QUESTIONS FROM THE CRASH AND NEW DEAL LECTURE:
What problems were appearing in the U.S. economy during the ten years prior to the crash of the New York Stock Exchange in 1929?
Why is it not completely accurate to describe the American 1920s as the “Roaring Twenties”?
What did the Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover proclaim on the campaign trail in 1928?
The 1929 NYSE crash did not directly cause the Great Depression. But, by 1931, depressionary conditions had permeated the United States. What were those conditions?
What was the Bonus March episode and how did it affect President Hoover’s bid for a second term in the White House?
How did Americans internalize guilt about the Great Depression?
Why didn’t the Depression radicalize the American masses?
How enthusiastic were the Republicans about Hoover’s re-nomination in 1932?
How was FDR an heir to a progressive political tradition?
QUESTIONS FROM THE WORLD WAR II LECTURE:
How had Japan emerged as a Pacific power following World War I?
What economic and social problems beleaguered the Japanese during the 1920s and 1930s?
What did the Japanese Kwantung Army do as a pretext for Japan’s occupation of the entire Manchurian region?
Who was P’u-yi?
Assignment Two
It is November 1941. You are a correspondent for the Associated Press (AP) news wire service. Please write a succinct but informed memorandum to your senior editor explaining why Congress is giving President Franklin D. Roosevelt considerably more latitude to meet the Japanese threat in the Pacific than the German peril in the Atlantic. NOTE WELL: You are composing a memo drafted in November 1941. Since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941, you are NOT to include that event in your memo!
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