A dark day in Hooverville. Causes of the Great Depression ; Black Tuesday ; Hoovervilles & the Bonus Army ; A day in the life of a 1930s family -- A tale of two presidents. Herbert Hoover ; Franklin Roosevelt ; Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 inaugural address ; The first 100 days -- A "New Deal" for America. The New Deal ; The WPA ; The CCC ; The TVA -- We interrupt this broadcast. Radio in the 1930s ; The Federal Music Project ; Big bands & swing music ; War of the worlds -- No place like home. Movies in the 1930s ; Bing Crosby ; Shirley Temple ; Will Rogers -- Dust Bowl blues. The Dust Bowl ; Black blizzards ; Dust Storm preparations ; Dust Bowl pests -- The Okies. Okies ; The grapes of wrath ; John Steinbeck ; Woody Guthrie -- No one wears a crown. Huey P. Long ; John L. Lewis & the CIO ; Father Coughlin ; Alfalfa Bill Murray -- Women of the 1930s. Eleanor Roosevelt ; Margaret Mitchell ; Amelia Earhart ; Babe Didrikson Zaharias -- The world of tomorrow. Art in the 1930s ; Dorothea Lange ; Federal Theatre Project ; 1939 World's Fair

Ten units, each accompanied by student activities, focusing on the events and notable people of the 1930s in the United States; includes answer key for student activities