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APUSH Unit 9 Overview

This document provides an overview of the APUSH units covering the Great Depression, World War II, and the 1950s. It includes key terms, themes, objectives, historians to read, important events, and study questions for the time period. The units cover domestic policies under FDR and his New Deal programs, US involvement in WWII, postwar domestic policies under Truman, Eisenhower, and early Kennedy administrations. The syllabus outlines the schedule for covering these chapters and units over several weeks through readings, discussions, practice questions and a multiple choice test.

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APUSH Unit 9 Overview

This document provides an overview of the APUSH units covering the Great Depression, World War II, and the 1950s. It includes key terms, themes, objectives, historians to read, important events, and study questions for the time period. The units cover domestic policies under FDR and his New Deal programs, US involvement in WWII, postwar domestic policies under Truman, Eisenhower, and early Kennedy administrations. The syllabus outlines the schedule for covering these chapters and units over several weeks through readings, discussions, practice questions and a multiple choice test.

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APUSH Unit Overview GSH Ch.

25, 26, 27 Unit 9 – Depression, World War II & 1950’s

Terms: Be able to identify and explain who, what, where, when, why and significance for each term.
Kitchen Debate Destroyers for bases deal Korematsu v. U.S. Share Our Wealth
Agricultural Adjustment Eisenhower Doctrine lend-lease Soak the rich
Act (A.A.A.) Election of 1932 Manhattan Project Social Security Act
Bay of Pigs invasion Election of 1948 Marshall Plan Taft-Hartley Act
Berlin Airlift Executive Order 9066 Martin Luther King, Jr. Tennessee Valley Authority
Berlin blockade F.D.I.C. National Industrial Truman Doctrine
Brown v. Bd of Education Fireside chats Recovery Act 1933 Wagner Act
Congress of Industrial Frances Perkins NATO Works Progress Admin
Organizations (C.I.O.) Good Neighbor Policy Neutrality Acts Yalta Conference
Civilian Conservation Corp Hiroshima/Nagasaki New Deal/1st 100 Days
Containment House Un-American New Frontier
Court packing plan Activities Committee Potsdam Conference
Cuban missile crisis (HUAC) Schechter v. N.R.A.

Themes: Work, Exchange & Technology, Settlement & Migration, Environment & Geography, America in the World

Objectives:
 Growth expanded opportunity, while economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic
system. (Key Concept 7.1)
 During the 1930’s, policymakers responded to the mass unemployment and social upheavals of the Great
Depression by transforming the U.S. into a limited welfare state, redefining the goals and ideas of modern American
liberalism. (Key Concept 7.1.3)
 Participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while
renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world. (Key Concept 7.3)
 The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a
position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences. (Key Concept 8.1)

Historians:
 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal / The Roosevelt Reconstruction: Retrospect by William E. Leuchtenburg
 The New Deal: The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform by Barton Bernstein
 Truman's Hard Line Prompted the Cold War by Walter LaFeber
 Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis

Important Events:
1932 – FDR Elected 1942 –Executive Order 9066, Battles of Coral Sea and Midway
1933 – Bank Holiday, First Hundred Days 1943 – Zoot Suit Riots, Congress lifts Chinese Exclusion Act,
1934 – Huey Long, Indian Reorganization Act Detroit Race riot
1935 – Supreme Court rules N.R.A. unconstitutional, C.I.O., 1944 – D-Day, G.I. Bill: Battle of the Bulge
Second New Deal 1945 – Yalta Conference, FDR Dies, Truman president, V-E
1936 – A.A.A. unconstitutional, United Auto Workers sit- Day, V-J Day
down strike 1947 – Truman Doctrine, HUAC investigates Hollywood, Taft-
1939 – Germany invades Poland Hartley Act, Marshall Plan
1941 – Four Freedoms Speech, Lend-Lease Act, Pearl Harbor 1948-49 – Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift
Attacked 1949 – NATO
1950-53 – Korean War 1959 – Nixon-Khrushchev “Kitchen Debates”
1950 – McCarthy’s list & Red Scare 1960 – JFK elected
1953 –Rosenburg’s executed 1961 – Bay of Pigs
1954 – Army-McCarthy hearing, Brown v. Board of Education 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis
1956 – Federal Interstate Highway Act, Suez Crisis 1963 – JFK Assassinated
1957 – Eisenhower Doctrine, Integration of Little Rock High
School, Sputnik

Study Questions:
1. How did the New Deal attempt to end the Great Depression AND explain how conservatives in Congress & the
Supreme Court sought to limit the New Deal’s scope.
2. Describe the experience of women & ethnic minorities in the United States & abroad during WWII & how did
they combat sexism and racism? Use specific examples
3. How did a burgeoning private sector, federal spending, the baby boom, and technological development help
spur economic growth in the 1950’s & 1960’s?

Syllabus
WEEK 26 – MODULAR - PARENT CONFERENCES 2/13 Read Leuchtenberg & Bernstein for M/T 2/17 & 18
M/T 2/10&11 Begin Unit 9 Ch. 25 Election 1932 & New Deal & Unit 8 Terms (30)
W 2/12 UNIT 8 MX (100) Cover Sheets (20)
R 2/13 GSH Ch. 25 – Continue FDR New Deal – Parent Conferences 4-6pm
F 2/14 Half Day – Finish New Deal & Begin For. Pol. - 33 min classes

WEEK 27 – MODULAR
M/T 2/17&18 Foreign Policy / Leuchtenberg & Bernstein Historians discussion w/ outlines
W 2/19 Finish Ch. 25
R/F 2/20&21 RODEO BREAK NO SCHOOL

WEEK 28 - MODULAR
M/T 2/24 & 25 Ch. 26 WWII / SAQ PRACTICE IN CLASS TO BE COLLECTED W/ HISTORIANS
W 2/26 Ch. 26 WWII
R 2/27 Ch. 27 Truman Dom Policy & Marshall Plan
F 2/28 Ch. 27 Truman For Pol & IKE

WEEK 29 - MODULAR Read LaFeber & Gaddis for 3/9&10


M/T 3/2&3 Ch. 27 IKE & JFK / DBQ PRACTICE WWII IN CLASS TO BE COLLECTED
W 3/4 SAT W/ ESSAY PERIODS 1-5
R 3/5 Finish JFK
F 3/6 UNIT 9 MX (100) COVERSHEETS & 3RD QTR NOTEBOOK CHECK W/ COVERSHEETS

WEEK 30 – MODULAR END OF QUARTER


M/T 3/9&10 Begin UNIT 10 Ch. 28 LBJ & Vietnam & LaFeber & Gaddis Historians Quiz w/ outlines
W 3/11 Ch. 28 Vietnam/Election 1968
R 3/12 Ch. 28 Rise of Nixon
F 3/13 GRADING DAY – NO SCHOOL

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