Tuesday February 23, 2010

Today in class we review the week and all we need to have done,

Blog Assignment for this week

  1. Define the treaty of Versailles
  2. Describe what the treaty did
  3. Do you think the treaty helped lead to world war II

Project- World War II

Due Date- 2 weeks from yesterday?!

Great Britain

1. How did the Treaty of Versailles impact them?
2. What type(s) of government did this country have in the interwar years(1919-1938)?
3. How did their leader, that led them throughout WWII, come to power?
4. How did this leader change their country(for the better and worse) prior to WWII?
5. What were the goals of the leader?
6. What was the military strategy of this country in the inter-war years(1919-1938)?
7. What role did they play in WWII?
8. Who were their allies in WWII?
9. How did WWII impact/effect the country?

Rubric-

Social Studies content is accurate and thorough. ____/30

Visuals are used appropriately to support the presentation. ____/20

Body language: eye contact, posture and body movement. ____/20

Voice quality: rate, volume, articulation and enthusiasm. ____/10

Technology is incorporated into presentation. ____/10

Presentation includes creative and innovative ideas. ____/5

Presentation gets audience involved in classroom/blog/boards. ____/5

TOTAL: ____/100

Deductions will be taken off individually for freeloading during class work time.

Today in class we had a presentation.

Ashley –FHA and sports

Describe the cycle of the Great Depression?

What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?

Why did people criticize the New Deal?

Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court and what did he do to try to solve this issue?

How did the New Deal help:

unemployed
farmers
factory workers/labor
young people
banks/business
home owners-FHA helped people get homes and also built homes.
elderly
Native Americans

Culture-Baseball, horse racing, football

Describe the culture of the 1930's.

Key terms:

Hundred Days
fireside chats
priming the pump
deficit spending

Test Review-

What did the new deal do to help the unemployed?

-Started many construction jobs, built dams

-hired people to build roads and buildings

-hired people who were artistic, singing, speaking, and dancing

cwa,pwa,ccc,

Describe the Cycle of the Great Depression

Lose jobs-loss spending- companies don’t make $- lose jobs..

What was the New Deal 1st and 2nd it’s goals (3Rs)

-A plan to get people jobs and to get them out of the great depression. FDR’s plan

-Difference between 1st and 2nd- 1st was to aim the top down,1st was to help the big business and 2nd was to help the common people, with welfare and others.

-RRR- Recovery,Reform,Relief – Relief was for the people. Reform was for the banks and the economic. Recovery was for recovering from great depression.

Why did people criticize the New Deal.

-People said that FDR was not doing enough.

-Huey Long wanted people to share wealth, taking money from the rich and give it to the poor.

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Why was FDR upset with the Supreme Court

-AAA,NIRA, saying his things were unconstitutional

What did FDR do to make sure the Supreme Court did not declare things unconstitutional

-Court Packing- Stacked the court in his favor, put most of the democrats on the court so whenever he passed a law they were on his side.

-Judicial Act of 1957?

-Did this pass, no it did not pass, many people felt that he was being to controlling.

Describe the culture of the 1930’s…

Key terms

100 days- First hundred days was graded of Roosevelt’s presidency.

Fireside Chats- People would gather around and listen to Roosevelt on the radio.

Priming the Pump- government had to pump a bunch of money into the economy to jump start it. The economy would not start on it’s own so the government started it

Deficit Spending- The government spends more than what they make.
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