Great Depression, New Deal, FDR Reforms, Supreme Court Challenges,
Roosevelt Recession, Labor Movements, CIO Strikes, Isolationism, Kellogg-
Briand Treaty, Good Neighbor Policy, Neutrality Acts, WWII European & Pacific
Campaigns, Pearl Harbor, Lend-Lease, Normandy Invasion, Atomic Bomb, Yalta
Conference, Cold War Origins, Containment Policy, Truman Doctrine, Marshall
Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO Formation, Korean War, McCarthyism, Fair Deal,
Postwar Prosperity, Suburbanization, Civil Rights Movement, Brown v. Board,
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts, Black Power Unit 3
Exam Questions Verified and Provided with Complete A+ Graded Rationales
Latest Updated 2026
explain how the depression & the new deal impacted women and minorities (L9/O11)
*little progress for rights: feminism declined and racial prejudice intensified.
*minorities benefitted less from New Deal programs.
*Mexican Americans faced growing hostility, and 20% left
*Scottsboro boys"
*Eleanor Roosevelt was most eloquent champion of civil rights & women's rights
*FDR appointed minorities to high level position in fed gov.
Summarize FDR's fight with the Supreme Court. (L9/O12)
"court-packing plan" Proposal to add more justices to Supreme Court failed. This 1st major defeat for
FDR strengthened his enemies. was the beginning of the decline of the New Deal.
explain the Roosevelt Recession and the decline of the New Deal(L9/O13)
*Southern Dems abandoned FDR & voted with Republicans to stop further reform.
*Economic downturn in 1937/38 was boost to opponents of New Deal. concerned about growing debt,
FDR briefly reduced government spending, causing unemployment to increase from about 7 mill to 10
mill.
,*Republicans gained seats in Congressional elections and no additional reforms passed
describe the impact of the depression on the labor movement and identify goals of the CIO. (L9/O10)
*strikes & labor unrest on the rise by mid 1930s
*John Lewis left AFL and formed Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1936, he unionized auto,
steel, textile, electrical workers
*CIO became largest union & promoted economic freedom, industrial democracy, and cultural freedom
*** CIO won concessions from GM after sit-down strike in 1937
*10 workers were shot & killed by police in Chicago during the Little Steel Strike/Memorial Day
Massacre
US foreign policy in 1920s & Kellogg-Briand Treaty (L10/O1)
*independent internationalism
*US promoted trade and peace, but refused to play global leadership role
*Kellogg-Briand Treaty, 1928 = U.S. proposed treaty to outlaw war and invited other countries to join.
Almost all eventually signed but it really meant nothing
Clark Memorandum & "Good Neighbor Policy" (L10/O2)
*Clark Memorandum issued in 1930 said that we are dropping the Roosevelt Corollary from Monroe
Doctrine, there is no right to intervene in Latin America.
*FDR strengthened this approach and called it "good neighbor" policy
*US signed pledge of nonintervention in 1933 at Pan-American conference.
Examine American isolationism during the 1930s and discuss the Nye Committee hearings. (L10/O3)
*Great Depression & WWI experience strengthened desire for noninvolvement
, *NYE Committee in US Senate investigated munitions industry & blamed "merchants of death" for
dragging US into WWI
*Congress passed Neutrality Acts to keep US out of wars:
1935- no US arms sales to belligerents (countries at war)
1936- banned US loans to belligerents
1937- created cash & carry regulations for all non-military trade
identity the aggressor nations & describe the developments in Europe and Asia that led to WWII.
(L10/O4)
Nazi Germany under Hitler,
Fascist Italy under Mussolini,
Imperial Japan under Hirohito/Tojo
Hitler moved toward conquest: domestically, then Austria, then Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia,
explain how the crash aggravated the weaknesses of the economy & triggered the Great Depression
(L9/O1)
*agriculture crisis thru 20s, older industries declining, big business=unequal distribution of wealth,
consumer good market saturated.
