Unit 4: The Roosevelt Years
Critical Vocabulary: Dow-Jones Industrial Average, Speculation, Buying on Margin, Black Tuesday, Great Depression, Rugged Individualism, “Hoovervilles,” Bread Lines, Soup Kitchens, Bonus Army, Dust Bowl, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, New Deal, Emergency Banking Act, Fireside Chat, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Securities & Exchange Commission, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Court-Packing Bill, National Labor Relations Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Social Security Act, Works Progress Administration, New Deal Coalition, Deficit Spending, Totalitarianism, Fascism, Nazism, Allied Powers, Axis Powers, Isolationism, America First Committee, Neutrality Acts, Internationalism, “Quarantine” Speech, Cash & Carry Policy, “Arsenal of Democracy," Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor, Battle of the Atlantic, North Africa Campaign, Battle of Stalingrad, Italian Campaign, Normandy Invasion, Battle of the Bulge, Bataan Death March, Doolittle’s Raid, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, Island-Hopping, Battle of Okinawa, Hiroshima, Office of War Information, Selective Training & Service Act, “Double V” Campaign, War Production Board, Zoot Suit Riots, Executive Order 9066
Lesson 1: The Great Depression
We will explain the causes of the Great Depression, & we will describe its effects on ordinary Americans.
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Lesson 2: The New Deal
We will describe the government's response to the Great Depression, & we will evaluate its effects on the nation.
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Lesson 3: World War Looms
We will summarize the origins of World War II, & we can assess the American response to the growing international crisis from 1935-1941.
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Lesson 4: America at War
We will analyze the military strategies the United States & its allies pursued during World War II.
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Lesson 5: The War at Home
We will explain the opportunities & hardships the war created for Americans on the home front.
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