1. Tuesday, January 16, 2010
Agree Disagree 1. The Dust Bowl Agree Disagree
____ ____ was caused by the ____ ____
lack of Swiffer Dusters in houses
in the Midwest.
____ ____ 2. The three R’s ____ _____
in FDR’s reform program
were relief, recovery, and reform.

2. Wednesday, January 17, 2010
Agree Disagree 1. Benito Agree Disagree
____ ____ Mussolini was ____ ____
was the leader of Italy
____ ____ 2. Joseph Stalin ____ _____
began the Nazi party.

3. Thursday, January 18, 2010
Agree Disagree 1. The bombing Agree Disagree
____ ____ of Pearl Harbor ____ ____
is the incident that caused the
United States to become
involved in World War II.
____ ____ 2. Midway is the ____ _____
turning point of the war in
Russia.

4. Friday, January 19, 2010
Agree Disagree 1. The Dust Bowl Agree Disagree
____ ____ was caused by the ____ ____
lack of Swiffer Dusters in houses
in the Midwest.
____ ____ 2. The rationing ____ _____
system limited the use of
certain critical foods and
materials during WWII.

5. AHSGE Chapter 9
The Great Depression and World War II
Causes of the Great Depression
October 29, 1929 – stock market crashed, millions of
dollars were lost, banks closed, workers lost their jobs
and unemployment skyrocketed.
Thisled to a long period of high
unemployment and increased
poverty called the
Great Depression.

6. Collapse of the Farm Economy
During the 1920s and 1930s
farmers produced more food
than consumers need.
Food prices fell and many
farmers declared bankruptcy.
A drought developed between 1933 and 1936.
The soil became very dry. Huge winds blew the
top soil away. Farmers called this experience
and these lands the Dust Bowl. Thousands
moved from the farmland and moved to the
Pacific Coast looking for work.

7. President Hoover’s Administration
 People who were out of
work set up shantytowns
of tents and shacks called
Hoovervilles after then
Republican President
Herbert Hoover.
 A group of WWI veterans wanting their war
bonuses early marched on Washington
demanding payment. They set up shacks near
the White House until they were paid.
Hoover sent in troops to break up the camp.
Soldiers killed four people and the public
blamed Hoover. Democrats won next election.

8. Roosevelt’s New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt became the new
president and instituted a series of federal
policies and programs to boost the economy
and put unemployed people to work. This
legislation is known as The New Deal.
Itwas based on
three R’s:
Relief, Recovery
and Reform.

9. CHUNK #1 The New Deal
Turn to page 124. Graphic Organizer – Pick
three programs from the New Deal, and
answer the following questions for each.
Name of program Explanation of program Who did the program
helped
1.
2.
3.

10. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal
Agricultural Adjustment Act – gave
loans to farmers and government paid farmers not
to grow crops so food
prices would go up.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) – TVA built
hydroelectric dams to
bring affordable (cheap) electric power
to the South including Alabama.
Social Security Act (SSA) – guaranteed pension
plan (retirement income) for all workers
at age 65.

11. Fair Labor Standards Act – raised the minimum
wage, set max for work hours and ended child labor
under age 16.
Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC) – provided
employment for unmarried
men between the ages of 17 and 23.
They worked in the national parks system.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) –
insured depositors up to $100,000 in case of bank
failure. This increased public confidence in banks.
Works Progress Administration – provided
government funded projects to hire the unemployed.

12. Totalitarianism
Totalitarian governments have one
political party or group which maintains
complete control under a dictatorship and
bans all others.
Italy
Benito Mussolini – leader of
Italy whose political ideas
were known as fascism.

13. Japan
Hirohito- Emperor of Japan
In 1931, the Japanese army without
any authority from the Japanese
government invaded the province of
Manchuria. Military leaders then
established their own national cabinet
and dispensed with democracy.

14. Germany
AdolfHitler – Nazi party’s
Fuhrer (leader).
Claimed Aryan race (Caucasian people of non-
Jewish descent) were superior and deserved to
conquer others.
Blamed all of Germany’s problems on the Jews
and those nations that imposed the war
reparations at the Treaty of Versailles.

15. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Joseph Stalin – leader who
believed in Socialism (political
idea where the state was in
charge of everything and
peasant farmers worked on collective farms).
Purged Communist Party and military of anyone
he considered disloyal to him. Between 1.5 million
and 7 million Soviet citizens were arrested and
executed in this purge.

16. Rejection of Peace
Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact –
agreement of 63 countries to promise to
use negotiations rather than war to
resolve political differences except for
cases of self-defense.
Even though Italy, Germany and Japan
signed the Peace Pact they continued to
exert their influence beyond their
borders through war.

17. Countries involved in World War II

18. Japanese Aggression
Invasion of Manchuria and
control of major cities along the
Chinese coast.
Italian Aggression
Mussolini attacked Ethiopia in 1935.
Signed an anti-communist pact with
Germany and Japan thus forming the
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.

19. German Aggression
Hitler moved German troops into the
Rhineland violating the Treaty of Versailles.
France and Britain did nothing because they
did not want another war with Germany.
Hitler
then annexed (added) Austria to
Germany and met no resistance.
Next he annexed the Sudetenland.

20. Europe

21. BritishPrime Minister Neville
Chamberlain and French premier Daladier
hoped to avoid were through a policy of
appeasement (giving into Hitler’s
demands).
Munich Conference – Chamberlain and Daladier
accepted
Hitler’s capture
of Sudetenland in
exchange for his
promise not to claim
any further land in Czechoslovakia.

22. The Invasion of Poland – World War II
Begins
About 6 months after
the Munich Conference,
Hitler invaded the rest
of Czechoslovakia.
August 1939 – Hitler signs a non-
aggression pact with the U.S.S.R. agreeing
to split Poland when they invaded.

