Final Flashcards
President Hoover
- In 1930, the Stock market crashed, Hooverville-homeless communities thought the Great Depression would pass in 2 months, but instead lasted 10 years, friends with the w/Red Cross& decided to stop giving
-1 million Mexican Americans deported
-Sent National Guard for against the WWI, vet promised bonus
-Hoover excellent with money
FDR
30- -used the radio to communicate
-Cradle to Grave- Democratic -WPA- Work Program Association
- excellent with people, polio 39, country never knew it, had affair with secretary
Eleanor Roosevelt
1st activist 1st lady talked politics with women, exposed daughters of the revolution
Criminal and their attributes
20- - no cops, planned killing,
Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, Kate (proud of their names )
Woody Guthrie
1930, musician, played guitar
realism
Cynicism example
30- Gangster and movies , Little Caesar
War of the Worlds
Superman
30- Writer was Jewish
Shirley Temple
30- Dorothy, Wizard of Oz,
Mickey Mouse
escapsim
30- Comedy, for children, Adventure
Wizard of OZ
- shirley temple
- 30- escapism
Japanese Interment Camp
40- Japanese were enemies
-believed we were spies
-racial profiling- tell Chinese v Japs
Given 48 hours
Tuskegee Airman
40- 850 medal
-Executive Order 9981 - Integrated race- Truman
Zootsuiter
40- Hispanic, supposedly violent, army base in Arkansas in a Hispanic town. La Opinion V New York Times, they back off. Zoot suite and Lil Abner, antihero wear zoot suite
Jose Diaz and the Murder at Sleep Lagoon
40 - death of Jose Diaz, largest mass trial for murder- 17 convicted , Judge declared racist
Rosie the Riveter
1940, Housewife, secretary, factory worker, ( older& married) women work to win war, women willl get buff if work too much
Captain America
1940- Hirichiti,
Wonder Woman
1940- William Moulton Marston
Ozzie and the Harriet
-50
fam of 4 normal family
Father Knows Best
-50
nuclear family
Leave it to Beaver
- 50
- nuclear family
Betty Friedan
Writer of The Feminine Mystique- 1950