- What are the positives of the capitalistic system?
- What religions / ideologies throughout history have shunned individual materialism?
- What caused stock markets to crash?
- What caused banks to fail? Can this happen again?
- What caused the American Dust Bowl?
- What is democratic socialism? Who adopted it? Who did not?
- How was the construction of the Hoover Dam tied to economic recovery during FDR’s New Deal? How did it help?
- What were the causes and effects of the Great Depression?
- Big Question: Nazism in Germany and Fascism in Italy got their nations out of the Great Depression much faster than FDR’s New Deal in America? What really got American out of the Great Depression if not FDR’s New Deal policies?
- Big Thought: Compare and contrast the way nations are affected by the Great Depression> Analyze their different responses to the economic destitution. Last part leads to WWII; Germans and Italians vote away Enlightened rights in favor of immediate economic recovery…but at what cost?!
- Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath excerpt:
- folks, I would LOVE to talk about this short 1-page chapter
- folks, I would LOVE to talk about this short 1-page chapter