What This Country Needs Is a Good Mental Insecticide

1) Who is squirting insecticide into people's heads?
2) What is he removing from them?
3) Why is the line so long?
4) What do you think is the point the cartoonist is trying to make relative to World War II?

Remember...One More Lollipop and Then You All Go Home!

1) What is an "appeaser?" Does the term have a positive or negative connotation?
2) Who is the cartoonist referring to as "the appeaser?"
3) What are the lollipops the appeaser is offering?  What specific pre-World War II events is the cartoonist referencing?

DON'T MISS THE AP TEST SIGNUP DATE...March 12!

Now. . . World War II!

Enjoy this animated map to get you in the mood!

John Maynard Keynes and the Great Depression

1) WWJD about the Great Depression?
2) WWJMKD (John Maynard Keynes of course!) about the Great Depression?  Check out this link to read a little bit about the man!

“The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.”

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
“It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.” 
John Maynard Keynes

Unemployment Map Animated (Recent Years)

Check out the animated unemployment map from the last couple of years...now imagine unemployment 2.5 times higher . . . that was 1932!  (Unemployment in the USA for Jan. 2010 is 9.7%; it is 11.1% in Illinois.)  What would you do to solve this problem?

Deficit Spending

1) How do the government deficits of the 1930s during the Great Depression compare to the government deficits of the 1920s? 

2) How do they compare to the deficits of the 1940s?

3) New Deal programs did not end the Great Depression, but World War II did...what can you infer about the effectiveness of government spending in ending the Great Depression...did the government spend too much, the right amount, or not enough?