World War I and Great Depression (SS8H8)

SS8H8 Analyze Georgia’s participation in important events that occurred from World War I through the Great Depression.

1. Describe Georgia’s contributions to World War I.

2. Explain economic factors that resulted in the Great Depression. (e.g., boll weevil and drought).

3. Describe Eugene Talmadge’s opposition to the New Deal Programs.

4. Discuss President Roosevelt’s ties to Georgia, including his visits to Warm Springs and his impact on the state.

5. Examine the effects of the New Deal in terms of the impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Rural Electrification Administration, and Social Security Administration.

Suggested Collections 

• The 1936 Gainesville Tornado: Disaster and Recovery (Hall County Library System)

• Gay Bolling Shepperson Photograph Collection, 1933-1945 (bulk 1935-1937)  (Atlanta History Center)

• Henry A. Hunt Letters, 1931 (Middle Georgia Archives)

• Selections from the Records of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, 1924-1974 (Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Campus)

• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in Georgia  (Hargrett Library) 

• Works Progress Administration of Georgia Atlanta Maps (Georgia State University) 

Suggested Searches

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Boll weevil 

• Bank failures

• Civilian Conservation Corps 

• County unit system

• Drought 

• Dust bowl

• Great Depression 

• New Deal 

• President Franklin Roosevelt 

• Rural Electrification Administration 

• Social Security Administration 

• Eugene Talmadge 

• Warm Springs 

• World War I 

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• African American Soldiers in World War I 

• America during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic 

• America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal 

• Negro League Baseball

• The New Deal 

• Patriotic Labor: America during World War I 

• Roosevelt's Tree Army: The Civilian Conservation Corps 

• Women and the Blues 

• Women's Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment 

• World War I: America Heads to War

Historic Newspapers

• Georgia Historic Newspapers, 1914-1938

• Chronicling America, 1914-1938 (newspapers from throughout the United States) 

  • World War I Armistice in Chronicling America

  • World War I Declarations in Chronicling America

  • World War I Draft in Chronicling America

  • World War I Poetry in Chronicling America

  • World War I Tanks in Chronicling America

  • World War I, American Red Cross in Chronicling America

  • World War I, Christmas Truce in Chronicling America

NGE Articles

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

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