Here are your HW assignments for the week of 4/29/2013.
MONDAY NIGHT: DUE WEDNESDAY
1. READ CHAPTER 24 IN THE RED AMSCO TEXTBOOK (pp. 492-511), "The Great Depression, and the New Deal."
2. LISTEN and/or READ TEXT FROM LECTURE 59, and 60- "CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES" , and "The New Deal"
3. REVIEW the OPO ("One Page Outlines"), "The 1920s," and "The Great Depression".
4. COMPLETE the Following Questions Below:
The Jazz Age/The Roaring Twenties
1. In what ways did the policies of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover reverse the successes
of the Progressive Era?
2. What was the effect of the consumer products of the 1920s on social behavior?
3. How did the Harlem Renaissance represent a shift in the role of African-Americans in
society?
4. In the conflict of fundamentalism vs. modernism, what organizations and events
proved that America was not ready for changes in immigration, race relations, and social
change?
The Great Depression and the New Deal
1. What were five causes of the Great Depresson and what were the primary catalysts?
2. How did the homeless and farmers respond to the Great Depression, both passively and
actively?
3. What choices made by Herbert Hoover guaranteed that he would not be reelected in
1932?
4. What choices made by Roosevelt improved the banking situation?
5. How programs did Roosevelt create to deal with massive unemployment?
6. What complaints did both conservatives and liberals have with Roosevelt’s policies?
7. Why did Roosevelt attempt to “pack” the courts and what was the reaction to this
choice
8. Why did America reenter a recession in 1937?
9. To what extent was the New Deal successful? Unsuccessful?
WEDNESDAY: DUE FRIDAY!
Read: Red Book Chapter 25 Pages 518-537 (Diplomacy and World War II, 1929-1945).
Listen: Lectures 61-64
Listen: Lectures 61-64
COMPLETE: Review Questions
1. What steps in the 1920s were made to keep America isolationist and maintain peace?
2. How did America’s foreign policy toward Latin America change in the 1920s and
1930s?
3. What choices were made during Roosevelt’s administration to keep America out of
war?
4. Though America was technically neutral, what choices showed that they truly were
participating in the war?
5. What events led to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
6. How was 1944 a shift in where and how America fought Germany?
7. How did government take more control of America’s economy during the war?
8. In what ways was World War II a “total war” effort?
9. What were the goals of Yalta and Potsdam?
10. Why did America drop the atomic bombs? Why was this choice criticized?
FRIDAY: DUE MONDAY!
READ: Red Book Chapter 26 (Truman and the Cold War) and 27 (The Eisenhower Years)
Listen: Lectures 65-71, and
Review: OPO 25 and OPO 26
Complete: Review Questions
1. What were the two main foreign policy issues facing America following World War II?
2. To what extent were containment, NATO, and the Marshall Plan extensions of the Truman Doctrine?
3. What international and domestic conditions led to the Red Scare?
4. In what ways did Eisenhower’s “New Conservatism” translate to how the federal government dealt with labor relations?
5. During the 1950s in what ways was America taking steps forward toward racial integration?
6. How did MacArthur and Truman differ on the handling of the Korean War?
7. What domestic policies did Eisenhower undertake during the 1950s?
8. What were the various ideologies/policies of the 1950s to handle the spread of Communism?
9. In what ways did America respond to nationalism in Third World nations?
