Unemployment
Over 30 Million…
US Industrial Production
20% Pay Cuts, 1929-32
Bank Closures
Mortgage Foreclosures
Public Charities…
Suicide Rate
Over 1 Million “Hobos” / Drifters
Bonus Army
Malnutrition
“Panhandling”
John Dillenger
V. “Dust Bowl”
Lack of Crop Rotation
Droughts
Deforestation
Soil Erosion
Over 1 Million “Okies” & “Arkies”
Grapes of Wrath
VI. Urban Middle Class
Divorce Rate
Unemployed Men…
Women Survival Techniques
VII. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 – 1945
FDR, 1904
NY State Senator, 1910-13
Assistant Secretary of Navy, 1913-20
James Cox, 7/5/1920
Polio, Aug. 1921
New York Governor
“Nobless Oblige”
Democratic National Convention, 7/2/1933 / New Deal
John Nance Garner
FDR
“Brain Trust”
Adolphe A. Berle, Raymond Moley, & Rexford G. Tugwell
FDR’s Cabinet
Henry Morgenthau
Henry A. Wallace
Frances Perkins
Harold L. Ickes
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” 3/4/1933
“New Deal” Legislation
VIII. FDR’s 1st “100 Days” (March 9 – June 16, 1933)
“Bank Holiday”
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Beer & Wine Revenue Act
C.C.C. Act
Over 3 Million, “Tree Army”
AAA
Federal Emergency Relief Act
TVA
Federal Securities Act
Home Owners Refinancing Act
National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA)
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
IX. “Fireside Chats”
FDR…
X. New Deal / “Alphabet Soup”
PWA
Golden Gate Bridge
21st Amendment
FHA
Wagner Act
WPA
Social Security Act
“Court Packing” Plan
Fair Labor Standard Act
XI. Minorities
Mexican Americans
Moved to large cities
Segregation
Over 1 Million…
African Americans
Segregated Federally funded…
Discriminatory hiring…
Rural Blacks…
Lynching, Segregation
“Black Cabinet”
NAACP
Women’s Place
Only 1 member…
25% more Women
Clerical Jobs
More than 100
Frances Perkins
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dorothea Lange
XII. “New Deal” Critics
“Boondoggling”
Father Charles E. Coughlin
Dr. Francis E. Townsend
Huey “Kingfish” Long, 1935
American Liberty League
Upton Sinclair
XIII. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hope & Confidence
Deficit Spending
Unemployment
Military preparations, 9/1/1939
Only WWII
XIV. Sports
Chicago Bears, 1933
Joe Louis
New York Yankees
Jesse Owens
XV. Hollywood
Selznick International, 1939
Wizard of Oz, 1939
Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, John Wayne
Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs, 1937
XVI. Radio
Orson Wells, 10/30/1938
Benny Goodman & Glenn Miller
XVII. Literature
John Steinbeck, 1939
Pearl Buck, 1931
Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Robert Frost
Richard Wright, 1940
New Comics & Escapism
World War II #26
I. Major Causes of World War II
Treaty of Versailles, 1919
League of Nations, 1919-39
Great Depression, 1930s
Fear of Communism
Axis Aggression & Expansion
Ethiopia, 1935-36
Rhineland, 3/7/1936
Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
China, 1937
“Anschluss”, 3/12/1938
Munich Conference, 9/29/1938
Czechoslovakia, 3/15/1939
Movotov & Ribbentropp, 8/23/1939
II. Invasion of Poland, 9/1/1939
“Blitzkrieg”
Goring’s Luftwaffe
Wehrmacht
