HIS 315L UNIT 3 STUDY GUIDE

Depression, New Deal, and WWII

HOW TO USE THE STUDY GUIDE

This study guide is designed to help guide your learning for this unit. Use this structure to
generate and organize terms, ideas, questions, and your own key insights from each lesson.

As you read, discover, and learn from your course materials, you should continue to add
information and evidence from each lesson, and to record your responses to each unit question.
By the end of the unit, the work you do in this guide will become a thorough review sheet that
you can use to develop strong and well-supported exam essays.

PART 1: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

Before you start your reading for this unit, take a look at the following questions. These
questions are important, because they are the broad questions that summarize each day’s
lesson. As you read, try to identify information and evidence that can help you answer each
question. When you find key passages, note the page numbers and sources, so that you can
access this information easily later for studying and assessments.

Questions Citation
Directions: Preview these questions before reading. Directions: Note page
numbers and sources
from your readings or
the Crash Course
videos.
How did Franklin Roosevelt attempt to address the Great Depression
conditions that the U.S. faced when he took office?

How effective was the New Deal in addressing the federal

government’s goals?

How did World War II impact civilians on the home front, especially
racial and ethnic minorities?

How did the major military events of World War II impact the U.S. and
the outcome of the war?

Why did Harry Truman make the decision to use the atomic bomb
against Japan?

Why did migration to the U.S., especially from Mexico, change

drastically in the 1930s?

PART 2: INTRODUCTORY TERMS AND IDEAS

To prepare for the beginning of the unit quiz, read and watch all assigned material in
Lesson 1. Write the definition, time period and/or date, and historical significance of each
term in the space provided, and connect each term to a course Big Idea (American
Identities, Reform and Renewal, Self and Society, Labor and Technology, America in the
World). The time period and dates will help you to construct historical chronologies in Part
4 of this guide.

Terms Time Definition and Significance Course

Period Big Idea
and/or
Date(s)
Adolf Hitler German leader of Nazi Party. Rose to power by
promoting racist and national views
Agricultural
Adjustment Act Gave farmers money to reduce crop size to reduce
production and bring up the value of crops

goverment payed farmers to burn their crops to create a

demand
wasted resources when many americans needed food
Allies Britain, France, and Russia- Later joined by Italy and US

Atlantic Charter, Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime

1941 minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as
a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war

sets allie goals to maintain peace after ww2

Axis Powers Germany, Italy, Japan

Benito Mussolini Fascist Dictator of Italy that at first used bullying to gain
power, then never had full power.

Bonus Army and Group of WWI vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to
Bonus Marchers demand the immediate payment of their government
war bonuses in cash
ww1 vetrans walk on washington dc to demand early
cash payment (bonus)
Bracero Program Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on
American farms

under roselvet to bring the hispanics from mexico

because of a shortage of labor during ww2
Chiang Kai-Shek General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. A
(Nationalist) military dictator whose major goal was to crush the
communist movement led by Mao Zedong.

Court Packing Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme
Court to pass his programs.

plan byt rosselvet who had more justices to the us to

supreme court for his ruling in no legistartion
Dorothea Lange Photographer hired to photograph ordinary Americans
experiencing the depressionA system of required military
service
 travels the country taking pictures of poverty and mild
workers
Draft A system of required military service

Dust Bowl A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very
dry.

occurs in the great plains, big dust strom cause of

drought, over use of farm land and depolowing of land
Emergency Banking Provided funds to shore up threatened banking
Act institutions

one of fdrs fist laws declares a national bank holiday and

that government will backup depostits in the bank

Fascism A governmental system led by a dictator having complete

power, and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and
often racism.

Franklin Roosevelt 32nd President of the US during Great Depression and

World War II

Glass-Steagall Act the 1933 law that established the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation to protect individuals' bank
accounts

Harry Truman 33rd President of the United States. Led the U.S. to
victory in WWII making the ultimate decision to use
atomic weapons for the first time.

Hirohito Emperor of Japan during WWII

Hoover’s A concept that envisioned the creation of national

“Associationalism” organizations of businessmen in particular industries.

Hundred Days the special session of Congress that Roosevelt called to

launch his New Deal programs.

