Hoover and FDR/New Deal Review Post- Seniors

With reference to specific programs, discuss to what extent Hoover and FDR/New Deal successfully addressed one of the following groups.

Banks, Industry, Elderly, Arts, Labor, Farmers/Rural Areas, Women, Youth, African Americans, Women, Native Americans and Mexican Americans.

Review for New Deal Critics- Seniors

Take one of critics of FDR's, give their critic and how it impacted FDR and the New Deal? Which critic do you think had the greatest impact on the New Deal? Why?

Stock Market Crash Post- Juniors have to post and Seniors can post.

"October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday," is remembered as the most devastating day in American stock market history. Stock prices fell in a selling frenzy that began the moment the opening bell sounded. When the trading day was over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped more than thirty points, with some leading stocks plummeting $30-$60 a share. Billions of dollars of fortunes and the life savings of many small investors were wiped out as the decline of the market, which had begun in September, culminated on Black Tuesday. Few people had foreseen the coming of the Great Crash. The country had been riding on the boom of the 1920's."
Source Citation: "The U.S. Stock Market Crashes On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929." DISCovering World History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/

The Stock Market Crash was less dramatic than the common lore portrays it, but it was dramatic given the way people in the twenties viewed the time period. So respond to the following IB prompt given what you know from class and reading the two articles.

"To what extent was the Wall Street Cash a cause of the Great Depression of 1929 in the United States? Support your argument with specific examples"

Great Depression

The Great Depression had numerous causes but we discussed a few major ones. The four major explanations are the Keynesian, Internationalist, Monetarist and the mal-distribution of income. So, in this post, I would like you evaluate at least two of the explanations using specific historical detail. Make sure to point out both the value of the explanation as well as its limitations using specific historical detail. Remember to build of the comments before you by adding something new to the thread.

Woodrow Wilson

To what extent was Woodrow Wilson's actions dealing with entry into WWI and negotiating the treaty of Versialles consistent with his actions in the Western Hemisphere? (USe specific details to support your ideas.)

Make sure to build of the ideas prior to your post and reference which idea you are responding to so thread builds on ideas rather than just restating them.

3 Policies

Consider the following prompt. How successful was the United States' foreign policy towards Latin America in the first two decades of the twentieth century?

Answer all or just one of the following questions: What assumption or assumptions does this prompt make? What do you need to consider to answer the prompt? How would you answer the prompt?

Is History True?

Is the study of history about pursueing the definite truth of what happened? Or is the truth of what happened in history something that changes depending upon the lense in which you examine it? Gie your thoughts on these questions and please include both your insight into this article and the questions you still have? If you have anyother questions about the class or the homework you can email me at ryan_bouchard@sumner.wednet.edu.