World War II

Thursday, 4/10; Read Chapter 35

1.  How and why did the United States go from isolationism and neutrality to involvement in the war?

2.      What were the turning points of the war?

3.      How did the war affect African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Japanese Americans, and Jews?

4.      How did the war change the lives and roles of women?

5.      How did the war change the labor movement?

6.      How did the war effect the economy, society, and government?

7.      How did WWII create the Cold War?

 

Know the significance of the following:

PreWar

Nye Commission; Good neighbor policy; Neutrality acts; Spanish Civil War; Manchuria; Munich Pact; Sudatenland; Nazi-Soviet Pact; Czechslovokia; Kristallnacht

Mobilization

War Production Board; National War Labor Board; Office of Price Administration; Manhattan Project; Office of War Information

Race

Congress of Racial Equality; Fair Employment Practices Commission; A.    Philip Randolph; Double V Campaign; Holocaust; Japanese Internment; Zoot Suit Riots

The War

Axis; Invasion of Poland; Invasion of France; Battle of Britain; blitzkrieg; Lend-Lease Act; Pearl Harbor; Stalingrad; D-Day; Battle of the Bulge; Midway; island hopping; Battle of the Coral Sea; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Emperor Hirohito; General Tojo; General Dwight Eisenhower; General Douglas McArthur

Diplomacy

Atlantic Charter; Yalta; Potsdam

Great Depression and the New Deal

Thursday. 4/3: Read 770-780
Friday. 4/4: Read 780-792
Monday, 4/7: Read 792-799
Tuesday, 4/8: Read 800-820

Big Questions
1. What factors and events caused the Great Depression?
2. Why was FDR such a successful politician? Why was Hoover a failure?
3. Describe the differences between the First, Second, and Third New Deals.
4. Describe the new Democratic coalition created by FDR?
5. How did the war New Deal affect the labor movement?
6. How did the New Deal change government?
7. Why did the FDR’s “court-packing” scheme fail?
8. How did the New Deal affect African Americans?
9. What is Keynesian economics?

Know the significance of the following:

New Deal Programs: Emergency Banking Relief Act; Glass-Steagall Act.; Civilian Conservation Act; National Industrial Recovery Act; National Recovery Administration; Agricultural Adjustment Act; Soil Conservation Act; Farm Credit Administration; Tennessee Valley Authority; Rural Electrification Administration; Truth in Securities Act; Public Works Administration; Works Progress Administration; Resettlement Administration

Economics: Roosevelt Recession; Francis Keynes

Labor: Section 7a of NIRA; Wagner Act; National Labor Relations Board; AFL; CIO; John L. Lewis; Trade union; Industrial Union; UAW; Walter Ruether; Sit-down strike; Fair Labor Standards Act; National Housing Act

Politics: FDR; Frances Perkins; Harold Ickes; Al Smith; Herbert Hoover; Fr. Coughlin; Dr. Townsend; Huey Long; Court-packing scheme; Alf Landon

The 1920s

Friday, 3/28: Read Chapter 31, American Life in the Roaring 20s
 Monday 3/31: Read Chapter 32 The Politics of Boom and Bust

1. Why was there great and prolonged prosperity throughout the 1920s?
2. How had the economy changed?
3. What happened to the labor movement?
4. What happened to the women’s movement?
5. What were the prevailing political moods, policies, and issues of the 1920s?
6. How did consumerism and “mass culture” affect American culture?
7. What new entertainments emerged during the 1920s?
8. What were the prominent developments and authors in literature?
9. Was this a period of increasing personal freedom and liberty, or of social control and oppression?

Know the significance of the following: open shop; welfare capitalism; National Association of Manufacturers; Henry Ford; Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Smoot-Hawley Tariff; Teapot Dome; Kellog-Briand Pact Herbert Hoover; “rugged individualism”; Al Smith; jazz; Jelly Roll Morton; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; the Charleston; George Gershwin; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; Sinclair Lewis; T.S. Eliot; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hart Benton; Edward Hopper; Georgia O’Keefe; Alfred Steiglist; Social Conflicts; Red Scare; National Origins Act; Ku Klux Klan; Great Migration; Harlem Renaissance; Marcus Garvey; Scopes Trial; 18th Amendment; Volstead Act; Margaret Sanger

World War I

Major Questions:• Why did the United States finally get involved in a European war when we had resisted them for so long?
• How did our involvement in World War I change the United States at that time?
• Did it in any way change us permanently?

Monday, 3/24; The Road to War: Read pages 688-694.
1. What factors caused the war?
2. How did the U.S. government and public respond to the war?
3. What challenges were there to the U.S. remaining neutral? Were we ever really neutral?
4. Why did the U.S. enter the war? Why did we enter on the side of Britain and France? 

Tues, 3/25; The War and American Society: Read 696-710.
1. How did the U.S. raise an army?
2. What did the federal government do to supply the troops with the proper material and food? What long-term effect might this have had?
3. How did the war affect the economy?
4. What effect did U.S. troops have on the war? What effect did the war have on American soldiers?
5. What did the government do to get Americans to support the war?
6. Who opposed the war? What happened to those who opposed the war? Why? Was the government responsible?

Wed, 3/26; The Search for a New World Order: Read 710-719 and handouts
1. What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points generally aiming at doing? Was this a new idea? Was it a good idea?
2. Why did Wilson fail to get his Fourteen Points into the Treaty of Versailles?
3. Was the League of Nations a good idea? Why did the Senate reject it? Was it the Senate’s fault, or Wilson’s?

