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Ch 25 - The Great Depression and New Deal
Review: AMSCO Ch 24

Detailed outline I: [|APUSH Great Depression.pdf]

Detailed outline II: [|APUSH New Deal.pdf]

Study chart:

FDR and the New Deal [|slideshow]

__Tues 3/6__


 * pp. 989-992, 996-1004** (skipping for now section on Depression culture)

1936 presidential election, "economic royalists" and FDR's populist campaign, Gov. Alfred Landon (R-KS), Union Party, New Deal Coalition (industrial workers and organized labor, black voters, immigrant and ethnic minorities, farmers, senior citizens), 1937 Judicial Procedures Reform Bill aka FDR's "court-packing" plan, Constitutional Revolution of 1937 (pro-New Deal decisions in //West Coast Hotel v. Parrish// and //National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation//), "a switch in time saves nine," Congressional anti-New Deal coalition, 1937 recession aka "Roosevelt Recession," Keynesian economics (deficit spending for fiscal stimulus), revised 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, FDR's 1938 primary campaign against conservative Democrats

Wagner Act's impact on organized labor, John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers (UMW), "Big Bill" Hutchison, labor's civil war (craft vs industrial unions), Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO = UMW + garment worker's unions [ILGWU and Amalgamated Clothing Workers]), United Automobile Workers (UAW), January 1937 Flint "sit-down" strike, GM settlement, Big Steel recognizes the CIO, "Memorial Day Massacre" at Republic Steel, the New Deal and African-Americans, FDR's "black cabinet," Marian Anderson sings in front of the Lincoln Memorial, 1934 Indian Reorganization Act aka "Indian New Deal," reform of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, women and the New Deal, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, list of New Deal legacies and limitations (FDR saves capitalism but can't solve unemployment?)

Ch 26 - WWII
Review: AMSCO Ch 25 1930s foreign policy, isolationism, and the causes of WWII (detailed outline): Course and consequences of WWII at home and in foreign policy (detailed outline):

WWII war chart:

Isolationism to Pearl Harbor [|slideshow]

WWII "Big Three" diplomacy [|slideshow]

__Weds 3/7__


 * pp. 1021-1024 "The Arsenal of Democracy"**

Secretary of War Henry Stimson, War Production Board (WPB) [later superseded by Office of War Mobilization (OWM)], Donald Nelson and financial incentives to mobilize industry, "cost-plus" military procurement contracts, Office of Price Administration (OPA), rationing and price fixing, (2nd) National War Labor Board (NWLB), wage fixing, labor's "no strike" pledge, UMW's May 1943 coal strike, 1943 Smith-Connolly Act, Revenue Acts of 1942/1943, income taxation and withholding, defense bonds/War Bonds, 1940 Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft), draft boards and deferments


 * pp. 1034-1039**

WACS, WAVES, SPARS, Office of Censorship, Office of War Information (OWI) and its "[|weapons on the wall]," "victory gardens," Edward Murrow, Hollywood and WWII, Japanese internment, Executive Order 9066, //Korematsu v. US//, wartime migration and urbanization, Sun Belt, Rosie the Riveter vs Wendy the Welder, [|Norman Rockwell] (gag)

__Thurs 3/8__


 * pp. 1012-1021**

Manchuria, Manchukuo, 1937 (Second) Sino-Japanese War, Rape of Nanjing, sinking of the USS //Panay//, Benito Mussolini, //Der fuhrer// Adolf Hitler, German expansionism, appeasement, Spanish Civil War, Gen. Francisco Franco, Abraham Lincoln Battalion,

//From lecture today// Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Export-Import Bank, Reciprocal Trade Act, FDR recognizes the USSR, Hoover/FDR's "Good Neighbor" policy towards Latin America, renunciation of the Roosevelt Corollary and Platt Amendment, Nye Committee, "[|merchants of death]," peace movement's strikes and marches, [|Neutrality Acts] (1935-1939)

FDR's Quarantine Speech, //lebensraum//, //Anschluss//, Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, British PM Neville Chamberlain, Munich Conference, "peace for our time," Winston Spencer Churchill, Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, 9/1/1939 invasion of Poland, //blitzkrieg//, Maginot Line, the "phony war" of winter 1939-1940, Dunkirk withdrawal, Vichy France, //Luftwaffe//, Battle of Britain, "the Blitz" (of London), FDR's promise of "all aid short of war," destroyers-for-bases deal, FDR's $8 billion 1940 defense appropriation, 1940 Selective Training and Service Act, 1940 presidential election, Wendell Wilkie, FDR's pledge to Bostonians, Lend-Lease ([|H.R. 1776]), America First Committee, Operation Barbarossa (1941 German invasion of USSR), Battle of the Atlantic, Atlantic Charter, "shoot on sight," FDR's embargo on US-Japan trade, Prime Minister Gen. Tojo Hideki