1932
- Bonus Army
- Election of FDR
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt - background
- Eleanor Roosevelt - background
FDR's and ER's use of media
- First inaugural filmed with sound
- Fireside chats
- Newsreels
- Hollywood and 'how to' films
The New Deal
- Philosophy and practice
- The 'Hundred Days' and early Alphabet Agencies
- Banking reform
- Bank holiday and reorganization
- FDIC
- AAA
- CCC
- FERA
- TVA
- NRA
Other agencies
- NYA
- REA
- PWA
- WPA
Relief turns into Reform
- Social Security Act
----Old-age pension; aid to families with children; aid to disabled; unemployment insurance
- Wagner Act
----Labor unions have right to collective bargaining; National Labor Relations Board
- Fair Labor Standards Act
----Minimum wage; maximum hours; child labor outlawed
Important New Dealers
- Harry Hopkins
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Frances Perkins
- Lyndon B. Johnson
The New Deal and minorities
- AAA and southern sharecroppers
- Hispanic-American Alliance fights discrimination
- Discrimination against Asian-Americans
- Native Americans: Tribal Reorganization Act of 1934
New Deal critics
- Father Charles Coughlin
- Dr. Francis Townsend
- Senator Huey Long
Other noteworthy items from the 1930s
- CPUSA
- Labor
------Strikes
------Creation of CIO
- Dust Bowl
- Monopoly board game created
- Amelia Earhart lost
- First panda exhibited in the U.S.
- First drive-in movie theater
Criminals
- Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- John Dillinger
FDR and Latin America
- Good Neighbor policy
- Remove troops from Laitn American countries
Toward war in the 1930s
- U. S. policy of isolationism
- Nye Commission report
- Spanish Civil War: fascism versus communism
- Alliance between Germany and Italy
- Japanese aggression in Asia
Brief timeline (see text for more information)
1938:
Britain offered appeasement
Germany invaded Czechoslovakia
1939:
German-Soviet Union non-aggression pact
Germany invaded Poland
Winston Churchill inaugurated correspondence with FDR
1940:
Germany struck northern Europe & Scandinavia
France fell to Nazis
Japan signed alliance with Germany and Italy
Bombing of Britain began
1941:
Congress approved Lend-Lease Act
Germany invaded Soviet Union
Allies signed agreement with Soviets
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
U. S. declared war on Japan
Germany & Italy declared war on U. S.
The home front
- Victory gardens
- Rationing
- Role of women
- Military and non-military
- Bracero program
- Internment of Japanese-Americans
- German and Italian POWs
Ending the war - 1945
- Yalta Conference- February
- Death of FDR- April
- Harry Truman accedes to presidency
- Victory over Germany- May
- Potsdam Conference- July
- Victory over Japan - August
- Manhattan Project
Truman's "Fair Deal"
Domestic Issues
Helping veterans return to civilian life
GI Bill
- Education benefits
- Veteran's Housing Authority
-----Low cost loans
Labor issues
Employment Act - created Council of Economic Advisers
Taft-Hartley Act - restricted power of labor unions by outlawing "closed shop"
Racial issues
- Truman ordered integration of armed forces
- Truman first president to address the NAACP
- League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) created
- Targeted segregated schools in Texas
1948 presidential election
- Democrats: Harry Truman
- Republicans: Thomas Dewey
- Dixiecrats: Strom Thurmond
International Developments
- Creation of Israel
- Creation of the United Nations
------Eleanor Roosevelt and the International Declaration of Human Rights
The Cold War Begins
- Tension between US and USSR
- Soviet development of the A-bomb
- Economic aid
- Descent of the "iron curtain"
Containment Policy
- Truman Doctrine (philosophy)
- Marshall Plan (economic aid)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio (military alliance)
- Application of containment to Greece and Turkey
Berlin blockade and airlift
National Security Act
- Dept. of Defense
- Central Intelligence Agency
- National Security Council
-------NSC-68
Turmoil in Asia
- Revolution in China
- Korean Conflict
The Cold War at Home
- House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
- Alger Hiss case
- 1950 Internal Security Act
- - - -Communist = traitor
- Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s"Declaration of Conscience"
- McCarthyism
- Rosenberg case
- Senator Richard Nixon’s "Checkers Speech"