23. GreatBritain agreed to aid Poland if
Germany attacked.
September 1, 1939 – Germany invaded
an unsuspecting and unprepared Poland.
Blitzkrieg– (lightening war) used against
Poland. Constant bombardment using
armored tanks and bombers.

24. September 3, 1939 – Great Britain
and France declared war on Germany.
September 17, 1939 – USSR invades
Poland. Poland surrenders three weeks
later.

25. United States Involvement
 Neutrality Act – gave the President
the authority to ban arms sales to
warring nations.
 Ludlow Amendment – required a
national vote before the United
States could declare war. It failed
in Congress by a narrow margin.

26.  Cash and Carry – U.S. allowed the
Allies to buy munitions with payment
up front and required them to
provide their own transportation.
U.S. hoped to maintain neutrality
while helping to defeat Germany.

27.  Lend-Lease Act – gave the President
the authority to lend, sell, or lease war
supplies to countries whose survival was
vital to U.S. defense.
 June 1941 – Hitler betrayed Stalin and
invaded the USSR.
 United States sent large amounts of
supplies to Stalin to prevent German
victory.

28. Problems in Southeast Asia
 French Indochina – Japan established
military bases here in September 1940,
despite strong opposition from the U.S.
 September 26, 1940 – U.S. declared an
embargo on scrap metal, oil and aviation
fuel to Japan.
 September 27, 1940 – Japan announced a
military alliance with Italy and Germany.

29. CHUNK #2 Pearl Harbor
Turn to page 129. Read Pearl Harbor. History
Frame – Answer the following questions
from the passage you have read.
Setting Where and When? –
Characters Who were the key players? –
Plot What happened? –
Outcome What were the results? –

30. Pearl Harbor
 December 7, 1941 – Japanese attacked
Pearl Harbor.
 8 battleships and 13 other Naval vessels
were seriously damaged or destroyed.
 200 warplanes
destroyed.
Over 3000 military
personnel wounded
or killed.

31.  President Roosevelt called December 7th
“a date which will live in infamy.”
 Congress declared
war on Japan.
 Germany and Italy fulfilled their
pledges to Japan and declared war on
the U.S.
 U.S. now involved in World War II.

32. On the Home front
Women’s Participation
 Women made great economic gains because
there was a shortage of labor workers in the
workplace.
 Women left their homes and went to work at
factory jobs vacated by the men who were
fighting the war.
 Rosie the Riveter became
a symbol for all working
women during World War II.

33. Rationing
Rationing System – limited the use of
certain critical foods and materials.
People cold not purchase certain items
without a government-issued coupon. This
was done in order to focus all resources on
the war.
Japanese Internment
 Executive Order 9066 – ordered all
Japanese Americans away
from military facilities out
of fear they were conspiring
with the enemy.

34. Stemming the Tide
 Midway – In June 1942, the U.S. Naval and
air forces inflicted heavy blows on the
Japanese fleet, forcing them to flee.
The Japanese lost four
of their prized aircraft
carriers and 252 planes.
Considered the turning
point in the Pacific.

35. Stalingrad
 Stalingrad – Russian forces held off a
German attack for several months.
 Russians were able to
circle the Germans and
force their surrender.
 Without access to the oil reserves near
Stalingrad, the other German forces
retreated for the Russian interior.
 Considered the turning point in the war for
the USSR.

36. North Africa
 Operation Torch – name given to the
fighting between Britain and the U.S.
against the German army in North
Africa.
 First major victory
of the war for the
Allies.

37. Turning the Tide
Italy
 Due to a successful
invasion of Italy,
Mussolini was overthrown.
 The new Italian
government joined
the Allies in fighting Germany.

38. Normandy
 Operation Overlord – the larges amphibious
(water) assault ever undertaken. Allied troops
landed on the coast of France.
 D-Day – A fleet of 6000 Allied ships launched
the great invasion of the beaches of
Normandy. Allied losses were very high.
After invasion, Allies were
able to liberate Paris from
four years of German occupation.

39. Germany’s defeat
 Allied forces moved in.
 Hitler committed
suicide on
April 30, 1945.
 Germany surrendered unconditionally
one week later.
 V-E Day - Victory in Europe Day. Allied
countries celebrated the victory.

40. The Holocaust
Holocaust – term given to Hitler’s
systematic extermination of over 6
million Jewish people.
 Concentration Camps – Hitler’s camps
that held Jews, Gypsies, and socially
undesirables. These people were
starved and worked to death. Gas
chambers, huge ovens and mass graves
were discovered at these camps.

41. Holocaust

42. The Holocaust
 Auschwitz – One of the worst of all the
concentration camps.
 Nuremberg Trials – Trials held after
the war to prosecute individuals
responsible for the concentration camps
and other various war crimes.

43. Japan’s Defeat
 General Douglas MacArthur –
commander of troops in the
Pacific, who wanted to concentrate all
the United States attack on Japan.
 Kamikaze – Japanese for divine wind.
Pilots who would willingly crash their
planes into Allied naval ships.

44. The Atomic Bomb
 Manhattan Project – Special project that
involved over 120,000 people in 37
factories and laboratories spread across
19 states and Canada. Purpose was to build
an atomic bomb.
Enola Gay – Name of the B-29
bomber that carried the first
atomic bomb to Japan.
 Hiroshima – first Japanese
city to be destroyed by the
atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945.

45.  Nagasaki – the 2nd Japanese
city destroyed by the
atomic bomb three days
later on August 9, 1945.
 In the wake of these disasters and the
Soviet Unions declaration of war, Japan
surrendered to General Douglas
MacArthur on August 14, 1945.
 World War II was over!