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This guide provides a comprehensive overview of World War II, exploring its causes, major turning points, key leaders, and lasting consequences. It delves into critical aspects such as the impact on civil liberties, strategic battles in Europe and the Pacific, and the post-war geopolitical landscape. Key topics include the internment of Japanese Americans, D-Day and the European Theater, the Yalta Conference, the Holocaust, and the formation of the United Nations. This resource is designed for s

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Causes, Impacts, and Responses to the Great Depression

FDR's First Hundred Days and Bank Holiday

FDR creatively called it a bank holiday to reestablish credit and encourage people to start putting money back in the banks.

  • The First Hundred Days (1933)
  • Congressional action
  • Banks first
  • Bank holiday
  • Reestablish credit

The Great Depression and New Deal

Handwritten notes regarding the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the collapse of the stock market.

  • The Great Depression
  • New Deal
  • FDR
  • Black Tuesday
  • Stock market collapse
  • Unemployment
  • Purchasing power
  • Product efficiency

Federal Reserve Board and European Economy

The Federal Reserve Board managed the nations money supply and interest rates while the chaotic state of European economy impacted American goods and debt.

  • Federal Reserve Board
  • money supply
  • interest rates
  • inflation
  • European economy
  • tariffs
  • debt

The Great Depression Crisis and Social Impact

The government denied the crisis while 12 million people were unemployed, causing hunger, homelessness, and malnutrition among vulnerable populations.

  • Unemployment
  • Great Depression
  • Social impact of crisis
  • Black Americans jobless rates
  • Immigrant scapegoating
  • Mexican Repatriation
  • Dust Bowl
  • Midwest drought

Financial Reform During First Hundred Days

Financial Reform including FDIC expanded, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to oversee stock market, and ending the gold standard.

  • Financial Reform
  • FDIC expanded
  • Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
  • End gold standard

Hoover's Response and FDR's New Deal

Handwritten notes regarding the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover's response, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

  • Hoover’s Response to the Depression
  • Voluntarism
  • Revenue Act of 1932
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation
  • Bonus Army
  • Election of 1932
  • The New Deal
  • Bank Holiday
  • Industrial Recovery Act
  • Agricultural Administration Act
  • Civilian Conservation Corps
  • Securities & Exchange Commission

Causes and Responses to the Great Depression

Study notes regarding the causes and early responses to the Great Depression, including international and domestic causes and President Hoover's response.

  • International causes
  • Tariffs
  • Gold standard
  • Worldwide price drops
  • Domestic causes
  • Unequal distribution of wealth/income
  • Overproduction and underconsumption
  • Federal Reserve restricted money supply
  • State governments balanced budgets
  • Farmers overborrowed and overproduced
  • Reconstruction Finance Corp

The United States Home Front During World War II

United States During World War II

Study notes regarding minority groups, segregation of the armed forces, and economic changes during World War II.

  • Native Americans
  • Japanese Americans
  • African Americans
  • Segregation of the armed forces
  • War Department policy
  • Black aviator squadron
  • Military desegregation
  • Economic recovery
  • Great Depression
  • Workers’ wages
  • Research and Development
  • Scientific and medical advances
  • Antibiotics

United States World War II Home Front

A document detailing United States unity, mobilization, and a government-directed economy during World War II.

  • Unity and mobilization
  • Government propaganda
  • National sacrifice
  • War Production Board
  • Government-directed economy
  • War production and GNP
  • Women in defense industries

Japanese-American Internment and Racial Discrimination

Study notes regarding racial discrimination, city-wide rioting, and the history of Japanese-American internment in the United States.

  • Racial discrimination in housing, employment, and policing
  • Japanese-American internment
  • Civil rights violations
  • War necessity justification
  • Korematsu v. United States
  • Supreme Court decisions
  • Military necessity
  • Congressional compensation for internees

United States Home-front Sacrifice During World War II

Handwritten notes regarding the Office of Price Administration, rationing, Victory gardens, labor, and economic factors during World War II.

  • Office of Price Administration
  • Inflation control
  • Rationing
  • Victory gardens
  • Labor strikes
  • Recycling
  • Housing shortages
  • Defense spending
  • Employment-based health insurance
  • Mexican Americans
  • Bracero Program

World War II Home Front and Demographics

Handwritten notes detailing military enlistment, war production, home front economy, and the experiences of women, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans during World War II.

  • Military Enlistment
  • War Production
  • Home Front Economy
  • Rationing
  • Women in the Military
  • Rosie the Riveter
  • Great Migration
  • Segregation
  • Bracero Program
  • Zoot Suit Riots
  • Native Americans
  • Code Talkers
  • Indigenous Languages

World War II The Home Front

Handwritten notes regarding the American home front, Pearl Harbor, wartime production, and Operation Overlord.

  • Pearl Harbor
  • FDR
  • Wartime production
  • Japanese American internment camps
  • Propaganda films
  • Gold star homes
  • Operation Overlord
  • D-Day

Post-WWII America and the Civil Rights Movement

The Berlin Airlift and Candy Bomber

  • Berlin Airlift
  • Air traffic control system
  • Candy rations
  • Logistics and statistics

Social and Political Changes in America

Handwritten notes describe how fear of communism, desegregation efforts, and television usage characterized a time of change.

