HISTORY 12

May 11

Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit – continued

• Intro to Assignment 2 – focus on Continuity vs. Change
  • USA
    • Video:  “The Roaring 20s”
    • Video:  “Boom and Bust”
    • 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
  • Russia
  • Italy
  • Germany
• Homework Readings for this week due Wednesday:
  • Global Forces p.45 “The Great Depression”
  • “Age of Excess” Moodle PDF
  • “Great Depression in the USA”  Moodle PDF
  • *other PDF Articles optional