What should I study? Great Depression/New Deal

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What should I study?
Great Depression/New Deal/1930s (Chapters 14 & 15)
• Causes of the Depression
• Hoover’s Handling of the Depression
• Dust Bowl
• New Deal Programs (3Rs)
• Second New Deal
• Reaction to New Deal
• Pop Culture of 1930s
World War II/1940s (Chapters 16 & 17)
• WW II in Europe & America prior to entering the war
• Pearl Harbor, America’s entry into WW II
• Contribution of African Ams/Women/Native Ams/Mex Ams to war
• Homefront (Rationing, Race Riots & Japanese-Am internment)
• Conferences/plan to end the war
• Manhattan Project & A-Bomb
Late 40s/1950s (Chapters 18 & 19)
• Origins of the Cold War & UN
• 1940s-1950s Cold War Battles (Berlin, China, Korea, Containment)
• Truman Adm in late 40s (Civ Rights, GATT, Suburbs, Taft-Hartley)
• Eisenhower Cold War (MAD, Space Race, CIA, Suez, Vietnam)
• Pop Culture of 1950s (Music, TV, teenagers)
• Life in 1950s (Automania, Baby Boom, Red Scare, Economy)
• The “Other” America
• 1950s Civil Rights
Good Luck! – Know your political cartoons & eras!!
Reverse IDs:Dust Bowl, New Deal, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Douglas
MacArthur, Manhattan Project, Pearl Harbor, Iron Curtain Speech,
Mutual Assured Destruction, Elvis Presley, Truman Doctrine,
Korean War, Joseph McCarthy, Emmett Till, Domino theory
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