UNIT 7 STUDY PLAN & SYLLABUS
Unit 7
1920s, 30s, &
40s
Textbook - Tindall & Shi:
- Ch 26: The Modern Temper (p. 968 – 989)
o Skip p. 979-80 the women’s movement - already read
- Ch 27: Republican Resurgence & Decline (p. 991 – 1020)
o P. 991-1011 = 1920s
o P. 1012 – 1020 = start / causes of the Depression
- Ch 28: New Deal America (p. 1022 – 1061)
o Will have a quiz over this chapter!!
- Ch 29: From Isolation to Global War (p. 1063 – 1089)
o Can skip “attepts at disarmament p.1065-1067
o Skim because from World History (start of WWII Europe) “War Clouds p. 10691078
- Ch 30: The Second World War (p. 1091 – 1130)
o Can skip “the allied drive toward berlin” p. 1102- 1110 (pick up at D-Day and
After)
o HINT: focus most on the war in the Pacific
Review Book: (use to help summarize big ideas – this does not mean you can skip the book)
- Ch 23: A New Era – The 1920s (p.470 – 485)
- Ch 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929- 1939 (p. 492 – 509)
- Ch 25: Diplomacy and World War II, 1929 – 1945 (p. 518 – 536)
March
12th – 16th
March
19th – 23rd
-No AP or
Honors US
History
students will
be taking the
GHSGT in
Social
studies!!!
Activities 1920s:
- 10 days that Unexpectedly Changed America: Scopes – The Battle over America’s Soul – The History
Channel
- DBQ work time = 3/14 & 3/15 (after we finish the film stated above – bring materials to work on,
also I will be meeting with students during this time to discuss the progress of their projects or the
lack thereof)
Read the 1920s chapter in the Review book
o Identify the terms listed for the 1920s (may need to use textbook at points as well)
o Answer the Review Questions p. 486-7
o Due A day = Wed 14th & B day = Thurs 15th
Activities 1930s:
- DBQ Project Part 3 Due (Documents) A = Tues 20th & B = Wed 21st
- Historical Viewpoints of FDR: The Man of the Century by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (complete a
Historical Viewpoints document page –found on blog with example, along with reading – APUSH 
syllabus)
o Due same day as the quiz
- Read the 1930s chapter in the textbook (end of ch 27 and all of ch 28)
o Identify the terms listed for the 1930s (may need to use textbook at points as well as some
terms are not in the review book or may not be explained thoroughly)
o Answer the Review Questions p. 511-3
o Will not turn in terms because there will be a quiz over the 1930s
 Quiz: A day = Thurs 22nd & B day = Fri 23rd
March
26th – 30th
-extended
adv. 3/28
character
education
Spring Break
Reminders
Activities 1940s:
- Read the 1940s chapter in the Textbook (you are skipping a lot!)
o Identify the terms listed for the 1940s
o Answer the Review Questions for WWII p. 538-9
o Due: A day = Mon 26th & B = Tues 27th
Test DBQ on 1930s (day before spring break A = 30th & B = 29th ) – DON’T BE ABSENT!!
Take home Test over Unit 7
- You may write on the test, you may use your textbook and review book.
- You may NOT use a friend! This is on the honors systems because the goal is to learn and practice
the information and be prepared for the AP Exam! I am trusting you, don’t let me down!
- Due the day you get back to class B = Mon 11th, A = Tues 12th (don’t forget about your DBQ part
4!!)
DBQ part 4 due: 4/10 (A) & 4/11 (B)
- Sample scoring guide sheets on blog under projects!! Look to this for formatting and more specifics
on what to do.
Only 5 weeks after Spring Break till AP Exam!! OMG!!
1920s: Textbook = Ch 26 & 27 Review book = Ch 23
Terms to Master:
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Warren G. Harding
“return to normalcy”
Ohio Gang
Calvin Coolidge
Teapot Dome scandal
Albert Fall
National Origins Act
Scopes Monkey Trail
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Earnest Hemingway
Charles Lindbergh
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Jazz Singer
Babe Ruth
Alfred E. Smith
Henry Ford; Model T
Assembly line
Welfare capitalism
Consumerism
Signmund Freud
Margaret Sanger
Modernism
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Fundamentalism
Gertrude Stein
T.S. Eliot
Lost Generation
Frank Lloyd Wright
Functionalism
Georgia O’Keeffe
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstong
Marcus Garvey
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan (new items)
18th amendment; Volstead Act (1919)
Speakeasies
Tin Pan Alley
Immigration quota laws (1921 & 1924)
Ku Klux Klan
Dawes Plan (1924)
Herbert Hoover
1930s: Textbook = Ch 27 & 28 Review book = Ch 24
Terms to Master:
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Bonus Army
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bank holiday
Glass-Steagall Act
Frances Perkins
“fireside chats”
First 100 days
Unemployment Relief Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal Securities Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
National Recovery Administration
Public Works Administration
20th amendment; “Lame-Duck”
21st amendment
Securities and Exchange Commission
Wheeler- Howard Act
Hoovervilles
Buying on margin
Speculation
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Black Tuesday
Gross National Product
Eleanor Roosevelt
“relief, recovery, and reform”
Bain trust
(FDIC) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Schechter v. US
First New Deal
Court Packing scheme
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
John Maynard Keynes
Scottsboro Case; Norris v. Alabama
Dust Bowl; Okies
John Steinbeck; the Grapes of Wrath
Indian Reorganization Act (Wheeler-Howard Act)
Second New Deal
Wagner Act (1935)
Social Security Act (1935)
American Liberty League
Father Charles Coughlin
Francis Townsend
“share the wealth”
Huey Long
1940s: Textbook = Ch 29 & 30 Review book = Ch 25
Terms to Master:
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Mancuria
Stimson Doctrine
Good-neighbor policy
Soviet Union
Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Nazi party; Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Arsenal of democracy
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Isolationism
Neutrality acts
Spanish Civil War; Francisco Franco
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
Cash and carry
Four freedoms speech
Lend Lease Act 1941
Atlantic charter
Pearl Harbor; Dec. 7th, 1941; “a day which will live in
infamy” speech
Office of Price Administration
Smith v. Allwright
Korematsu v. US
Nisei
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War Relocation Camps; internment camps
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Holocaust
Battle of Midway
Battle of Iwo Jima
Chester Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
“island hopping” or “leapfrogging”
Manhattan Project
Los Alamos
J. Robert Oppenhemier
Hiroshima; Nagaski; Enola Gay
Big Three
V-E Day
V-J Day
Potsdam Conference
Yalta Conference
United Nations
War Production Board
“Rosie the Riveter”
“zoot suit” riots
A. Philip Randolph; March on Washington 1941;
“Double V Campaign”