HIST405N Week 6 Discussion (dq1+dq2) Latest 2021 February

HIST405N United States History

Week 6 Discussion

DQ1 The New Deal

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Textbook: Chapter 24 (Section 24.4), 25, 26

Lesson

Link (video): A New Deal: Part 5 (Links to an external site.) (7:20)

Link (website): New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources: Introduction (Links to an external site.) (Read this introduction before exploring the other links in this discussion.)

Link (website): New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources (Links to an external site.) (Explore the links under Sections and Topic for specific New Deal Programs.)

Link (website): New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources: Digitized Materials (Links to an external site.) (Explore the links for primary sources including audio recordings, written narratives, photographs, posters, and music.)

Link (website): President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal (Links to an external site.) (Review the documents and interviews on this site.)

Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to noted resources)

Initial Post Instructions:

For the initial post, pick two (2) of the following (any program and/or act of the New Deal):

Reflecting over the weekly reading and lesson video The New Deal Coalition (also linked in the Required Resources), address the following for your selections:

Consider workers, immigrants, and African Americans. Explain how minorities were represented by the New Deal.

Analyze to what extent you think that the New Deal effectively ended the Great Depression and restored the economy.

Follow-Up Post Instructions

Compare your selections and analysis of selections with those of your peers. If they chose different events, examine how yours are similar and/or different. If they chose the same events, build on their posts by providing additional information about the events that you have not already noted in your own post.

Writing Requirements

Minimum of 3 posts (1 initial & 2 follow-up)

APA format for in-text citations and list of references

DQ2 World War II

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Textbook: Chapter 27

Lesson

Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook)

Initial Post Instructions

For the initial post, consider three (3) of the following events:

Treaty of Versailles

Rise of fascism, militarism and imperialism

Failure of the League of Nations

Hitler and the Nazi Party

The Lend Lease Act

Japanese expansion and the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Based on your three selections, choose two (2) of the following and craft a response for your selections:

Assess if the United States foreign policy during the 1930s helped to promote World War II. Could the United States have prevented the outbreak of World War II? If so, how? If not, why not?

Explain if the United States, despite neutrality, aided the Allies against the Axis powers.

Analyze if the use of atomic (nuclear) weapons to defeat enemies in war is a setback for democracy (President Truman's decision to drop the atom bomb on Japan).

Follow-Up Posts

Compare your selections and analysis of selections with those of your peers. If they chose different events, examine how yours are similar and/or different. If they chose the same events, build on their posts by providing additional information about the events that you have not already noted in your own post.

Writing Requirements

Minimum of 3 posts (1 initial & 2 follow-up)

APA format for in-text citations and list of references