Unit 3 Flashcards
Unemployment as high as 25% had to do with what major event after ww1?
The Great Depression
Many groups tried to help the less fortunate, state and local gov, private charities and churches, all raised money for the poor, soup kitchens, and bread lines.
Good will efforts
Groups of homeless people living together
Hoovervilles
Prices and profits dropped, dustbowl moving eroded topsoil
Plight of farmers
Why did Hoover say “prosperity is just around the corner”
The Great Depression, people were depressed.
What did Hoover do to combat the depression?
Created jobs through gov spending, protect domestic industries, gov credit given to banks, lowered taxes, favored low interest rates, federal loans for banks, farmers and industries
What was a Hoover blanket
Newspaper
What was a Hoover hog
Jack rabbit
What was a Hoover flag?
Inside out pockets
Army of veterans who camped outside the White House demanding money
The bonus army
Who led troops to take care of the bonus army
Douglas MacArthur
A doctrine opposing gov interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintain of peace and property rights
Laissez-Faire economics
Did the new deal mean more or less gov?
More gov
FDRs staff of economists, college professors, social workers, lawyers, and other experts in their fields
The Brain trust
What are the three rs?
Relief (for the poor), recovery(for the economy), reform (for the system… prevention)
The following were criticisms of what?
Too expensive, too much gov power
The new deal
“The king fish”, former gov of Louisiana, opponent to FDR and the new deal,
Huey long
Name of FDRs talk radio show
Fireside chats
Insured everyone’s savings deposits so that even if your bank failed you could get your money back
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Program designed to help out farmer
AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Act
Helped out the unemployed by giving federal money to local gov to make more jobs
WPA- works progress administration
Built dams to control the Tennessee river valley, created jobs and electricity
TVA- Tennessee valley authority
Program for single unemployed 18-25 year old men to work and get food, clothing, shelter, schooling
CCC- Civilian conservation corps
For small businesses to cooperate instead of compete, keep all businesses going
NRA - national recovery administration
Plan for retirement for elderly, something for people to fall back on
Social security
Why did unions adopt the sit down strike strategy
Can’t bring in new people, workers stayed on line, very effective, gave workers more power,
Appointed as an advisor to Roosevelt on matters of civil rights, nicknamed the First Lady of the struggle
Mary McCleod Bethune
Very outspoken, longest serving First Lady, especially concerned with racial issues
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDRs plan that involved adding justices to make the Supreme Court “less old”
Court packing, through the judiciary reorganization bill
Belief that the state is everything and the individual citizen is nothing usually based on racism, militarism, and nationalism
Totalitarian gov
Germany (hitler)
Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin)
Italy (Benito Mussolini)
Are all examples of what
Totalitarian govs
Political movement started by Mussolini, stresses national unity, racist system, state is all powerful,
Fascism