Exam 4 Flashcards
Stock Market Crash
-People could buy off margin
-High unemployment- 1.5m-7.5m
-U.S banks and 1300 failed
-Hooverville- homeless communities
-1m Mexican American deported
1930
-WWi vet promised bonus, set up encanment, sent national guard
1930
-FDR used radio to communicate
-Cradle to Grave-Democratic-WPA-Work Program Association
-Hoover excellent with $
1930
-FDR was excellent with people, polio @ 39, had affair with wife secretary,
1930
-Eleanor 1st activist 1st lady, talked politics w/women, -revealed racist Daughter of Revolution
1930
-Dorothea Lange hired by FDR
-Woody Guthrie-Musicians/guitar
-Realism /Diego Rivera/ Painter
1930
Surrealism-Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo
1930
Cynicism
-Pretty Boy Floyd
-Baby Face Nelson
-Machine Gun Kelly
-Kate Barker
1930
Gangster Movies
-Little Cesar
-Sound & Movies, Car
-To be someone- dream of gangster
-Orson Welles-used radio
‘‘Martian are real’’ never said it fiction
-Writer of Superman were Jewish
1930
Escapism/Horror, Busby Berkley- Cheorgraphy
-Wizard of Oz-Shirley Temple
-Mickey Mouse, Comedy, Children-Adventure
Premium-Top of box, send it for a price
1930
'’The Gigantic Forces of Depression Are Today in Retreat’’ Hoover insisted that things are getting better
1930
FDR Fireside Chat
1930
Letters to Mrs.Roosevelt
1930
Social Security Adviser Consider Male & Female Pensioners
1930
Scotsboro Trail
1930
Ethics of Living Jim Crow;An Autobiographical Essay by Richard Wright
1930
-Our Enemies ( Germany, Italy, Japan)
-Jap American Spy
-Racial profiling -Jap v Chinese
-Interment Camps-Given 48 hours
-People blamed Jews, and dehumanized to justify concentration
1940
African Americans given the base jobs
-Tuskegee Airmen-850 medals
-Executive Order 9901-Integrated race-Truman
1940
-Women became housewives, secretaries, factory workers, (older & married)
-African Americans come from South to working Class
-Women work to win war
-Concern about women return back home. too buff
1940
-Hispanic American & Zoot Suit
- Sleepy Lagoon Murder
-Jose Diaz killed, largest mass trial for murder, 17 were convicted
Judge declared racist
1940
-Army base of Arkansas in Hispanic town
-New York times describes -Inflammatory language
-La Opinion -Makes their own story
Zoot suit & Lil Abner
-Anti hero who wear Zoot suite
-Comic-everyone hate zoot suite
1940