CHAPTER 26 STUDY GUIDE
ISSUES TO UNDERSTAND
After reading the chapter, you should be able to discuss the following:
1. The kinds of physical and emotional distress people suffered because of the depression
2. What happened in the labor movement in the 1930s and why
3. What happened to working women during the depression
4. The impact of the depression on Mexican-Americans and Hispanic-Americans
5. John Collier's New Deal for Indians and why it was controversial
6. The impact of the depression on family life and population trends
7. The popular entertainment of the 1930s and how these treated the depression and related social problems
8. How literature, drama, art, and music were affected by the depression, the Popular Front, and the rising cultural nationalism
9. The Good Neighbor policy and how closely the Roosevelt administration followed it
10. The aggressive actions that Fascist Italy, Japan, and Nazi Germany took in the 1930s
11. How the American public reacted to these aggressive actions of the fascists and why
12. How Congress and the Roosevelt administration responded to the aggressive moves of Germany, Italy, and Japan
13. How the United States treated Jewish refugees from the Nazis
and why it followed that policy
VOCABULARY
The following terms are used in Chapter 26. To understand the chapter fully, it is important that you know what each means.
militance aggressiveness, combativeness
urbanization growth of cities and towns; movement of population from rural areas to cities and towns
barrios Hispanic urban neighborhoods
repatriation the bringing or sending back of a person to his or her own country
assimilation the process of absorbing or incorporating a minority group into the majority culture or society; the process of making the minority resemble or become like the majority
demographic pertaining to social statistics such as the births, deaths, marriages, movements, growth, and so on, of populations
proletariat the industrial working class
totalitarian of or pertaining to a centralized government that attempts to control all institutions in its society and permits no opposition parties or opinions
streamlining eliminating all extraneous design features in favor of smoothly flowing surfaces (ones that are often teardrop shaped and offer the least resistance in passing through the air)
appeasement making concessions to pacify, quiet, or satisfy the
other
party
IDENTIFICATIONS
After reading Chapter 26, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:
John L. Lewis
Sidney Hillman
Committee for Industrial Organization, later Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Walter Reuther, the United Automobile Workers, and the sit-downs
Henry Ford, Harry Bennett, and the Battle of the Overpass
Tom Girdler, "Little Steel," and the Memorial Day Massacre
Scottsboro boys
Richard Wright
John Collier and the Indian Reorganization Act, 1934
Pare Lorentz, "The River" and "The Plow That Broke the Plains"
Marx Brothers
Stepin Fetchit
James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan
John Dos Passos, U:S.A
Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
John Reed clubs
Popular Front
Francisco Franco, Spanish Loyalists, and the Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
John Steinbeck, 1be Grapes ofWrath
James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Glenn Miller
Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
William Faulkner
Cordell Hull
Good Neighbor policy
Munich Conference, 1938
Nye Committee hearings
Neutrality Acts
Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, and the "final solution"
St. Louis
SKILL BUILDING: MAPS
On a map of Europe and North Africa in the 1930s locate each of the following and explain its significance in the coming of World War II:
Spain
Soviet Union
Italy
Germany
Rhineland
Ethiopia
Austria
Sudetenland
Munich
Czechoslovakia
Albania
Poland (area occupied by the Soviet Union; area occupied by Germany under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet Pact)
Europe and North Africa, 1935