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In the 1920's
new role for women, independent, self actualizing, working, voting (19th amenmendt). Signified changes in ideas about morality, women in the workplace, shrinking family sizes, growing economic power for women
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| Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| In 1933, employed young in reforestation, road contruction, and flood control projects. It was an unemployment relief program run through the state. It gave an individual 30 dollars a month, a place to stay, but they had to send 25 back to their famiies. |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Act |
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| In 1933, established parity prices which says farmers have to be paid a certain amount for a crop so farmers have to make money. The price is determined by looking at previous years when farmers were making money indpendently. direct payments to farmers to reduce production. This was to encourage a non over production, when surplus decreases then prices will increase. Had troubling side effects because farmers would break up land to share croppers, and would use money to buy machines to replace them. |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| In 1933, creates independent public coporation to contruct dams and power projects. It was a public project to bring electricity to parts that didnt have it. It had a revalutionary impact on the poor, and created jobs for people. |
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| National Industrial Recovery Act |
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| Establishes fair-compeition codes; section 7a guaranteeds labor's right to organize works public administration. This helped the unemployed, it regulated prices, established trade practices to create jos which regulated the econmy through consumer spending, known as priming the pump- more jobs more spending |
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| Works Progress Administration |
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| In 1935 expanded on what began in 1933 employed 8 million on public work projects. The government took money and expanded public work projects and community service projects. So artist can produce things, and it narrorated the countires history |
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| In 1935, Established unemplyment compensation and old age insurance. Its a safety net and provides for people over the age of 65 and are retired. Also provides for widows who have been paying social security. |
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| Signed by Roosevelt on February 19th, 1942. Banned more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from designated Military Areas mainly in Cali but also in Oregon, Washington and Sothern Arizona. Army prepared for forced evacuation, rounding up, and removal of Japanese Americans from communities where they had lived. Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. |
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2nd generation Japanese. Born in US. Put into camps but were American citizens. Caused a great deal of tension because they couldn’t fit in with Japanese culture or American culture. Hawaii v Mainland- Japs on Hawaii made up huge part of population and work force and gov’t didn’t want to pay to have them flown to US camps. Many served in Armed Forces… 442nd Unit.
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was a colour metaphor for
race that originated in the late nineteenth century with immigration
of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United
States, and later associated with the Japanese during the mid 20th
century, due to Japanese military expansion.
The term refers to the skin color of East Asians, and the belief that
the mass immigration of Asians threatened white wages and standards of
living.
-Significance – Revealed the animosity of Americans towards the
Japanese during World War II. (TIME Magazine picture) |
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1930s-1940s
-Truman was told that he needs to take a hard line against the Soviet
Union after the Munich conference, where certain countries met to
negotiate about how to deal with Hitler. They had agreed to let Hitler
keep Czechoslovakia if he promised not to take other countries – but
this obviously failed. This was seen as European countries appeasing
to Hitler and failing to stop his threat.
-Significance – This led to the idea that you should never appease to
an aggressor. Truman was to do what he could to NOT appease Stalin. |
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in the era where the United States was
figuring out how to deal with the Soviet Union.
-Dealt with communism and the idea that as soon as you appease an
aggressor, others will succumb like dominoes.
-Revealed the threat that the United States was feeling towards
communism and other powerful leaders such as Stalin. |
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1946
-A United States diplomat in the Soviet Union (George Kennen) wrote to
the United States to let them know what was going on in the minds of
the Soviets. He kept this assignment anonymous as signed “X”. He said
that economically, militarily (atomic bomb) we must keep CONTAINMENT
(all of nothing – enter every country that is threatened by
communism). He said we must never appease aggressors because communism
is naturally expansive.
-Significance – (Octopus picture, and red iceberg picture) This
revealed the threat that the United States was being subjected to in
fear of the expanding influence of communism. Truman believed in
containment. |
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1947
-This revealed that we had a choice between two things.
→ a world based upon the will of the majority and distinguished by
free institutions and freedom from political aggression
→ a world based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed on the
majority – suppression of personal freedoms
-Significance – Truman gave this speech in front of congress –
described Greece who was battling communism. He described it as a
battle between light (freedom from oppression) and dark (soviet union,
communism, suppression of freedoms). This led to the United States
sending money to Greece, which prevented communism. |
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| House on Un- American Ativities |
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1947-1975
-This existed heavily after World War 2 when there was much sentiment
in the United States about communism and the fear of the red scare.
This caused fear on the home front as people were worried about the
communist threat on their homelands. People were brought in front of
courts to assure that they weren’t proponents of communism or
communist spies. It not only cracked down on communists but
homosexuals and anything that was considered Un-American.
Significance – This influenced foreign policy as the US was very
careful in the way they dealed with communism. (containment, etc...)
This also effected the arms race, the build up of nuclear arms. And
ultimately and most importantly, it reflected an intense reaction at
home. People were repressed if they were suspected of communism, and a
lost of people experince infringment of their civil liberties at the expense of communist fear. |
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-1883-1946
-He was an economist who was responsible for Keynesian economics. He
believed that the government should play a major role in the economy
by creating jobs and reducing unemployment. This would then increase
the ability of consumers to buy more goods. He was not worried about
having a deficit but he just wanted people to be able to buy a lot of
goods and engage in “the good life”. He believed that prosperity of
the US was based on spending and buying consumer products.
Significance: This led to a huge economic book. It was the longest ear
of prosperity in the United States and proved that capitalism has
worked brilliantly. These products gave people more time for leisure. |
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20th century by the Englishman John Maynard Keynes.
- He was an economist who was responsible for Keynesian economics. He
believed that the government should play a major role in the economy
by creating jobs and reducing unemployment. This would then increase
the ability of consumers to buy more goods. He was not worried about
having a deficit but he just wanted people to be able to buy a lot of
goods and engage in “the good life”. He believed that prosperity of
the US was based on spending and buying consumer products.
-Significance – Same as above. It produced a huge economic book. Led
to mass consumption. People pumping more goods into the economy and it
changed the roles of the family and women and such. |
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Hempstead New York 1949
-Remove all trees and build houses on slabs, which ultimately lead to
suburbs with rows and rows of individual houses. By 1960, there were
about 17,000 houses. Everything was cleared out for these houses which
were practically identical, but a choice of four that were slightly
different.
-Significance – This became housing for mainly well off white people
and it reflected a white, suburbia, with the typical family. A husband
and wife, and two kids happily living together. |
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| Services Mens Readjustment Act |
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-1947
-This gave benefits to veterans such as unemployment pay, paid
tuition, and gave them stipends so that veterans would be able to pay
for school. It also gave them loans at very low interest rates so they
could buy a home or start a business. This minimized unemployment and
political unrest.
-Significance – all of this fuels the birth of a suburb as veterans
become homeowners. This just leads to more and more of the typical
family and neighborhood that was developing. |
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1956
-This was the growth of the highway in the United States. You could
now use your car to work somewhere that isn’t necessarily very close
to your house. In LA, there are very good road systems and people get
everywhere in their cars.
Significance – This stimulated automobile productions and also
reflected the growth of consumer culture, and people becoming more and
more engaged in “suburbia” lifestyle. |
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