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| head of electric company, ran in 39 in states. To promote his company, one company bought stock for the other company to raise their values, it was false values. when one company failed the others failed as well. |
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| clever campaign, never actually telling what he would do as president. Created new deal. |
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| elected president the year before the depression. Hoovervilles shacks created outside of the city by people who lost their homes. |
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| Attempted to restore consumer power by reopening banks, restore financial power, end prohibition, put tax on liquor. |
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| was a work relief program for young men from unemployed families, established on March 21, 1933, by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, it was designed to combat unemployment during the Great Depression. |
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| the largest New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting most every locality in the United States, especially rural and western mountain populations. |
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| Public works administration, It allowed $3.3 billion to be spent on the construction of public works to provide employment, stabilize purchasing power, improve public welfare, and contribute to a revival of American industry. |
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| Tennese valley, hydro electric dams provide electricity for many people for the first time. |
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| national recovery Admin. The NRA allowed industries to create "codes of fair competition," which were intended to reduce "destructive competition" and to help workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours. It also allowed industry heads to collectively set minimum prices |
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| Security Exchange committee, regulated exchange of stocks |
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| "Pump" the economy and by things even if you dont have the money to do it, because eventually the economy would grow. |
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| Draft codes of competition for businesses. Rules of what people could and couldn't do. |
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| hard workers that pulled through, in the past. |
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| was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as “the dean of American composers.” |
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| an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid, almost sculpted paintings showed everyday scenes of life in the United States |
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| Guthrie's musical legacy is sizable and includes hundreds of songs, ballads and improvised works covering topics from political themes to traditional songs to children's songs |
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Helped the elderly, $200 pension a month.
Problems with plan: where did the money come from? took 10% of income in US. |
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| Popular radio announcer, supported FDR but slowly turned against him, anti semitism (anti-jewish) Nationalization of the banking system to give more money to more people. |
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| Politition- King fish of Louisiana, major threat to FDR, save our wealth plan: guaranteed an annual income of 2100 to every worker, and a house valuing $5000, to do this: 100% tax on incomes over a million dollars. |
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| flirted with the communist party to solve the great depression, street corner politition, overhaul of economic system, distruibution of wealth destroy corporate power. |
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| Begun as the independent organ in response to the Workers Party of America take over of The Liberator. By the late 1930s, it strongly backed the Communist Party USA's Popular Front movement as a response to the rise of fascism and the Spanish Civil War. |
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| Radical dissent 1934 leftist individuals who are interested in reforming US culture. |
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| the idea that he Communist party should ally itself with Socialism |
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one of the great achievments of the New Deal, a national system of old age insurance
funded by tax on workers wages and employees |
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| outlaws company unions, creates NLR board, ensures that workers have free choice in bargaining agent. |
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| the head of the facist party |
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| "today germany tomorrow the world" |
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| French and english get together with hitler to stop his german expansion. France and english agree that hitler can have chech. |
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| German-Soviet Non-Aggression Act |
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| germans and soviets do not fight. germany invades poland, something Soviets would have stopped if not for the pact. |
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| America to stay at home and mind their own business |
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| No real way to not be involved in foreign affairs. |
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| keep america out of the whole business of WW2 |
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| Germany, Japan, and Italy. An alliance between the three |
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| editor of TIME and LIFE magazine |
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| the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and satisfying grievances through rational negotiation and compromise, thereby avoiding the resort to an armed conflict which would be expensive, bloody, and possibly dangerous |
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| the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British West Indies. |
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| Creator of big league chew, he mad agreements with the u.s. army to send over in rations for free so when the soliders came back they were so used to having Big League chew that they would want some and go out to purchase it. |
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| Writer for Time and Life magainze's was one of the first reporters on the beach during D-Day and world war 2. |
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| Office of War Information |
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| It coordinated the release of war news for domestic use, and, using posters and radio broadcasts, worked to promote patriotism, warned about foreign spies and attempted to recruit women into war work. The office also established an overseas branch which launched a large scale information and propaganda campaign abroad. |
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| was the U.S. civilian agency responsible for the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War I |
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| meeting of the allied leaders, talk about ending the war, post world war. |
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| created from the soviet union |
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| at the slightest sign of Soviet insurrection, the US would be there to stop it |
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created east and west Germany. Western Germany had a democratic form of government. Eastern Germany was
Cut off access to Berlin. America doesn’t honor this and begins to air lift supplies to Berlin |
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| the notion to expand Communism |
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| was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for the countries of Western Europe, and repelling communism after World War II. |
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| An alliance between US, France, West Germany, and small countries. It stated that if any of the countries needed help, the others would be there. The US’s military would be there as a last resort. |
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| is the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the verge of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome. aka nuclear weapons |
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| As President, he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System |
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| expanded in the 1950’s. Allen Dulles- first director if the CIA |
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| The country was divided, between north and south. North invades south to create a united government. China thinks that the US is trying to take them over, and gets freaked out |
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| House Un-American Activities Committee- ALGER HISS, a high ranking state official, accused of being a Communist. The HUAC puts him on trial and people testify against him, and they found out that it was true |
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| spies who for the Soviet Union, brought to trial and convicted |
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| McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of intense anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War.[1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government and elsewhere. Ultimately, McCarthy's tactics and his inability to substantiate his claims led to his being discredited and censured by the United States Senate. |
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| provided subsities to attend school, mortgage funds to buy houses |