  • Communism in Cuba
  • Fear of communism
  • Desegregation efforts
  • Television as an escape
  • Social change

Civil Rights Movement and Judicial Landmarks

Notes regarding Civil Rights laws, the judiciary branch, and the nonviolent movement involving figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.

  • Civil Rights laws
  • Judiciary branch
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Racial segregation
  • KKK
  • Nonviolent movement
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Nonviolent civil disobedience
  • Little Rock Nine

The Great Depression and New Deal Era

Soviet Union and American Intellectuals

American intellectuals joined CPUSA as the Soviet Union was not affected by the depression, leading to the second red scare and labor unrest.

  • Soviet Union
  • CPUSA
  • American intellectuals
  • The depression
  • Second red scare
  • Labor unrest

Modern American History Study Notes

Study notes covering the Dust Bowl, the Bonus Army, and the FDR era.

  • The Environment: Dust Bowl
  • Great Plains
  • Exodus to California
  • WWI Selective Service
  • Bonus Army
  • FDR, 1933-1945
  • Unemployment

Reasons for the Depression

Industrial and agricultural collapse, overproduction and underconsumption, and government policies led to the depression.

  • Industrial & Agricultural collapse
  • Overproduction & underconsumption
  • Farm sector stagnation
  • Government policies
  • Raising tariff

New Deal America and Modern Transitions

A study sheet exploring the transition to modern America through the New Deal, the Great Depression, and the rise of fascism.

  • New Deal
  • Hoover and FDR
  • The Dust Bowl
  • Bonus Army
  • Social reform
  • Rise of fascism in Germany & Japan
  • World War II
  • Stock speculation
  • Great Depression
  • Progressive Era
  • Localism

The Great Depression in the United States

  • Localism
  • American Dream
  • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
  • World War I
  • Dust Bowl

Fair Labor Standards Act and New Deal

Notes regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the 1937 recession, and the New Deal's lasting legacy.

  • Fair Labor Standards Act 1938
  • child labor
  • minimum wage
  • 40 hour week
  • 1937 recession
  • New Deal
  • big government
  • WWII mobilization
  • legislative stalemate

FDR and the Great Depression

Handwritten notes regarding FDR, the New Deal, and social impacts during the Depression.

  • FDR
  • New Deal
  • Socialism
  • Great Depression
  • Race Relations
  • Communism

Rise and Impact of World War II

Rise of World War II Tensions

  • Hitler Youth
  • paramilitary training
  • SS officers
  • Japanese ultranationalists
  • Rape of Nanking
  • League of Nations

American Isolationism and Post-WWI Reaction

American refusal to join the League of Nations and the World Court reflected strong isolationist sentiment and a retreat from internationalism.

  • American isolationism
  • League of Nations
  • World Court
  • Neutrality Acts
  • Nye committee hearings
  • George Washington’s advice
  • Merchants of death

From New Deal to Global War

Study notes regarding the New Deal, its 3Rs of relief, recovery, and reform, and the transition to World War 2.

  • 3Rs: relief, recovery, reform
  • American Isolationism
  • The Homefront: Sacrifice
  • New Deal success and failure
  • FDIC
  • SEC
  • Social Security Act
  • AAA
  • Wagner Act
  • Industrial regulation
  • Volatility of capitalism

World War II History and Responses

Handwritten notes covering the Holocaust, post-war justice, the Pacific War, and war casualties.

  • The Final Solution
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • FDR
  • War Refugee Board
  • Genocide
  • Nuremberg Trials
  • Battle of Midway
  • island-hopping
  • War Casualties

Fascism and Post-War World Changes

Study notes discussing the rise of fascism, Hitler's impact on Germany, and how World War II changed the United States and the world.

  • Fascism
  • Nationalism
  • Versailles Treaty
  • League of Nations
  • World War II mobilization
  • German rearmament
  • Nativism
  • Xenophobia

Week 7 Documentary The Homefront Notes

  • FDR's health
  • Japan surrender
  • atomic bomb
  • Nagasaki

United States Involvement in World War II

Study notes regarding the United States' involvement in World War II, focusing on the transition from isolationism to active participation and the Pearl Harbor attack.

  • Early Isolationism
  • Cash and carry policy
  • America First Committee
  • Pearl Harbor attack
  • War goals

Lend-Lease Program and US Isolationism

Franklin D. Roosevelt was given authority to lend materiel to Great Britain, China, and the USSR through the Lend-Lease program.

  • Lend-Lease
  • Isolationism
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Materiel
  • World War II aid

Pearl Harbor Attack and Impact

The Pearl Harbor attack on Dec 7, 1941, destroyed planes and the naval fleet, leading the U.S. to declare war on Japan.

  • Pearl Harbor attack
  • Impact of the attack
  • Day of Infamy speech
  • Declaration of war

Four Major World War II Themes

World War II was a period of greater good ascendancy where individualism receded and localism gave way to centralism.

