HIS105 Week 5 Discussion Latest 2019 January Question # 00597210 Course Code : HIS105 Subject: History Due on: 01/25/2019 Posted On: 01/25/2019 12:20 PM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.9/5

HIS105 American
History after 1865

Week 5
Discussion

Part 1: Post a Response

After the end of World War I, overall economic growth
exploded in the US in the early 1920s, but then there was a severe economic
breakdown with the Great Depression of 1929-1939.

Choose and discuss (in a full paragraph or two) one of the
following two topics related to the 1920s and1930s.

The textbook highlights the significant emergence of new
cultural trends due to improved technology (radio, movies, photography) and the
spread of books & magazines (writers) in the “roaring” 1920s as well as in
the 1930s, and also to new movements like the Harlem Renaissance, consumerism,
and new “norms” for women.

Consider the new technology of radio and photography. With
specific examples from the 1920s, discuss how these new technologies helped one
of the movements and trends above.

Explain whether you think this helped to develop a more
unified national culture or more individuality, and identify a similar example
today with technology helping a trend or movement.

Identify the source(s) where you read about the trend of the
1920s.

The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the most
devastating economic downturns that America has ever experienced. Determine
whether you believe that the federal responses to the Great Depression by
President Franklin Roosevelt encouraged real economic growth and confidence or
whether the arguments by critics of the day were accurate that it made the
Depression last longer.

Identify your position and support it with at least two
specific examples of New Deal responses.

Provide a rationale for your response.

From this historical experience, identify any lessons for
today for handling or avoiding severe economic downturns in the U.S. economy.

Identify the source(s) where you read about the New Deal
responses.

Part 2: Respond to a Peer

Read a post by one of your peers and respond, making sure to
extend the conversation by asking questions, offering rich ideas, or sharing
personal connections.

Reference Material

Week 5 Learn materials

Chapters 21 and 22