Unit 3: Boom to Bust (1920-1938)
Unit Overview: The Roaring 20's through the New Deal
This unit covers the end of WWI through the Great Depression. Important themes covered in the unit:
Russian Revolution and Red Scare
Return to Normalcy
The Roaring 20's
Stock Market Crash of 1929
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Rise of Totalitarianism and American Isolationism
Unit Essay: The New Deal
In order to get credit for this project you must an essay on the following topic:
The New Deal: The decade following the end of WWI was one of great prosperity for the United States; This era, dubbed by historians "The Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" was a blur of stock speculation, revolution in music and culture, and a prohibition that was mostly ignored. Unfortunately for Americans and the world, the Roaring Twenties came to an abrupt end with the stock market crash of 1929, and the world plunged into a Great Depression that destroyed economies, lives, and hope. While Herbert Hoover seemed to offer no solution to the Great Depression, in the election of 1932 Franklin Roosevelt promised the Americans a "New Deal" if elected, and he followed through on the promise with a series of programs designed to fight the depression that fundamentally altered the relationship between citizen and state. Using your knowledge of this era, pick three aspects of Roosevelt's New Deal and write an essay of 600 words or more explaining how the New Deal altered the traditional relationship between government and its citizens that had existed prior to the Great Depression.
Here is a list of New Deal programs that you may use and describe in your essay:
List of New Deal Programs. Several programs listed with a very brief description of what it does.
New Deal Agencies. List of New Deal agencies categorized into relief, recovery, and reform
FDR's New Deal. Much longer list of the New Deal programs, but no categorization.
Videos:
The Great Famine
The Century Episode 3: Boom and Bust
The Century Episode 4: Stormy Weather
Lectures/Classes:
The Roaring 20's
The Depression and New Deal
The Rise of Totalitarianism
20th Century History Unit 3 Key Terms
For this project you must define the terms listed below and explain each term's significance to the unit/era being studied. Your definition should be 2-3 sentences long and may be copied and pasted from a source like Wikipedia, but the significance of the term must be in your own words and based on your own understanding. To fill out a term's significance, ask yourself, "Why is this item included in my study of this unit? Why is this term in a history book?" The answer to this question is your term's significance.
Unit 3 Key Terms:
1. Russian Revolution
2. Bolsheviks
3. Joseph Stalin
4. Benito Mussolini
5. Weimar Republic
6. 18th Amendment
7. Jazz Age
8. Scopes Monkey Trial
9. NAACP
10. Great Migration
11. Crash of 1929
12. Hoover-villes
13. Bonus Army
14. Dust Bowl
15. Election of 1932
16. totalitarianism
17. New Deal
18. Emergenccy Banking Relief Act
19. Works Projects Administration
20. Social Security Act
Below is an example of a key term done with the proper format:
William the Conqueror: William I (c. 1028[2] – 9 September 1087), also known as William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant), was the first Norman King of England from Christmas 1066 until his death. He was also Duke of Normandy from 3 July 1035 until his death, under the name William II. Before his conquest of England, he was known as William the Bastard because of the illegitimacy of his birth.To press his claim to the English crown, William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans, Bretons, Flemings, and Frenchmen (from Paris andÎle-de-France) to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest.[3] (I copied and pasted this definition from Wikipedia)
Significance: William the Conqueror is significant because his conquest of England created the first nation state in Europe. His rearrangement of English feudal territories to give himself dramatically more power than the the barons and nobles around him caused him to be the most powerful monarch in Europe and eventually led to the rise of other nation states over the next few centuries. (These are my words based on my knowledge of English and European history.)