History Lecture 12

Front 1

FDR

Back 1

3 R's
democrat
4 terms
cheated on cousin/wife
blamed hoover for dperession and for being a socialist, destroyed hoover's career

Front 2

what FDR did in office

Back 2

march of dimes
fireside chats
new deal
civilian conservation force
securities and exchange commission
glass stregall banking act
social security act
public works
repeals 18th amendment

Front 3

fireside chats

Back 3

speech FDR gave wekly

Front 4

New Deal

Back 4

FDR
relief, recovery, reform
controversial

Front 5

civilian conservation force

Back 5

hires 3 million americans and has them go work in the forests
relief
FDR

Front 6

securities and exchange commission

Back 6

monitors wall street
makes sure there are no crooks
supposed to prevent other crash
recovery
FDR

Front 7

glass steagall banking act

Back 7

FDR
US gvt taking over banks
dictates who gives loans and and what interest rates to use

Front 8

public works administration

Back 8

FDR
set aside 3.3 billion to give to construction companies to hire workers to build roads
helps infrastructure

Front 9

neutrality act

Back 9

FDR
passed by congress
we wont enter war or help anybody
FDR signed it

Front 10

quarantine speech

Back 10

FDR
anti-hitler
we must stay clean from nazi disease

Front 11

Lend-Lease act

Back 11

FDR
signed with churchill
gives allies military help by letting them use our supplies
amounts at $50 billion

Front 12

destroyer for bases agreement

Back 12

FDR
lend 50 destroyer ships and we get access to your ports
passed in 1941 after nazis have already taken over 1/2 of europe

Front 13

Atlantic charter

Back 13

we informally side with allies
extends lend-lease program to soviet union
post war goals between FDR and churchill
completely secret

Front 14

tripartite pact

Back 14

between axis powers
if one of the countries is attacked, the other 2 must declare war.
FDR tries to provoke Japan to attack US

Front 15

McCollum Memo

Back 15

draft written in 1940 by McCollum telling how to provoke japan to attack US.
oil embargo
help china
put missiles in philippines and fill pearl harbor with military personnel.
kept secret until 1990's

Front 16

pearl harbor

Back 16

pushes US into WWII
First major attack against US
green light for FDR to enter war
it was set up - military was sitting ducks

Front 17

WWII

Back 17

axis are enemies
japanese were making chinese their guinea pigs
kamikazee in japan
mcarthur led allied forces in the pacific
eisenhower in charge of allied forces here

Front 18

SS St Louis

Back 18

filled with jewish refugees from germany
FDR turned them away because we were "neutral"
had to go back to germany and were killed