US History/Michelena
1930s and the Great Depression Exam Review
q 21st Amendment
q Was there a balanced budget in the 1930s?
q By the end of the 1930s, had farm conditions improved? Was confidence restored in the banking system? Was there a reduction in unemployment?
q The Wagner Act
q Public Works Administration
q Works Progress Administration
q Tennessee Valley Authority
q Emergency Banking Relief Act
q Civilian Conservation Corps
q Huey Long
q What was the purpose of the Securities and Exchange Commission?
q What was the purpose of the FDIC?
q What has been the legacy of the New Deal?
q Why did Hoover keep saying, “Prosperity is just around the corner?”
q What did Hoover do to combat problems of the Great Depression?
q Why was FDR elected?
q What was the “Bonus Army”?
q What was Hoover’s reaction to the Bonus Army?
q How did the Great Depression come to an end?
q FDR or Hoover: New Deal, “Prosperity is just around the corner!” married to Eleanor, Bonus Army, entered WII, polio, engineer, head of Food Administration during WWI, shantytowns named after him, “Our government is responsible fore nation’s economic well-being.” “The best way to economic recovery is to subsidize industry so that it will hire more workers and expand production.”
q Republican, Democrat viewpoints of how to fix the problems of the Great Depression
q Difference between a liberal, conservative, socialist
q What did FDR to help out the farmers affected by the Dust Bowl?
q Why were “escapist” novels and movies popular during the Great Depression?
q What happened to labor unions during the Great Depression?
q Why were the programs of the New Deal criticized?
q National Industrial Recovery Act
q National Labor Relations Act
q Games and sports of the 1930s
q Jesse Owen; 1936 Berlin Olympics
q Munich Agreement; Neville Chamberlain; Appeasement
q The Second World War began when Hitler invaded what country?
q The Night of the Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)
q Totalitarianism, fascism, propaganda, appeasement
q Bonnie & Clyde
q John Dillinger
q Grant Wood
q Amos & Andy
