AICE History Unit 4 Major Themes

AICE History Unit 4 Major Themes

The Great Depression & the New Deal

Guiding Questions:

1. How great was the impact of the Great Crash and the Great Depression on the USA?
2. Economic developments in the 1930s
3. Developments in US society
4. Political change in the 1930s - Realignment and rise of the New Deal coalition of Democrats
5. The USA in the 1920s

1. How effective were the strategies used by Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to deal with the domestic problems facing the USA in the 1930s?
2. The economic and social policies of Herbert Hoover
3. The 100 Days & the First New Deal
4. The Second New Deal
5. Franklin Roosevelt’s political strategies

Unit Vocabulary:

1. How effective was the opposition to the New Deal?
2. The liberal Left
3. The conservative Right
4. The Supreme Court

1. Based on his leadership of the USA in the 1930s, how far does Franklin Roosevelt deserve his reputation as one of the great US presidents?
2. The case for: durable change
3. The case against: limited economic impact, challenge to US values
4. The historical debate

The Great Crash

Dow Jones Index

Federal Reserve Bank

Great Depression

“Boom” & “Bust”

Black Tuesday

Buying on margin

Deflation

Herbert Hoover

Rugged Individualism

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Relief & Reconstruction Act

Bonus Army

Hoovervilles

20th Amendment

Franklin D Roosevelt

The New Deal

Three Rs

Brain Trust

Frances Perkins

The 100 Days

Bank Holiday

Fireside chats

Emergency Banking Act

FDIC

HOLC

FCA

FERA

PWA

CCC

TVA

NRA

AAA

CWA

SEC

Second New Deal

WPA

Wagner Act

REA

Social Security

Wealth Tax

Election of 1936

American Liberty League

Charles Coughlin

Dr. Francis Townsend

Huey Long

Schechter Poultry v. US

Court Packing Scheme

C.I.O

John Lewis

UAW strike

Fair Labor Standards Act

Keynesian Economics

“Priming the pump”

Dust Bowl

The Grapes of Wrath

Marian Anderson

Eleanor Roosevelt

FEPC

Indian Reorganization Act

AICE History Unit 4 & AICE Exams Calendar

13 / 14 Unit 4 Intro: Crash & Change
Paper 1 Work / 15 / 16*
Intercession / 17*
Intercession
20 Spring Break / 21 Spring Break / 22 Spring Break / 23 Spring Break / 24 Spring Break
27
Planning / 28 Great Depression: Political Change – Election of 1932 / 29 / 30 Election of 1932 - Hoover vs. FDR & The New Deal
Vocab Quiz 1 / 31
April 3
The New Deal
Mid-Unit 4 Quiz / 4
**After School Review Paper 1 / 5 2nd New Deal; FDR & Political Strategy / 6 / 7
Opposition to the New Deal: Left & Right
Vocab Quiz 2
10 / 11 Opposition to the New Deal: FDR & The Supreme Court / 12
**After School Review Paper 1 / 13
Evaluating FDR & The New Deal / 14
Spring Holiday
17 / 18
Evaluating FDR & The New Deal / 19
ACT Day
*After School Review / 20
Unit 4 Assessment / 21
24
Paper 1 Review
AICE Marine Science / 25
AICE Marine Science / 26
Paper 1 Review / 27 / 28
Paper 1 Review
2
May 1 AICE History Paper 1
General Paper / 3
AICE Math / 4
Paper 2 Review / 5
AICE Thinking Skills
AICE Lang
8 AICE History Paper 2
AICE Lang / 9
AICE Psychology / 10 / 11
AICE GPR / 12
AICE Lit
15 / 16 AICE Psychology / 17 / 18 AICE Math / 19 AICE Lit
22 Exams / 23 Exams / 24 Exams / 25Exams / 26 AICE Thinking Skills
29 / 30 AICE Environmental / 31 AICE Environmental
AICE Music / June 1 / 2

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