UNIT 7

SSUSH17 Analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.

a. Describe the causes, including overproduction, under consumption, and stock market speculation that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.

b. Explain factors (include over-farming and climate) that led to the Dust Bowl and the resulting movement and migration west.

c. Explain the social and political impact of widespread unemployment that resulted in developments such as Hoovervilles.

SSUSH18 Evaluate Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the Great Depression and compare how governmental programs aided those in need.

a. Describe Roosevelt’s attempts at relief, recovery, and reform reflected in various New Deal programs.

b. Explain the passage of the Social Security Act as a part of the second New Deal.

c. Analyze political challenges to Roosevelt’s leadership and New Deal programs.

d. Examine how Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the First Lady including development of New Deal programs to aid those in need.

UNIT 7B: 

AMERICA IN WORLD WAR II 

SSUSH19 Examine the origins, major developments, and the domestic impact of World War II, including the growth of the federal government. 

a. Investigate the origins of U.S. involvement in the war including Lend-lease and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 

b. Examine the Pacific Theater including the difficulties the U.S. faced in delivering weapons, food, and medical supplies to troops, the Battle of Midway, Manhattan Project and the dropping of the atomic bombs. 

c. Examine the European Theater including difficulties the U.S. faced in delivering weapons, food, and medical supplies to troops, D-Day, and the Fall of Berlin. 

d. Investigate the domestic impact of the war including war mobilization, as indicated by rationing, wartime conversion, and the role of women and African Americans or Blacks.

e. Examine Roosevelt’s use of executive powers including the integration of defense industries and the internment of Japanese-Americans.