AP U.S. History HERRICK Unit X: Age of FDR

Ch. 34-36 INSTRUCTIONS: Use the following essential questions and vocab terms to guide your Cornell Notes. Your notes must be handwritten in blue or black ink (failure to write in ink will result in an automatic deduction of 5 points per assignment), need to cover the entire chapter, and be sure to include vocabulary terms (failure to do so will result in a point deduction). Only thorough, complete work deserves full credit. Each set of notes is due the day of the chapter quiz unless otherwise noted. Quiz dates will be posted ahead of time in class. Ask Mrs. Herrick if you have any questions. Ch. 34: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939 1. Who was FDR? 2. What did FDR do to combat against the depression soon after his inauguration? Explain his plan of relief, recovery, and reform (the 3 R’s). 3. Examine FDR’s efforts in: a. the banking system b. tackling unemployment c. industry and labor d. agriculture/farming 4. Describe the Dust Bowl. What efforts were made to help those impacted? 5. Why was the TVA established? What did it accomplish? 6. How was FDR’s plan for the Nine Old Men “one of the most costly political misjudgments of his career?” 7. How successful was FDR’s New Deal in stimulating the economy? What were the arguments for and against the New Deal? Vocabulary 1) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 16) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 2) Eleanor Roosevelt 17) Social Security 3) New Deal 18) Wagner Act of 1935 4) “Hundred Days” Congress 19) John Maynard Keynes (“Keynesianism”) 5) Emergency Banking Relief Act 6) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) 7) Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) 8) Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) 9) Civil Works Administration (CWA) 10) Senator Huey Long (“Share Our Wealth”) 11) Works Project Administration (WPA) 12) National Recovery Administration (NRA) 13) Francis Perkins 14) The Dust Bowl 15) John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath Ch. 35: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941 1. Describe U.S. isolationist tendencies in the 1930s. 2. What was the Good Neighbor Policy? How was it put into action? 3. What was the purpose of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act? How did they work? 4. What caused the U.S. to drift further into isolationism? 5. What did the Neutrality Acts try to prevent? (relate to what pushed the U.S. into WWI) 6. Summarize the early events of WWII, focusing on Hitler’s advance throughout Europe. 7. Indicate what FDR and the U.S. did to gradually get the U.S. more and more involved in WWII between 1939-1941. (pages 817-825) 8. According to the textbook, why did FDR break the two-term tradition in 1940? 9. Why did the Japanese attack the U.S. at Pearl Harbor? What did this lead to?

Vocabulary: 1. London Economic Conference 2. Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 3. Totalitarianism 4. Joseph Stalin 5. Benito Mussolini 6. Adolf Hitler 7. Rome-Berlin Axis 8. Johnson Debt Default Act 9. General Francisco Franco 10. Appeasement (give examples as to how European powers appeased Hitler in the 1930s) 11. Nazi-Soviet Pact 12. Battle of Britain 13. Wendell L. Willkie 14. Lend-Lease Bill 15. Winston Churchill 16. Atlantic Charter Ch. 36: America in World War II, 1941-1945 1. Describe the gaps left in the labor force during WWII and explain what was done to fix it. What role did women play? How long lasting were the changes? 2. Discuss the changes that occurred among African Americans and Native Americans communities during and after WWII. Make sure to look at their involvement in the war itself, migration patterns, advancements in labor, etc. 3. What was the economic status of most Americans during WWII? What role did the government play? How did “war, not enlightened social policy” cure the Great Depression? 4. Describe the course of the war in the Pacific (may be bulleted points). 5. Describe the course of the war in the Atlantic, Europe, and Africa (may be bulleted points). 6. Who were the candidates and what were the issues in the election of 1944? 7. What events led up to V-E Day? 8. What events led up to V-J Day? (include a discussion as to why the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs) Vocabulary: 1. Korematsu v. U.S. 2. War Production Board 3. Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act 4. Bracero Program 5. Rosie the Riveter 6. “Tuskegee Airmen” 7. “code talkers” 8. General Douglas MacArthur 9. Midway Island 10. Marshal Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox” 11. General Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower 12. “D-Day” 13. Harry S. Truman 14. V-E Day 15. Kamikazes 16. Potsdam Conference 17. V-J Day