France & England, 9/3/1939
World War II, 1939-45
U.S. Neutrality, 9/5/1939
III. Sitzkrieg
Maginot Line
Over 800,000
IV. “Blitzkreig” 5/9/1940
Wehrmact
Heinz Guderian & Von Kleist
Luftwaffe’s “Stuka”
Dunkirk Evacuation
Paris, 6/14/1940
Compaigne
Charles De Gaulle
V. Battle of Britain, 6/1940 – 6/1941
Herman Goring
Royal Air Force, RAF
Winston Churchill
VI. “Operation Barbarrosa” 6/22/1941
Wehrmacht
“General Winter”
Hitler’s “Two Front” war
Georgi Zhukov
Stalingrad, 9/1942
Wehrmacht
VII. Erwin Rommel, “Desert Fox”
Rommel’s “Africa Corps”
Bernard L. Motgomery
Battle of El Alamein
VIII. Causes for US Entrance
Matthew C. Perry, 1853-54
“Fear of the Yellow Peril”
White California
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05
Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905
Taft-Taktsura, 1905
Root-Takahira, 1908
“Gentlemen’s Agreement” 1907
Manchuria, 9/18/1931
Shanghai, 1932
Jehol Province, 1933
U.S. Panay, 12/12/1937
Lend-Lease Act, 3/11/1941
Charles A. Lindbergh
Japanese Assets, 7/25/1941
“Flying Tigers” 1941
Claire S. Chennault
Atlantic Charter, 8/14/1941
U.S.S. Kearney, 10/17/1941
“Wolf Packs”
U.S.S. Reuben James, 10/30/1941
IX. Pearl Harbor, 12/7/1941
2,403 US Servicemen
USS Arizona
About 188 aircraft
US Aircraft Carriers
Wake Island…
President F.D. Roosevelt, 12/8/1941
George C. Marshall
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Louis Mountbatten
Joseph W. Stillwell
Dwight E. Eisenhower
Cordell Hull
I. Mobilizing for Global War
Industry Goes to War
War Production Board (WPB)
Farm economy booms again
Braceros
The End of the Depression
Rationing and Price Controls
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Rationing & Recycling
The Armed Forces
Campaigning against segregation
Judge William H. Hastie
Thurgood Marshall
Confronting Racism
Migration increases
“Zoot suit riots”
Fighting Prejudice
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
NAACP, CORE, & the Elizalde Committee
Japanese-American Internment
Executive Order 9066
Internment Camps
2/3rd of Japanese interned were Nisei (children born in the US)
Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Korematsu v. United States
Executive Order #9066, 2/19/1942
All Nisei 442nd Combat Unit
X. Pacific Theater
James H. Doolittle, 4/18/1942
Battle of Coral Sea, 5/7-8/1942
Battle of Midway, 6/3-6
Raymond Spruance
Guadalcanal, 8/7/1942 – 2/7/1943
Douglas MacArhtur
Jungle Warfare
“Bushido Code”
XI. “Island Hopping” Strategy
Gilbert Islands
Marshall Islands
Mariana Islands
Guam
Battle of the Philippines
Leyte Gulf
Kamikaze Pilots
Manila
Japan
Iwo Jima Campaign
Okinawa Campaign
XII. Casablanca Conference
Kasserine Pass
“Operation Husky”
Gen. Bernard Montgomery & Gen. George Patton
Invasion of Italy
Mark Clark
XIII. Teheran Conference
XIV. “Operation Overlord” / D-Day 6/6/1944
Omar Bradley
Rommel
George S. Patton
Paris, 6/25/1944
Battle of the Bulge
Remagen Bridge
Jewish Concentration Camps
XV. Yalta Conference
FDR, 4/12/1944
Harry S. Truman
Manhattan Project
Leslie Groves & Robert Oppenheimer
XVI. Patton & Zhukov
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
XV. V-E Day
Berlin, 5/2/1945
Karl Doenitz
