Outlines: 4.1.pdf 4.2.pdf 4.3.pdf 4.4.pdf
Resources:
Textbook Chapter pdfs
9 The Great Depression Begins (for background, but the first HW is on Ch. 10 below)
10 Roosevelt & the New Deal 11 A World in Flames (WWII Pre-US Entry) 12 The US & WWII 13 The Cold War (Begins)
Projects/Assignments:
My slideshow on outlines. Model Outlines: 1. School Reform 2. HW is evil
Views of the New Deal Project:
Document A: Higgs Document B: Zinn Document C: Lipset & Marks Document D: Woolner
New Deal Essay Qs and rubric . Remove the questions, but not the rubric before turning in.
The New Deal:
FDR videos shown in class: excerpts from FDR. Directed by David Grubin, PBS American Experience, 2008.
There is a website for the film with some clips and a full transcript here.
FDR 1, FDR 2, FDR 3, FDR and the beginning of WWII
Crash Course #33: The Great Depression
Crash Course #34: The New Deal
Herbert Hoover New Yorker article (long, full point EC)
New Deal Programs by category: relief-recovery-reform.pdf
Overview of New Deal Historiography (what different historians have thought)
The Living New Deal (interactive map of New Deal Projects across the US)
Video: the Radio Priest about Father Coughlin 1 hr, E/C
Good article about the New Deal and taxes on the rich
Good article about African-Americans and the New Deal
World War II:
WWII documentary shown in class ("The War" by Ken Burnes) : segment 1, segment 2, segment 3, segment 4, segment 5, segment 6, segment 7, segment 8.
Crash Course#35: World War II part 1
Crash Course#36: World War II part 2
The Fallen: video about the numbers who died in WWII
I Paid My Income Tax Today (video of the song, be sure to sing along!)
WWII from space (85m History Channel video on Youtube, extra credit) If the link doesn’t work search by the title on Youtube.
US General George Patton’s Speech (very funny)
History through Facebook (humor for your generation): Great Depression, World War II
World Wars Food Fight (video: this is very funny and no, we can’t re-enact this in class)
Obituary of the only Japanese soldier to bomb the mainland US
Obituary of last of the Tuskegee airmen
How Black US soldiers were treated better abroad, NPR 2022
How Hollywood got to work during WWII, NPR 2017