Huey Long Political leader from Louisiana who criticized the New
Deal

govenor of lusiana, critic of the new deal, beleives their

shold be more ratical soulitions to get rid of the raticall
poverty
Japanese Japanese and Japanese Americans were placed in camps
Internment beginning in 1942.

excutiive ordrer 9066

has alll japanese americans are put up in camps during
ww2

John Maynard British economist whose theories helped justify New Deal
Keynes deficit spending

Joseph Stalin Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Lend-Lease allows America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war

supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of
the U.S."

lend or lease equipment to allies without actually fight

Manhattan Project code name for the secret United States project set up in
1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II

Mao Zedong Chinese communist leader

(Communist)

National Labor law passed in 1935 that protects American workers from
Relations Act unfair management practices

National Recovery
Act

Neutrality Acts 1939 laws designed to keep the United States out of
future wars

New Deal The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting

the United States out of the depression

thre components
relief short term for people imediate
recovery restore the economy
reform alter programs
Reconstruction Agency established in 1932 to provide emergency relief
Finance to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks.
Corporation
Scottsboro Boys 9 african amerian teenaagers are accuses of raping two
white girls in alabama showed the injustice of all white
joureys against the leagal of all black citizens

Smoot-Hawley
Tariff of 1930 high terrif its effect was reducing over all international
trade.

Social Security Act

Disability, unemployment compensation, Old age pension

Tennessee Valley government provies electricty flood control and jobs to

Authority their

Wagner Act peace of legistartion to protect workers rights to organize

collective bargining and strike

Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

president franklen roselvelt during ww2

harey trumen is after war ends

PART 3: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS AND SIGNIFICANT TERMS

Now it’s your turn! Choose your own key terms based on the lesson questions below, adding
your own definitions, time periods and/or dates, and historical significance, but you will need
more than the spaces provided. Think of these terms as evidence you can use to build strong
historical arguments, which will help you complete your assignments and exams for this course.
At the end of each lesson, write your own summary response to each lesson’s broad question.

Adding rows for more terms: You will need to add more space to each table as you discover
additional key terms. To do this click in the box on the last row of terms, right click, select “Insert”
and “Rows Below.” Add as many as you need for each lesson. You can also attach additional
pieces of paper if you print out your study guide.

Lesson 2: FDR Cartoons

Essential Question: How did Franklin Roosevelt attempt to address the Great Depression
conditions that the U.S. faced when he took office?
Terms Time Definition and Significance Course
Period Big Idea
and/or
Date(s)

Summary Response to Lesson Question:

Lesson 3: FDR and The New Deal

Essential Question: How effective was the New Deal in addressing the federal government’s
goals?
Terms Time Definition and Significance Course
Period Big Idea
and/or
Date(s)

Summary Response to Lesson Question:

Lesson 4: World War II at Home

Essential Question: How did World War II impact civilians on the home front, especially racial
and ethnic minorities?
Terms Time Definition and Significance Course
Period Big Idea
and/or
Date(s)

Summary Response to Lesson Question:

Lesson 5: Fighting World War II

Essential Question: How did the major military events of World War II impact the U.S. and the
outcome of the war?
Terms Time Definition and Significance Course
Period Big Idea
and/or
Date(s)

Summary Response to Lesson Question:

Lesson 6: Truman and the Atomic Bomb

Essential Question: Why did Harry Truman make the decision to use the atomic bomb
against Japan?
Terms Time Definition and Significance Course
Period Big Idea
and/or
Date(s)
 Summary Response to Lesson Question:

Lesson 7 and 8: Mexican Migration in the 1930s

Essential Question: Why did migration to the U.S., especially from Mexico, change drastically
in the 1930s?
Terms Time Definition and Significance Course
Period Big Idea
and/or
Date(s)

Summary Response to Lesson Question:

PART 4: CHRONOLOGY

This is the section of your study guide where you put it all together! Draw a line below (or on a
separate sheet of paper if you need more space) and add the major events, dates, and changes
that you think are important in this unit. You’ll notice that most of the events, terms, and
historical figures in each Unit are connected somehow, whether by causation, geography, course
themes, etc. See if you can find ways to connect your timeline entries together! Making those
connections will is the absolute best way to discover and understand historical relationships,
and to build the knowledge that will help you write great history essays!