XVI. Potsdam Conference
“Trinity Experiment”
Henry L. Stimson
Truman…
XVII. Hiroshima, 8/6/1945
Nagasaki, 8/9/1945
Emperor Hirohito
Formal Surrender, 9/2/1945
56 Million…
The Truman Years #27
I. Harry S. Truman, 1884 - 1972
Independence, MO
Public School
World War I (1917-18)
Eddie Jacobson, 1919-22
“Bess” Wallace
Jackson County, 1922-24
Tom Pendergast
US Senator, 1934-45
Chairman
FDR, 1944
II. “Accidental President”
Monumental Task…
“Manhattan Project”
“V-E Day” 5/8/1945
Potsdam Conference, 7/17/1945
“Total Unconditional Surrender”
“Trinity Experiment” 7/16/1945
Henry Stimson
Reasons…
Hiroshima, 8/6/1945
“Enola Gay”
Nagasaki, 8/9/1945
Japan…
Douglas MacArthur
Dual Occupation of Germany…
United Nations, 4/25/1945
China
Tyrgve Lie
Secret Ariat
Security Council
“Big 5”
General Assembly
III. Foreign Policy
Ho Chi Minh, 9/2/1945
George F. Kennan
Winston Churchill, 3/5/1946
Truman doctrine, 3/12/1947
Andrei Zhdanov, 1947
Israel, 5/14/1947
Marshall Plan, 6/5/1947
European Economic Recovery
Rio Treaty, 1947
Berlin Blockade, 4/1/1948
Truman, 6/29/1949
NATO, 7/21/1949
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mao Zedong, 10/1/1949
Chiang Kai-Chek, 8/5/1949
UN & Korea
North Korean Communists
Syngman Rhee
Kim Il-Sung
UN Security, 6/27/1949
Jacob A. Malik
IV. “Korean War”
Truman, 6/30/1947
Douglas MacArthur, 7/8/1947
Inchon
Pyongyang
MacArthur
Chinese Communists
MacArthur vs. Truman
Matthew Ridgway
Cease-Fire Talks
Korean War, 7/27/1953
Ted Williams & John Glenn
V. Peace Talks
US – Philippines Security
Anzus
Japanese Peace Treaty
Peace Conract
VI. US & Atomic Energy
McMahon Act, 8/1/1946
National Security Act, 7/26/1947
Charles Yeager, 10/19/1947
Hydrogen Bomb, 1/30/1950
VII. Communist “Witch Hunt”
House on Un-American Activities, 11/25/1947
Federal Loyalty Program
“Loyalty Boards”
Alger Hiss, 12/15/1948
Whittaker Chambers
11 US Communists, 10/14/1949
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Joseph McCarthy, 2/22/1950
McCarthy…
“McCarthyism”
Richard M. Nixon
Internal Security Act, 9/23/1950
Julius & Ethel Rosenburg, 3/29/1951
Civil Defense Act, 1951
“Underground Shelters”
McCarren-Walter, 6/27/1952
VIII. “Fair Deal” Legislation, 1945-53
Truman…
Civilian Production Administration
Many Labor Strikes…
400,000 United Mine Workers
Employment Act
Fullbright Act
Legislative Re-Organization
Presidential Succession Act
Taft-Hartley Act, 6/17/1947
Public Housing Administration, 1947
1948 Presidential Election
Alban W. Barkley, 6/15/1948
Thomas E. Dewey
Earl Warren
“Dixiecrats”
Polls…
Truman…
National Housing Act, 7/15/1949
IX. Racial Discrimination…
President’s Committee, 1946
Jackie Robinson, 4/12/1947
Larry Doby, 6/1947
Executive Order #9981
22nd Amendment
X. Entertainment
Professional Sports
Basketball Association of America
Sammy Baugh
Joe DiMaggio & Ted Williams
Joe Louis
Television…
“The Lone Ranger”
“I Love Lucy”
Movie Industry…
“Best Years of Our Lives” 1946
Carl Sandburg, 1951
Bing Crosby & Bob Hope
The Eisenhower Era #28
I. Dwight David Eisenhower, 1890 – 1969
A, Debusibm Texas
Abilene, Kansas
B. West Point, 1910-15
Mamie Geneva Doud, 7/1/1916
C. 37 Years…
Douglas MacArthur
George C. Marshall