  • Unity
  • Individualism and the greater good
  • Centralism
  • Localism

United States at the Start of World War II

Study notes regarding the United States at the start of World War II, social and economic statistics, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's political approach.

  • Urbanization
  • Living Conditions
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Life expectancy
  • Median annual wage
  • Gross national product
  • FDR's Four Freedoms
  • Freedom of speech
  • Freedom of worship

World War II Historical Events and Leaders

Handwritten notes detailing the Manhattan Project, FDR's policies, the Atlantic Charter, and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

  • Manhattan Project
  • The Blitz
  • FDR
  • Isolationism
  • Peacetime military draft
  • Lend and Lease Act
  • Atlantic Charter
  • Winston Churchill
  • Tripartite Pact
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Declaration of war message

World War II History and Events

Handwritten notes covering Japanese Americans, war strategy, D-Day, the 1944 election, major battles, the Yalta Conference, and the Holocaust.

  • Japanese Americans
  • war relocation camps
  • United Nations
  • D-Day
  • 1944 presidential election
  • FDR
  • Yalta Conference
  • Big Three Allied leaders
  • postwar Germany
  • Eastern Europe
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • The Holocaust
  • Nazism

Post-WWII United States and Cold War History

Cold War Tensions and Containment Strategies

Notes regarding the Cold War tensions between the capitalist U.S. and communist Soviet Union involving the Truman Doctrine and containment.

  • Cold War
  • Capitalist U.S.
  • Communist Soviet Union
  • Expansion of communist ideologies
  • Satellite nations
  • Containment
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Economic and military aid

Cold War Era History Notes

Handwritten notes covering the Korean War, Red Scare, and Lavender Menace.

  • Korean War
  • Red Scare
  • Lavender Menace
  • Cold War
  • 38th parallel

Post-WWII United States History

Historical study notes regarding the post-WWII era in the United States focusing on the Truman administration, civil rights, and the Cold War and Korean War.

  • civil rights
  • Cold War
  • Korean War
  • post-WWII era

Post-WWII Cold War Era History

Historical study notes regarding the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO, Truman Doctrine, and post-war social developments.

  • Berlin Airlift
  • NATO
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Department of Defense
  • National Security Council
  • Central Intelligence Agency
  • Creation of Israel
  • Fair Deal
  • G.I. Bill of Rights

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency and New Deal

FDR Era and Eleanor Roosevelt

The National Recovery Administration industrial codes and Eleanor Roosevelt's influence on FDR regarding women's rights, trade unionism, and African-American rights.

  • National Recovery Administration
  • Industrial codes of competition
  • Trade unionism
  • Women's rights
  • African-American rights
  • Foreclosures

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency and Media

Study notes regarding Franklin D. Roosevelt’s entry into office, his philosophy of bold experimentation, and his use of radio fireside chats and press conferences.

  • FDR’s entry into office
  • Government philosophy
  • Bold, persistent experimentation
  • FDR and the media
  • Fireside chats
  • Press conferences

FDR, LaGuardia, and New Deal Reforms

Handwritten notes regarding FDR, LaGuardia, and the impact of New Deal programs and public works projects on Black Americans and New York City.

  • FDR
  • La Guardia
  • New deal programs
  • WPA
  • discrimination against Black Americans
  • NRA

Mid-1930s United States Political Climate

Study notes regarding the political climate and legislative changes in the United States during the mid-1930s, specifically focusing on critics of the government and the Second New Deal.

  • Second New Deal
  • Share our Wealth program
  • Populist
  • Political spectrum

The Second New Deal and Social Security

The Second New Deal involved a shift in governance toward the federal government through the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act.

  • Second New Deal
  • Works Progress Administration
  • Social Security Act
  • Unemployment insurance
  • Aid to Dependent Children
  • Social security savings
  • Federal government role

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Programs

Study notes regarding the First Hundred Days of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency and various programs established under the New Deal.

  • Agric Adjustment Act (AAA)
  • Restriction of output
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • Flood control
  • Electricity
  • New governance

New Deal Relief Measures and Programs

Relief measures including Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Admin, and Civil Works Admin.

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
  • Public Works Administration
  • Civil Works Admin (CWA)
  • National Recovery Admin (NRA)

The First New Deal and FDR

Handwritten study notes regarding the First New Deal, banking reform, Wall Street regulation, and various legislative programs under FDR.

  • The First New Deal
  • Emergency Banking Act of 1933
  • Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  • Securities Act of 1933
  • Securities Act of 1934
  • Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
  • 21st Amendment
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

FDR Era Labor Legislation and Supreme Court

Study notes covering the Wagner Act, the Taft-Hartley Act, and the Supreme Court's shift during the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

  • Wagner Act
  • National Labor Relations Board
  • Taft-Hartley Act
  • right-to-work laws
  • FDR’s court-packing plan
  • Constitutional Revolution of 1937
  • Civil Rights Revolution
  • New Deal programs

Critics of FDR and Second New Deal

Handwritten notes detailing critics of FDR and the far reaching programs of the Second New Deal.

  • The Second New Deal
  • Works Progress Administration
  • National Labor Relations Act
  • Wagner Act
  • The Social Security Act of 1935
  • Revenue Act of 1935

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