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=December 12, Wednesday: Republican Causes of the Depression=

//**Republican presidents and policies in the 1920's:**//
 * Warren Harding- Corruption, died in office
 * Calvin Coolidge- "Silent Cal": Hands-off Policies, presided over economic boom, bull market
 * Herbert Hoover- President at Stock Market Crash, start of depression
 * Goals and Achievements
 * Raised Tariffs (see A57 for chart of tariff rates) w/ Smoot-Hawley Tariff
 * WWI vets- lived in tents & camps during depression, marched on Washington
 * Foreign Policy- Isolation & Disarmament
 * Collect War debts from Europe
 * Reinstated Laissez-faire

//**Depression Causes**//
 * Overspeculation of stocks
 * Overexpansion of credit
 * British increased interest rates
 * Panic
 * Worried Americans of investments
 * Huge amount of sold stocks, prices went down
 * Since prices went down, more people sold. A downward spiral.
 * Overabundance of goods
 * Overproduction
 * Ability to make > Ability to sell
 * All led to Stock Market Crash
 * Money supply deflated, too much money in the hands of too few people
 * Banks closed, money in stocks became worthless, overproduction caused loss of factory jobs
 * "Black Tuesday"- October 29, 1929

//**Hoover's Attempts to stop the Depression**//
 * Projects (too small)
 * Helped big business- Trickle Down- Reconstruction Finance Commission
 * Party Divide- Business (Reps) v People (Dems)
 * Tried to balance budget
 * Rugged Individualism

=December 11, Tuesday, Return to normalcy=
 * 1) nostrum and normalcy, quotation on first page of chapter 32
 * 2) Trends in the 1920s as a rejection of pre-war tradition and belief
 * attack on religion-Darwinism
 * rise of materialistic, consumer culture
 * mobilization of society
 * youth culture challenges parents' beliefs
 * isolationism
 * government inaction-laissez faire

=December 10, Monday=
 * 1) DBQ on Wilson's failure at the end of WWI
 * 2) Questions to think about.
 * Pages 706-707
 * What were Wilson's "glorified aims" in fighting WWI?
 * What were the main points of Wilson's 14 Point Plan?
 * Why did the Republicans refer to the 14 Points as the "14 Commandments of God Almighty Wilson?"
 * Pages 718-725
 * How did Wilson's expectations concerning the 14 Points fit into the treaty negotiations at Versailles?
 * What error did Wilson make when he went to the treaty negotiations?
 * What obstacles did Wilson encounter at the Versailles meeting?
 * Why was Wilson "condemned by disillusioned liberals and frustrated imperialists?"
 * What was the Senate's major concern with the treaty?
 * Why did the US become so disillusioned after World War I?

=**December 7-US in WWI**= =1. How did the US move from neutrality to war-list=
 * Assassination of Franz Ferdinand in AH Empire
 * European Powers group to Allies and Central Powers
 * Neutral Trade (Lustiana sank)
 * U-boats hostility
 * Sussex ultimatum
 * Unrestricted submarine warfare
 * Zimmerman note
 * Creel and his Committee of Public Information

=2. How did the US prepare for war?=
 * Public Enthusiasm
 * 14 Points Address
 * Committee of Public Information
 * Espionage and Sedition Acts
 * Industrialization for War
 * Counsel of National Defense
 * War Industries Board
 * National War Labor Board
 * Herbert Hoover - Food Commission
 * Fuel Administration
 * 18th Amendment
 * Soldiers
 * Draft
 * No way out of Dradt
 * Women Workers

=3. How and why did Wilson fail at the end of the war? List.=
 * “War to end all War”- WWII 20 years later
 * 14 points- only one made it into Treaty
 * Treaty of Versailles
 * League of Nations and Article X
 * Republicans won majority at midterm elections
 * Treaty “Tour” of speeches
 * Irreconcilables
 * Solemn Referendum of 1920