Allied Commander
D-Day Invasion
Truman, 1945-48
Columbia University
NATO
D. Republican Party
Richard Nixon
Adlai Stevenson
II. “Modern Republicanism”
A. Overta Culp Hobby
B. Small Business Administration, 1953
C. Seaway Act, 1954
D. “Army vs. McCarthy” 4/22/1954
Edward R. Murrow
McCarthy…
E. Dr. Jonas Salk, 2/23/1954
F. “Ike” 9/24/1955
G. Housing Act, 10/2/1955
H. Federal Hourly Wage, 8/12/1955
I. Federal-Aid Highway Act
J. Election of 1956
K. National Defense Education Act, 9/2/1958
L. Labor Reform Act of 1959
M. Alaska, 1/3/1959 & Hawaii, 3/18/1959
III. “Ike’s” Foreign Policy
A. Joseph Stalin, 3/5/1953
Malenkov, 1953 – 55
Nikolai A. Bulganin, 1955-56
Nikita Khrushchev, 1956-64
B. Korean War, 7/27/1953
US – South Korean…
54,246 US troops
C. John Foster Dulles, 1953-59
“Massive Retaliation”
“Brinkmanship”
D. Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
France…
E. Geneva Accords, 7/21/1954
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
SEATO, 9/8/1954
Ike’s “Domino Theory”
Military Advisors
ARVN
National Liberation Front
“Vietcong”
F. Baghdad Pact / CENTO, 1953
G. Shah of Iran, 1953
H. 1st Hydrogen Bomb Test, 2/2/1954
Nautilus, 1/21/1954
Distant Early Warning System/NORAD
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile / ICBM
Ike…
I. CIA, 10/30/1954
J. US – China Security Treaty, 1/28/1955
Chiang Kai-Shek
K. “Open Skies” Policy, 7/21/1955
L. Suez Canal, 7/26/1956
Israel
France & England
Gamal Abdel Nasser
“Ike”…
“Eisenhower Doctrine” 1/5/1957
King Hussein
M. Hungary, 11/1-6/1956
N. Sputnik, 10/4/1957
Explorer I, 1/31/1958
Cape Canaveral, FL
NASA
Mercury Program
O. 5,000 US Marines…
P. Fulgencio Batista, 1/1/1959
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro & US
CIA & “Ike”…
Q. Khrushchev, 9/15-27/1959
R. U – 2 Spy Plane, 5/5/1960
Francis Gary Powers
Khrushchev
“Ike”…
Cold War Tension Increases…
IV. Civil Rights Movement
A. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
Earl Warren
Plessey vs. Ferguson 1896
Supreme Court…
South’s Reaction?
B. Rosa Parks, 12/1/1955
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
C. Civil Rights Act, 8/29/1957
Commission on Civil Rights
KKK…
D. Central High School, Arkansas, 9/4/1957
Orval Faubus
President Eisenhower
E. Massive “Sit-Ins” 1960
V. US Economy…
A. $44 Billion, 1952
Eisenhower…
GNP, 1960
B. “Baby Boom”
C. Conspicious Consumption…
Every Family…
Gasoline…
8 Million Cars
Televisions…
Annual Salaries
D. Suburbs
Freeway Construction
“Shopping Malls”
“Drive-In” Culture
VI. Entertainment
A. Ernest Hemingway, 1954
Pulitzer Prize, 1953
Jack Kerouac
B. Rock-n-Roll
Elvis Presley
C. “Ben Hur”
D. Television
JFK / Johnson Era #29
I. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917-63
Kennedy Family
London
Harvard University
II. Navy
P.T. Boat 109
Medal of Honor
JFK…
III. Political Career, 1946
US House of Rep.
US Senate
1. Jacqueline Bouvier, 9/12/1953
Democratic Party, 8/13/1956
Election of 1960
1. Hurbert Humphrey & Lyndon B. Johnson
Catholic Church
Richard M. Nixon
a. 1st TV Debate
Close Election
a. Robert Kennedy
5. Inaugural Address
IV. “New Frontier” 1961-63
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