New Deal And Wwii Chapters 33-35

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt is portrayed as a U.S. humanitarian and displayed her politics and social issues as a wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She mostly fought for women and minority groups. Many of her books include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and This Is My Story and On My Own.

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National Labor Relations Act

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a 1935 United States federal law that protects the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands.

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New Deal

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In light of the Great Depression, FDR proposed a series of relief and emergency measures known collectively as the New Deal. Through these measures, FDR intended to revive the lost prosperity of the economy by reforming other institutions and programs, by relieving the plight of the people, and thus recover the nation’s wealth.

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Reciprocal Trade Agreements

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implement reductio in tariffs. resulted in reduction of duties. response to Hawley-smoot tariff

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Relief, Recovery, and reform

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These three areas, relief, recovery, and reform, are the categories into which the New Deal was split. The Relief category was defined by the acts implemented in the area of aid to the unemployment. The Recovery category put forth measures that would help aid in the speedy recovery of areas hit hardest by the depression (i.e. agriculture and industry). Reform was a category in which the government tried to recreate areas that seemed faulty (i.e. banking system).

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WPA

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Directed by Harry Hopkins in 1935, the eight year program employed 8 million people and provided $11 billion dollars to the economy in which 650,000 miles of roads, 124,000 bridges, and 125,000 schools, hospitals, arts, and post offices were built. The Federal Arts Project created positions for artists by making positions for art teachers and decorated posts for offices and courthouses with murals.

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Social Security

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Created by the U.S. Congress on August 14,1935, this act supported old-age advantages by utilizing a pay roll tax on employers and employees. This originated from the Townsend clubs which pushed for a $200 pension. Soon the program was expanded to include dependents, the disabled, and adjusted with the inflation.

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FDIC

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This measure as the second of the banking acts enacted during Franklin Roosevelt’s first term in office, passed in Jun of 1933. The Federal Deposit Insurance Committee allowed all bank deposits up to 5,000 dollars; it separated deposit banking from investment banking.

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PWA

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governmental agency which spent $4 billion on 34,000 public works project which constructed dams, bridges, and public buildings.

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Roosevlet Recession

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Although the economy improved in 1936 and early 1937, it once again fell back in mid 1937, when industrial production and steel output declined, and unemployment statistics increased. Some of the major factors of this recession were federal policies that greatly reduced consumer income.

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Court Packing

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This proposal was announced by Franklin D. Roosevelt allowing the president to appoint new Supreme Court members for each one over 70 years of age, totaling six in all. After Chief Justice Evan Hughes’ leadership in expressing their disapproval in this plan, Congress and the American people disapproved of the action as well. This resulted in some New Dealers leaving the president’s side and humiliated President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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12/7/41

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Pearl Harbor. On the morning of December 7, scores of Japanese dive-bombers and torpedo planes flew across Oahu to bomb the ships that were anchored in Peal Harbor, and to strafe the planes parked side by side at nearby air bases. In less that 3 hours, over 300 aircraft were destroyed or damaged, and 8 battleships, 3 light cruisers, and 3 destroyers were sunk or crippled. Worst loss of U.S. arms in history.

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FEPC

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federal executive order requiring that companies with government contracts not discriminate on the basis of race or religion. It helped African Americans and other minorities obtain jobs in the homefront industry

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battle of midway

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The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. United states navy defeated Japanese attack

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Aushwitz

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most wide renowned Jewish killing center

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June 6, 1944

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D-day. battle of normandy

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Good neighbor policy

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as the policy of the United States Administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in relation to Latin America and Europe during 1933-45. "No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another"

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non-agression pact

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an international treaty between two or more states, agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them and resolve their disputes through peaceful negotiations

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appeasement

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a policy of accepting the imposed conditions of an aggressor in lieu of armed resistance

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Double V

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Victory at home, Victory abroad. showed loyalty to war effor and pushed for civil rights