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PART I

Reasons why the "greatest generation" didn't grasp the implications of the rise of the totalitarian states:

 

1. _____The Great Depression _____

Quantitative Data	Textual Data	Visual Data
Dow Average graph (2) Bank Failures Stock Prices Unemployment GDP	Eliot V. Bell article Hoover letter Hoover Economic Survey Harding radio speech Hoover speech Hoover inauguration address Andrew Mellon quote Eileen Barthe (Hard Times) Audio file: Dust Bowl Audio file: City life Martin, successful businessman, (Hard Times) Roosevelt quote Hoover quote Happy Days Economist perspective of Great Depression	Black Thursday Harding electoral map Man Family Children Melt White Dust Bowl Talkman Chicago Bonus Army Bonus Army before Bonus Army after Electoral college- Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Political Cartoon: Isolationism

2. ______Isolationists__________

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Death of Armed Forces	I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier Jane Addams quote Charles Lindbergh quote FDR radio address Time Magazine poll ROTC manual Pittman and McReynolds Act	Ostrich Bonnet Treaty of Versailles I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier Electoral Map for Harding Jane Addams Charles Lindbergh FDR Hitler the pig League of Nations United Nations Political Cartoon: foreign children

 

PART 2.

At the personal level - the "price paid" for that failure was :

1. Physical

Sources drawn on to substantiate contention: [Quotes drawn from….]

Soldier's Letters up on Dr. Victory's websites

Ernie Pyle

89th Infantry Division Primary Documents

 

2. Psychological

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stats on PTSP

Tibbets', pilot of Enola Gay, own account of PTSP

Soldier's Letters up on Victory's website

 

3. The Return Home

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War veteran I interviewed for memoir

Quantitative Data on unemployment and women vs. men in the workforce

Eleanor Roosevelt's article for Click-7 magazine

 

PART III

Sources in their past experience that they drew on to meet that crisis:

1. Women

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Women worker's personal accounts

Propaganda posters

Government Acts

 

2. African-Americans

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Army personal accounts and data

Navy personal accounts and data

Marines/Air Force personal accounts and data

 

3. The Radio

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Audio Clips

Quantitative Data

Edward R. Murrow

 

PART IV -

Two "lessons" that you think contemporary Americans can and should draw from that generation's struggle to come to terms with that crisis.

1. Aftermath of World War II applied ot Aftermath of the Iraqi War

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Polls

React- get troops out of Iraq

Rebuild-help the Iraq government set up

Prevent-enlist the help of the United Nations

 

2. The Education of Children

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Images of the Holocaust

Personal Accounts

Personal Opinions

 

Class Expectations