HISTORY 12

May 12

Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit – wrap up

• Assignment 2 – “Continuity vs. Change”
  • USA
    • Video:  “The Roaring 20s”
    • Video:  “Boom and Bust”
    • Video: “The New Deal”
    • Some key points:
      • Post WWI Economic Recovery
      • Isolationism vs Internationalism
      • Tariffs & Protectionism
      • Flappers
      • Prohibition
      • Red Scare
      • Labour movement (and government reaction to)
      • Spin-off Industries (ie. from automobile industry)
      • Inflation vs deflation
      • Ohio Gang
      • Standardization
      • Consumerism
      • Credit
      • On-Margin
      • Mass Production/Overproduction
      • Black Tuesday
      • Alphabet Laws – AAA, CCC, etc.
      • New Deal
      • Fireside Chats
      • Harding –> Coolidge –> Hoover –> FD Roosevelt
      • Sharecroppers/Tenant Farmers
      • Nativism
      • Garveyism
  • Russia
    • Video:  Russian Revolution”
    • Video:  Life Under Stalin
  • Italy
  • Germany
• Homework Readings for this week due Friday:
  • Global Forces p.70-86
  • “Russia in War & Revolution” Moodle PDF (Topic 4)
  • “The Rivals – Stalin vs Trotsky” Moodle PDF (Topic 5)
  • “Stalin & the Soviet Union”  Moodle PDF (Topic 5)
  • *other PDF Articles and Videos optional