Explain the significance of the following:
Lusitannia; Sussex; Jane Addams; George Creel; General John Pershing; Eugene V. Debs; Bernard Baruch; Herbert Hoover; Zimmermann note; Selective Service Act; Committee on Public ; Information; Espionage and Sedition Acts; Industrial Workers of the World ; “Wobblies”; War Information Board; War Industries Board; National War Labor Board; Sixteenth Amendment; Eighteenth Amendment; Nineteenth Amendment; Food Administration; Russian Revolution; Bolshevism; Big Four; Henry Cabot Lodge; collective security; Irreconcilables; Reservationists; Fourteen Points; self-determination; Treaty of Versailles; Article 10; League of Nations.

American Imperialism?

Tuesday 3/11: Stirrings of Imperialism: Read 626-630
1. Why did the United States begin to expand overseas?
2. Was this a change from earlier American foreign policy?
3. How and why did the United States acquire Hawaii? Why did Cleveland oppose the annexation?

 Wednesday 3/12: War With Spain & The Republic as Empire: Read 630-647
1. What effect did the Platt Amendment have on Cuba and its relationship to the United States?
2. Why did the United States declare war on Spain? Was it for selfish or selfless reasons?
3. Why did we invade the Philippines?
4. Why did the United States hold onto the Philippines? Was this the right thing to do?
5. Did the United States become an imperialist power as a result of the Spanish-American War?

 Thursday 3/13: The Republic as Empire: Read 636-653; 675-676; 685-688
1. What were the results of the Philippine War for the Philippines and America?
2. Explain the arguments of the Anti-Imperialist League.
3. What was the Open Door in China? Why did the United States call for it? Was it successful?
4. Explain the Roosevelt Corollary? How did it relate to the Monroe Doctrine? Was it good for the United States? Was it good for Latin America?
5. How did the United States gain the Panama Canal? Was this just? Why was it so important to the United States?
6. How was Dollar Diplomacy different from Roosevelt’s policies? How was it the same?
7. How was Wilson’s policy towards Latin America different? How was it the same?
8. What was the overall affect of these three presidents’ policies towards Latin America? Does it have any affect on today? Were these policies wise? Were they moral?


Know the significance of the following: The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan; Frederck Jackson Turner and his “Frontier Thesis”; Samoa; Hawaii; Queen Liliuokalani; Spanish-American War; William McKinley; William Randolph Hearst; yellow journalism; U.S.S. Maine ; Teller Amendment; Admiral Dewey; Battle of San Juan Hill; Platt Amendment; Philippines; Anti-Imperialist League; Theodore Roosevelt; Open Door; John Hay; Panama Canal; Roosevelt Corollary; Gunboat Diplomacy; “Speak Softly, but Carry a Big Stick”; “Great White Fleet”; William Howard Taft; Dollar Diplomacy; Woodrow Wilson; Pancho Villa

The Progressive Movement

Wednesday 3/3; The Muckrakers and the Beginnings of Progressivism; Read pages 654-664. 

1. In the views of the progressives, what was wrong with America, and what did they propose to fix it?

2. Were their views revolutionary?

3. Progressivism is generally viewed by most historians as a positive movement in American politics.  Were their any negative sides to progressivism?

Thursday 3/4; Roosevelt and Progressivism in the Presidency; Read pages 665-678.

Write an outline for an essay that would answer the question, "Does Teddy Roosevelt belong on Mount Rushmore?" In your answer be sure to address both domestic and foreign policy. Your answer should an outline of an essay and may be in "bulleted" form. It should start with a thesis that addresses both domestic and foreign policy. You must present specific evidence to support your evidence.

Friday 3/5  Woodrow Wilson's Progressive Domestic Program; Read pages 579-585 in preparation for tomorrow's Wilson vs. Roosevelt debate.  the debate will center on the areas of:
1. Regulation of Big Business
2. Finance, Tax and Tariffs
3. Race
4. The Environment
5. Labor

Know the significance of the following:

Muckrakers; McClure’s; Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives; Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities; Ida Tarbell; Upton Sinclair, The Jungle; Triangle Waistshirt Factory fire; Social Gospel; Jane Adams; Hull House; Eugene V. Debs; Socialist Party; Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W. or “wobblies); commission plan; city manager; initiative; referendum; recall; direct primary; Robert LaFollette; Margaret Sanger; 16th Amendment; 17th Amendment; 18th Amendment; Theodore Roosevelt; Square Deal; Northern Securities Act; Hepburn Act; Meat Inspection Act; Pure Food and Drug Act; New Nationalism; Bull Moose Party; Conservation; John Muir; Gifford Pinchot; Forest Reserve Act; William Howard Taft; Ballinger-Pinchot incident; Payne-Aldrich Tarif; Mann-Elkins Act; Woodrow Wilson; New Freedom; Louis Brandeis; Underwood-Simmons Tariff; Federal Reserve Act; Federal Trade Commission; Clayton Antitrust Act; Workman’s Compensation

TEST ON MONDAY AS PLANNED

Gentlemen,
I will not be in school on Monday.  Our test will proceed as planned.  It will be one essay question from the last three topics we have studied: The Trans-Mississippi West, Industrialization and Urbanization, and Gilded Age Politics.  There will be no multiple choice.  You may bring one page of loose-leaf (front and back) with notes written in your hand - not typed - to use during the test.  I would suggest looking through the study guides in this blog to help guide your study towards the biggest issues that might be an essay question.
Mr. Sweeney