GD/ND Flashcards
Henry Cabot Lodge
-Leader of the moderate republicans
-Head Senator of Foreign Relations
-Lodge Reservations
Sacco and Vanzetti
-trial for robbery and murder
-“Un”americans
-anarchist
-poor immigrants
-convicted and executed 7yrs
Scopes Trial
-(monkey)
-teaching theory of evolution?
-tennessee
-defense - Darrow
-prosecutor - William Bryan
Charles Lindbergh
-flies solo across the Atlantic (spirit of St.Louis)
-member of American first committee (sympathetic to Germany)
Stock Market Crash
oct 29, 1929 - start of GD
Bonus Army
-Large group of WW1 veterans who marched on DC for repayments of their “Bonus” (Final straw of Hoover)
FDR’s Election - GD/ND
1932- Hoover(R) - I?
- FDR(D)(VP:J Garner) -> WINS
1936- FDR(D)(VP:J Garner)-(I) -> WINS
- A. Landon (R)
FDR’S Famous Quotes
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” - GD/ND
“Promise a New Deal to the American People” - GD/ND
“Yesterday, Dec 7th 1941, a date which will live infamy” - WW2
Frances Perkins
-1st Female Cabinet Member
-Sec. Of Labor
Mary McLeod Bethune
-Highest African American?
-Unofficial
-1st Robert Weaver 1960’s (idfk.)
20th Amendment
-Changes date of inauguration
-LAME DUCK AMENDMENT
21st Amendment
-Repeals prohibition
Huey Long (anti new dealers)
-“Share our Wealth”
-Tax on rich, give to poor
Father Coughlin (anti new dealers)
-“National Union for Social Justice”
-Youth to work
Dr.Townsend (anti new dealers)
-preliminary social security
S.E.C (ND Legislation)
prevented inside trading (Kennedy)
F.D.I.C (ND Legislation)
insured deposits
A.A.A (ND Legislation)
paid farmers not to farm (tax on processors)
C.C.C (ND Legislation)
put young men to work on open air camps
N.I.C.A (ND Legislation)
provides industrial recovery
League of Nations
International security body
Lodge Reservation
14 items that looked to “Republicans”, treaty of versailles? (idfk.)
Harlem Renaissance
rebirth of African American culture originating in Harlem comes with jazz age
Criticisms of Hoover
-Hoovervilles; Shack or Group of shacks
-Hoover Flag; pocket turned inside out (displays employees)
-Hoover Blanket; Old newspaper used as a blanket
FDR’s WW2 Elections
1940 - D-FDR(I)(VP: H.Wallace) - WINS
- R-W.Willkie
1944 - D-FDR(I)(VP: H.Truman - WINS
- R-Thomas Dewey
3 Advisory Board
Cabinet; Bi Partison
Blank Cabinet; Unofficial African American - Bethune
Hopkins; Scholarly
Joe Kennedy Sr.
- JFK’s Father
- Head of SEC
Harry Hopkins
- member of brain trusts
- led many agencies
- FERA (federal emergency relief agency)
Famous Celebrities
Clark Gable + Judy Garland
Schechter Case
Rules NIRA unconstitutional
Butler Case
Rules AAA unconstitutional
N.I.R.A
National Industrial Recovery Act
A.A.A
Agricultural Adjustment Act
C.C.C
Civilian Conservation Corps
F.D.I.C
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
F.E.R.A
Federal Emergency Relief Act
National Labor Relation Boards (ND Legislation)
collective bargaining
Fair Labor Standard Act (ND Legislation)
min. wage, max hr, no child labor
Social Security (ND Legislation)
old age pension aid to dependent kid, no unemployment insurance
Tennessee Valley Authority
- modernize tennessee valley river
- create jobs along tenn river
Sacco and Vanzetti
- Circus like trial
- “Un”- american
Prohibition - 18th Amendment
illegal to buy, sell, transport alcohol
- bootlegging
- noble experiment
- volstead act (defined an intoxicating beverage as anything that contained more than one half of one percent alcohol)
Women/Women’s Suffrage - 19th Amendment (Anthoney Amendment
granted women the right to vote
John L. Lewis
United Mine workers (will appear later)
Talkie - Jazz Singer
Jolsen
Isolationism
stay out of world affairs
Washington Naval Conference
a meeting between most major world powers
Causes of GD
- lack of government regulation
-the stock market crash of 1929 - the collapse of world trade due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
- government policies
- bank failures and panics
- collapse of the money supply.
Hoover as President
- elected 1928, inaugurated 1929
- stock market crash oct 1929
- mid term election 1930
- refused direct hand-out / government $
- wanted rugged indiculaisitc strong self reliance
- hoover needs to make jobs
public work project
boulder dam (hoover dam)
criticism mounts
hoovervilles, hoover flag, hoover blanket
reconstruction finance corp
hoover gives loan to banks, insurance companies and industries
bonus army
large group of WW1 veterans who march on D.C for repayments of their “Bonus”
Suffer
1) Women get laid off, men replace them?
2) children, sell anything, education goes down
3) men have to support/try, would leave, might not come back
- farmers; dust bowl - part of midwest “dust”, due to overplanting -> droughts
Steinback
Grapes of Wrath
New Deal
FDR’s Program of domestic (within the country) reform
-1st new deal: 1932 - 1935 -> relief and recovery
-2nd new deal: 1937 - 1938 -> reform
3 r’s
New Deal Legislation
Glass Steagul Act - creates Fedreal Deposti Corp.
Securities and Exchange Commision - prevent insider trading led by Joe Kennedy
Upton Sinclair (anti new dealers)
runs for governor of california
Eleanor Roosevelt
most active 1st lady
mexicans
come over to work fields, great migration
John Collier
head or bureau of indian affairs
C.I.O
committee of industrial organizations
WW2
ends great depression
suprememe court packing plan
add 1 justice for every justice over 70 that would not retire