*unequal wages=bottom half not consumers
*orgy of mad speculation, "margin buying" prob on wall street
*business & consumer confidence fell, dried up spending
*banks & businesses failed
*unprecedented unemployment peaked at 25%
*greatest challenges= overproduction - underconsumption
describe the impact of the depression on the American people (L9/O2)
Roosevelt Recession, Labor Movements, CIO Strikes, Isolationism, Kellogg-
Briand Treaty, Good Neighbor Policy, Neutrality Acts, WWII European & Pacific
Campaigns, Pearl Harbor, Lend-Lease, Normandy Invasion, Atomic Bomb, Yalta
Conference, Cold War Origins, Containment Policy, Truman Doctrine, Marshall
Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO Formation, Korean War, McCarthyism, Fair Deal,
Postwar Prosperity, Suburbanization, Civil Rights Movement, Brown v. Board,
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Civil Rights & Voting Rights Acts, Black Power Unit 3
Exam Questions Verified and Provided with Complete A+ Graded Rationales
Latest Updated 2026
explain how the depression & the new deal impacted women and minorities (L9/O11)
*little progress for rights: feminism declined and racial prejudice intensified.
*minorities benefitted less from New Deal programs.
*Mexican Americans faced growing hostility, and 20% left
*Scottsboro boys"
*Eleanor Roosevelt was most eloquent champion of civil rights & women's rights
*FDR appointed minorities to high level position in fed gov.
Summarize FDR's fight with the Supreme Court. (L9/O12)
"court-packing plan" Proposal to add more justices to Supreme Court failed. This 1st major defeat for
FDR strengthened his enemies. was the beginning of the decline of the New Deal.
explain the Roosevelt Recession and the decline of the New Deal(L9/O13)
*Southern Dems abandoned FDR & voted with Republicans to stop further reform.
*Economic downturn in 1937/38 was boost to opponents of New Deal. concerned about growing debt,
FDR briefly reduced government spending, causing unemployment to increase from about 7 mill to 10
mill.
,*Republicans gained seats in Congressional elections and no additional reforms passed
describe the impact of the depression on the labor movement and identify goals of the CIO. (L9/O10)
*strikes & labor unrest on the rise by mid 1930s
*John Lewis left AFL and formed Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1936, he unionized auto,
steel, textile, electrical workers
*CIO became largest union & promoted economic freedom, industrial democracy, and cultural freedom
*** CIO won concessions from GM after sit-down strike in 1937
*10 workers were shot & killed by police in Chicago during the Little Steel Strike/Memorial Day
Massacre
US foreign policy in 1920s & Kellogg-Briand Treaty (L10/O1)
*independent internationalism
*US promoted trade and peace, but refused to play global leadership role
*Kellogg-Briand Treaty, 1928 = U.S. proposed treaty to outlaw war and invited other countries to join.
Almost all eventually signed but it really meant nothing
Clark Memorandum & "Good Neighbor Policy" (L10/O2)
*Clark Memorandum issued in 1930 said that we are dropping the Roosevelt Corollary from Monroe
Doctrine, there is no right to intervene in Latin America.
*FDR strengthened this approach and called it "good neighbor" policy
*US signed pledge of nonintervention in 1933 at Pan-American conference.
Examine American isolationism during the 1930s and discuss the Nye Committee hearings. (L10/O3)
*Great Depression & WWI experience strengthened desire for noninvolvement
, *NYE Committee in US Senate investigated munitions industry & blamed "merchants of death" for
dragging US into WWI
*Congress passed Neutrality Acts to keep US out of wars:
1935- no US arms sales to belligerents (countries at war)
1936- banned US loans to belligerents
1937- created cash & carry regulations for all non-military trade
identity the aggressor nations & describe the developments in Europe and Asia that led to WWII.
(L10/O4)
Nazi Germany under Hitler,
Fascist Italy under Mussolini,
Imperial Japan under Hirohito/Tojo
Hitler moved toward conquest: domestically, then Austria, then Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia,
explain how the crash aggravated the weaknesses of the economy & triggered the Great Depression
(L9/O1)
*agriculture crisis thru 20s, older industries declining, big business=unequal distribution of wealth,
consumer good market saturated.
*unequal wages=bottom half not consumers
*orgy of mad speculation, "margin buying" prob on wall street
*business & consumer confidence fell, dried up spending
*banks & businesses failed
*unprecedented unemployment peaked at 25%
*greatest challenges= overproduction - underconsumption
describe the impact of the depression on the American people (L9/O2)