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Provided money to make multi-laned highways
Linking country (North to South & East to West)
Encouraged automobile companies
Sets off trucking industry
Encourages service industries
Mc Donald’s/ Hardy’s/ Gas Stations/ Convenience stores,Encouraged leisure |
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International telephone & telegram
Moves to hold different companies
Buys bakeries/ A-list Rent a Car/ Hotel Chains/ Insurance Companies
Makes “corporate umbrella” |
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Merged in 1955
2 separate unions
Fought for quite a while (terrain, power)
AFL-more skilled workers
CIO-less skilled
Decided to create a truce
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After WWII goals was to move to suburbs
Get out of big cities and rural life
Split-level house-big yard-picket fence-lawn mower
Attempt to recapture flavor country life away from conditions of city
Attempt to escape industrial conditions
See suburban home as a place to display consumer goods |
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Explosive growth of children from (1945-1959/60)
Happened because of WWII
Men came home and they got busy
Creates a generation of children
Economic effect too
Children become part of consumerism too |
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| Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care |
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Bible for middle class mothers
need to put children first
Training children by positive reinforcement
Subtle sense of instant gratification of needs and desire become part of our culture |
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| Plots focus on boys and their adventures, Traditional american family and values |
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Reflected sort of conformity of period
Cowboys ended up running off by themselves and their horses |
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Slapstick comedy
Little Ricky being born was most popular show
Ethnic tension-constant theme
Irish women and Latin men
Trying to go beyond gender stereotypes |
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Writer about social life
Becomes a critic
Rock and Roll
Black rhythm and blue combined with Jazz |
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Elvis the Pelvis
Will only film the waist up |
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Movies stars-James Dean
Spit in face of middle class conformities |
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| volunteers went to 3rd world countries to help them with economic advancements (Kennedy administration) |
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| banning the testing of new nuclear advancements (Kennedy administration) |
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| They mandated segregation in all public facilities, with a "separate but equal" status for black Americans and members of other non-white racial groups.Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms and restaurants for whites and blacks |
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The leader of the Civil Rights Movement
Assassinated in spring ‘68 |
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| Brown v. Board of education |
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| Law suite against segregation. Separate but equal. This trail said that separate was unconstitutional. This trial became the basis for many legal actions from then on. |
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| test situation aimed towards public transportation segregation. Rosa Parks, on a Montgomery bus, sits in the front where blacks weren’t allowed. The boycott begins and the transportation system loses money. Went on for a year, eventually successful. |
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| 250-500,000 people MLK made his “I Have a Dream” speech. |
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| 250-500,000 people MLK made his “I Have a Dream” speech. |
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| "Black Panthers" expresses a range of political goals, from defense against racial oppression, to the establishment of separate social institutions and a self-sufficient economy (separatism), and even racial supremacy and ethnocentric hegemony. Thus, it is associated with varying degrees of racism |
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| Series of riots in the African American communities in big cities. |
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| late 1960’s, a group of Radicals. Black separation |
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| Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique |
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| Critisized womens’ life in the 60’s. |
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| is a belief in the right of women to have political, social, and economic equality with men. It is a discourse that involves various movements, theories, and philosophies which are concerned with the issue of gender difference, advocate equality for women, and campaign for women's rights and interests |
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| Development of sophisiticated weapons, going away from guerilla warfare |
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| Vice president to Kennedy, becomes President after Kennedy’s assassination |
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| Governments in Southeast Asia would turn to Communism if the US didn’t stop them |
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| Tactic used in Vietnam to kill plants trees leaves etc in usage of the American Army |
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| Another ex. Of how US technology wasn’t ready for the war |
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| South Vietnamese who were sympathetic to Communism who blend in with the Vietnamese people, so troops wouldn’t be able to find them |
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| Students for a Democratic Society, SDS was the organizational high point for student radicalism in the United States and has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse. Participatory democracy, direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current national student activist groups |
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| Rock and Roll concert that lasted 3-4 days, celebration |
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Youth international party- counterculture
Presidential organization to make fun of politics in America |
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| a military campaign conducted between 30 January and 23 September 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong, or National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, and the North Vietnamese army, or People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies during the Vietnam War. |
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| In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president of the United States to succeed incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti-Vietnam War platform |
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| another candidate, anti-hippie |
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| 1968 Democratic convention |
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| The purpose of the Democratic National Convention was for the election of a suitable nominee to run as the Democratic Party’s choice for the post of President of the United States of America. With events in the United States crashing against the American population faster and faster, 1968 quickly developed into a year of rage. All across America emotions ran high |
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•Anti-war, anti-hippie
•Defended the “silent majority”
•Once in office was pro-grnt. Controlling economy, guaranteed annual income. |
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| Accommodation w/the Soviets |
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•Nixon’s guys attempt to ‘bug’ democrat headquarters at Watergate
•Get busted for money laundering,…
•So Nixon was to be impeached but he resigned instead |
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| Succeeded Nixon and pardoned Nixon for Watergate. |
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1976 election. He was a Christian and spoke about his religion. Tried to get away from anti-war arguments.
•When he became pres. Human rights was very popular. |
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| prices were rising faster than wages |
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revolution in Iran heats up and the leader falls. The Shao (leader) fled to the US
•Iran took hostages as a threat in order to get the Shao back
•Carter doesn’t know what to do and makes US look weak. → Shows “American decline” |
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1980 Republican pres.
•Went from actor to governor to pres.
•Ealier a democrat but in 1950’s began moving to Republican side |
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| groups: committees devoted to cutting back welfare. |
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| group was disturbed by hippies, sexual revolution, etc… “Family Values” was their inspiration |
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| (1980 election, sort of middle class to traditional values) |
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| Head of the Soviet Union in 1985. A reformer in the SU. “openness” in the Soviet system; tries to make it more liberal |
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| Labor movement in Poland (biggest communist nation besides the Soviet Union) Labor strikes in Poland, turning against the government. Revolution against Communism |
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| Divided East and West Germany. Torn down to symbolize the end of the Communist Union. |
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