Study Guide

The Great Depression

  1. Causes of Great Depression
  1. Hegemonic ideology and “guilt”
  1. Divorce rate
  1. Herbert Hoover
  1. Hoovervilles
  1. Bonus March
  1. Election of 1932
  1. Franklin Roosevelt’s pragmatism
  1. John Maynard Keynes
  1. The New Deal
  1. Bank Holiday
  1. Fireside Chats
  1. Relief
  1. Housing legislation
  1. Scottsboro boys
  1. Roosevelt on civil rights
  1. Eleanor Roosevelt
  1. CCC
  1. AAA
  1. Resettlement Administration
  1. TVA
  1. WPA
  1. SSA
  1. Federal Theater Project
  1. Dies committee hearings (HUAC
  1. American writers in 1930s
  1. John Steinbeck
  1. Margaret Mitchell
  1. New Deal critics
  1. Republican charges of waste
  1. Huey Long
  1. Father Coughlin
  1. Charles Townsend
  1. American movies
  1. Orson Wells War of the Worlds
  1. NLRB
  1. ILGWU & David Dubinsky
  2. Flint Sit Down Strike 1937 UWA & CIO
  1. Roosevelt & Latin America
  1. Spanish Civil War
  1. Italy invades Ethiopia
  1. Neutrality Acts
  1. Balance of power
  1. The invasion of Poland
  1. Lend-Lease
  1. Japan’s master plan
  1. American isolationism
  1. Did Roosevelt know about Pearl Harbor?
  1. Pearl Harbor syndrome
  1. MOWM & A.P. Randolph
  1. Double V Campaign
  1. Japanese American internment
  1. U.S. & Soviet Union
  1. “Our gallant Russian allies”
  1. Private Ryan & Private Ivan
  1. Atlantic Charter
  1. Vietminh & O.S.S.
  1. Firebombings
  1. Politics of the bomb
  1. Who won World War II?