Section II (National Study): USA 1919-1941

Prohibition. The Eighteenth Amendment of 1919, the Volstead Act, the temperance movement, speakeasies and bootlegging, Al Capone and organised crime, the failure of enforcement, and the Twenty-first Amendment of 1933 that repealed Prohibition.

Roosevelt's leadership. The Hyde Park aristocrat, polio in 1921, the Albany governorship, the Brain Trust, the fireside chats, the Cabinet, the third and fourth terms, and the transformation of the American presidency.

Path to Pearl Harbor. The Stimson Doctrine, the Open Door, the war in China from 1937, the Tripartite Pact of September 1940, the asset freeze and oil embargo of July 1941, the Hull-Nomura talks, the Hull Note of 26 November 1941, the attack of 7 December 1941, and the declaration of war.

Second New Deal and opposition. The Wagner Act of July 1935, the Social Security Act of August 1935, the WPA, Huey Long's Share Our Wealth, Father Coughlin, Townsend, the Liberty League, the Supreme Court rulings, and the court-packing plan of 1937.

HSC Modern History National Study survey of the USA in 1919. The federal political system, the post-war economy, the Red Scare, the race riots of the Red Summer, the Spanish flu, and Wilson's failed crusade for the League of Nations.

Wall Street Crash and the causes of the Great Depression. The 1920s bull market, the Federal Reserve's tightening, the crash days of October 1929, the banking collapses, the underconsumption thesis, the international gold standard, and the Galbraith and Friedman debates.

American foreign policy 1919-1939. The Senate's rejection of the League, the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-22, the Dawes and Young Plans, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, the Nye Committee, the Neutrality Acts of 1935 to 1937, and the Good Neighbor Policy.

American economy and Republican governments of the 1920s. Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, the Mellon tax cuts, the Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley tariffs, the consumer industries boom, and the weaknesses (farms, distribution of income, speculation) that produced 1929.

Evaluating the New Deal. The 1937-38 Roosevelt recession, unemployment never below 14 per cent, the New Deal coalition, the limited impact on women and African Americans, the Indian Reorganization Act, and the verdicts of Leuchtenburg, Brinkley, Kennedy, and Powell.

Roosevelt's First Hundred Days and the First New Deal. The Emergency Banking Act, fireside chats, the AAA, NRA, CCC, TVA, PWA, FDIC, going off gold, the alphabet agencies, and the historiographical debate over the New Deal's coherence.

African Americans, women, and immigration between 1919 and 1941. The Great Migration, Jim Crow and lynching, the NAACP and Marcus Garvey, the Nineteenth Amendment, women in the 1920s and 1930s, the National Origins Act of 1924, and the Mexican Repatriation.

Social impact of the Depression. Industrial unemployment, Hoovervilles, the Bonus Army, the Dust Bowl, the Okie migration to California, the documentary record of Lange, Steinbeck, and the FSA, and the cultural production of the era.

Hoover's response to the Depression. Unemployment to 25 per cent, Hoovervilles and the Dust Bowl, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of 1932, the Bonus Army of July 1932, Smoot-Hawley, the 1932 election, and the historiographical reassessment of Hoover.

American policy 1939-1941. The November 1939 Neutrality Act, the destroyer-for-bases deal of September 1940, the third-term election, Lend-Lease of March 1941, the Atlantic Charter of August 1941, the undeclared Atlantic war, and the America First Committee.

American society and culture in the 1920s. Mass consumption, the automobile, radio and Hollywood, flappers and the Nineteenth Amendment, the Harlem Renaissance, the National Origins Act of 1924, the second Ku Klux Klan, and the Scopes Monkey Trial.