joseph Stalin
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Japan’s invasion of Manchuria
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Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
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Tripartite Pact: Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
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Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia
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London Economic Conference
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Nye Committee

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Neutrality Acts
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“cash and carry”
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Spanish Civil War
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Rome-Berlin Axis
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Panay incident
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“Quarantine” Speech
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Neville Chamberlain
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appeasement
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pacifism
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Sudetenland
Munich Conference invasion of Czechoslovakia
German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact invasion of Poland
Blitzkrieg
Fall of France
Battle of Britain
German invasion of the Soviet Union
Neutrality Act of 1939
“Arsenal of Democracy” Speech
Havana Conference
Winston Churchill
Internationalism
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
America First Committee
Charles Lindbergh election of 1940
“Four Freedoms” Speech
Lend-Lease Act
“shoot on sight” policy
Atlantic Charter
“Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”
Tripartite Pact: Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
“Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”
Home Front
Navajo “code talkers”
War Production Board (WPD)
“Rosie the Riveter”
Sunbelt
War Labor Board
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Smith-Connelly Anti-Strike Act
John L. Lewis
Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“Trinity” test
Detroit Race Riot
Philip Randolph
March On Washington Movement

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FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Commission)
Bracero Program
Zoot Suit Riots
Japanese internment
Executive Order 9066
442 nd Regiment Combat Team
Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
Bataan Death March
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of El Alamein
“Operation Torch”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
D-Day, invasion of Normandy
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Battle of the Bulge
General George Patton
Battle of Midway
Island Hopping
Okinawa
Iwo Jima election of 1944 death of FDR
President Harry Truman
Potsdam Conference
Hiroshima
Enola Gay
Nagasaki
Casablanca Conference
Chang Kai-shek
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Tehran Conference
Yalta Conference
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Holocaust, “Final Solution