1. Good morning!
Please get out your Impacts of the Great Depression chart, your Hoover vs. FDR chart, your Major Themes sheet, and any notes you may have.
You’ll need ½ sheet of paper for a brief quiz.

2. Four Minutes
Quiz
Write a thesis statement…
How similar were FDR’s and Hoover’s approaches to addressing the problems of the Great Depression?
To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling.
When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds.
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3. After initial hesitation to use the power of the federal government to address the problems of the Great Depression Hoover did take some relatively bold steps. However, Hoover’s cautious approach would pale in comparison to the dramatically strong and multi-faceted approach of FDR and his New Deal to use federal power in ways that few had ever envisioned.

4. Compare/contrast the philosophy of each.
GQ#2 - How effective were the strategies used by Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to deal with the domestic problems facing the USA in the 1930s?
Compare/contrast the philosophy of each.
Create a Venn diagram
½ group read each doc
Then share your findings
Be prepared to discuss with the class

5. Herbert Hoover Philosophically Opposed Bold response But…
1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Public Works
Home Loan Bank Act
Effects
But…
Called for tax hike in 1931
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Opposed Unemployment Ins.
Bonus Army

8. Paper 2 Part A
Why did President Hoover struggle to deal with the impact of the Great Crash?
List of reasons
Explanations of each with vocab
Most significant?

9. 1932 Election
Candidates
Philosophies

10. Shift in power to whom?

11. Franklin D. Roosevelt Philosophy & Goals Keynesian Economics
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Relief
Recovery
Reform
Keynesian Economics
“Priming the Pump”
Brain Trust
Rejected laissez-faire
Competition of ideas
Eleanor Roosevelt
The First Hundred Days

12. Alphabet Soup What is your agency or program & what did it do?
What problem does it seek to address? How so?
Organize these by category. Explain.
Organize by how radical or controversial they were. Explain
Organize by significance or importance in addressing the problems of the GD. Explain

13. The Hundred Days
Banking Crisis
Bank Holiday
Emergency Banking Act
Fireside chats
FDIC (Glass-Steagall Act)

14. The Hundred Days Relief Home Owners Loan Corp. Farm Credit Admin. CCC
FERA
CWA

15. For Recovery
NIRA
PWA
NRA: Business cooperation
AAA: subsidies
TVA*

16. For Reform & Regulation
Federal Securities Act
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Buying on Margin

17. Practice Paper 2 Part A
Why did FDR’s presidency begin with “100 Days” of action?

18. The Dust Bowl
Great Plains
Massive drought 1932-’34
Effect
Okies
The Grapes of Wrath