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