WALTON/ROCKOFF, Chapter 23, (pp. 464-65)

1. Describe fiscal policy during the Great Depression.
How expansionary was fiscal policy?

WALTON/ROCKOFF, Chapter 24

1. Describe the following aspects of the New Deal:
a. National Recovery Administration.
b. agricultural policies.
c. social security.
d. monetary and fiscal policy 1934 39.

2. To what extent were fiscal and monetary policies responsible for the recession of 1937 38?

3. Describe the effects of New Deal laws on unions.

ATACK/PASSELL, pp. 633-46

1. Summarize the evolution of unemployment in the 1930s.

2. What were the causes of the recession of 1937 38?

3. Summarize the debate over the role of fiscal policy in the recovery.
How expansionary was fiscal policy?

4. What were the different goals of the New Deal?
To what extent are these goals mutually compatible or contradictory?