Ch 31-2

Group Discussions

What do you think President Franklin D Roosevelt meant when he said that the only thing the u.s. have to fear is fear itself?

Drawing conclusions: What role did fear play in causing and prolonging the Great Depression? Think about the stock market crash, customer Bank withdrawals, and overseas dependents on American Aid.

Standards:

I-C.7 Analyze and evaluate the causes, events and effects of World War I.

Objective:

Describe the impact of World War I on post-war Europe.

Identify the problems faced by the Weimar Republic.

Trace the events that led to the financial collapse of the US economy.

Analyze the worldwide effects of the Great Depression.

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

EQ: What do you think President Franklin D. Roosevelt meant when he said that the only thing the United States had to fear was fear itself?

Post-war Europe

Unstable new democracies

The Weimar Republic

Inflation causes crisis in Germany

Attempts at economic stability

Efforts at a lasting peace

Financial collapse

A flawed US economy

The stock market crashes

The Great Depression

A global depression

Effects throughout the world

The world confronts the crisis

Britain take steps to improve its economy

France response to economy crisis

Socialist governments find Solutions

Recovery in the United States

Vocabulary:

Coalition Government

temporary alliance of several political parties

Weimar republic

Government of Germany after World War l

Great Depression

Severe economic downturn that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President of the United States during the depression

New Deal

Roosevelt's program for creating jobs and improving the American economy