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12 Cards in this Set
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Origins of Great Depression
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WWI
Overproduction Flawed Banking System Hoover's Fiscal Policy American Isolationism Stock Market Crash Clean-up of industrialization |
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Relief
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Works Progress Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps Federal Writers & Artists Programs National Youth Administration |
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Reform
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Social Security Act
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) |
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Recovery
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National Recovery Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Act Farm Security Administration |
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Critics of new deal:
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Father Charles Coughlin
Francis Townsend Huey Long |
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Impact of new deal
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Helps workers & labor the most, women & minorities the least
Improved the lives of many Americans, but did not correct the problems revealed Encouraged union membership Despite minimal minority help, most minorities support FDR. He appoints notable African Americans to administration. |
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Legal reform:
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NAACP's primary strategy
tests on voting education victories brown v board |
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Protest:
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Freedom Rides James Meredith Albany Movement Birmingham, AL March on Washington & I have a dream speech CR Act of 1964 Freedom Summer Selma March Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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Revolution
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Black Power
Stokely Carmichael Huey Newton Black Panther Party Malcolm X Black Arts Kwanzaa COINTELPRO |
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Major elements of domestic anti-communism in practice:
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HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities)
Federal Employee Loyalty Program The Rosenbergs McCarthyism Blacklisting |
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Lasting effects of the anti-communist movement:
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Loss of creative pursuits due to blacklisting
foreign policy: creates atmosphere in America that causes foreign policy to be too overtly anti-communist Arms race |
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How anti-communism became a domestic political issue:
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Xenophobia
Fear of individual spirit Fear of non-God-fearing countries Bad relationship with Soviet Union Berlin Crisis 40's & 50's fear |
