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96 Cards in this Set
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Herbert Hoover in office |
1929-33 |
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Flood crisis missipi - Hoover |
1927, convinced voluntary groups in area to tackle |
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Hoover wins election |
1928, won 21m to 15m |
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Unemployment during Great Depression |
March 1933 - 16m |
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Federal Farm Board |
Help famers sell surplus food abroad 1929 |
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Federal Home Loan Bank Act |
July 1932 to lend people money who need help w their mortgages |
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Bonus Army |
June 1932
1925 gov had agreed to give veterans bonus in 1945 but veterans wanted it early March to Washington and then aprox 200k camped in capital House of Reps voted 15th June to allow early payment but 2 days later senate vetoed this cps wasn't feasible Hoover offered them $100k to get home they refused and were fears of riots even revolutionh Army called in under General Douglas McArthur and protestors chased back to camps which were destroyed and tear gas Effects killed 2 babies and although McArthur acted beyond his authority by attacking camps, Hoover backed him and lost a lot of support |
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Roosevelt elected Governor of NY |
1928 |
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FDR in office |
1933-1945 |
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No. Of Civil Servants employed under FDR |
1932 -1939 increased 420k |
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National Union for Social Justice |
1935 Father Coughlin's oppositional group to FDR |
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Huey Long assassinated |
1935 |
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How many member in 'Townsend Clubs' |
By 1935 there were 5m |
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Increase in Gov spending New Deal |
60% |
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Increase Gov spending ww2 |
300% |
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'The New Slump' |
Recession 1937-38 |
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'Good Neighbour' Policy |
By FDR to get good relations w Latin America USA wld b less dominating w Panama Canal and allowed nationalisation of Mexican oil fields in return for some deals by mainly friendship as 1930s was time of global tension |
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Neutrality Acts |
1935 - no arms sold to countries at war 1936 - no loans to countries at war 1937 - same but also no raw materials |
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War materials supplied to China |
1937 Neutrality acts ignored |
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Selective service act |
1940 Men can be conscripted during peacetime |
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'Destroyers for Bases' deal |
1940 GB get 50 'old destroyers' for US access to British bases in Newfoundland & Cardibean |
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Embargo on selling oil iron and rubber to Japan |
1937 |
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Lend-Leave Agreement |
March 1941 |
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No more oil for Japan |
1941 Japan had got 80% of their oil from US |
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Pearl Harbour |
7th Dec 194 Hawaiian Naval Base 5000 dead After this congress voted unanimously to go to war |
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Industrial production is US war time |
1939-45 it doubled |
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Consumers had x% more to spend after WW2 |
50% |
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Americans died in WW2 |
290,000 |
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22nd Amendment |
1947 All presidents now limited to 2 terms |
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Truman wins election in own right and democrats majority in congress |
1948 |
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Under Truman (dem) Republicans win majority in Congress |
1946 |
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Truman Doctrine |
March 1947 Said that the US needed policy of 'containment' to stop communism spreading, and give financial aid to any country that was under threat of becoming communist (like Turkey and Greece) |
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Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
1945 (under Truman) |
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US becomes a founding member UN |
1945 |
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US becomes member of NATO |
1949 Members promise to defend one another if there is attack from another country |
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Marshall plan |
April 1948 System of aid for war-torn Europe (stop spread of communism) |
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North Korea invades South Korea |
1950 |
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Taft-Hartley Act |
1947 to curb power of strikes Needed to be 60 day 'cooling off' period b4 a strike could start workers no longer had to join trade unions - caused by pressure from Republicans |
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Berlin blockade |
1948 - 1949 Soviets blockaded west Berlin after squabbles over currency |
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Berlin Airlift |
1948-49 |
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Yalta conference |
Feb 1945 Churchill & Stalin & FDR |
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Potsdam conference |
Summer 1945 Churchill/Atlee & Stalin & Truman |
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Second Red Scare |
1947-54 Context of the Cold War and Korean War |
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HUAC (House Un-American Activities Commission) |
1938 To identify communists |
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Federal Employee Loyalty Program |
1947 - investigation of all Government employees |
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McCarthyism |
Feb 1950-54 Claims made by senator Joseph McCarthy |
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Effects of Second Red Scare numbers |
9,500 civil servants dismissed 600 teachers lost jobs |
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McCarthy forced out of public life by censure |
1954 |
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Truman in office |
1945-1953 |
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Eisenhower in office |
1953-1961 |
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'Dynamic conservatism' |
Economically conservative but socially liberal, a belief of Eisenhower |
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'open skies' policy suggested |
July 1955 at meeting in Geneva but USSR rejected but international approval won |
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JFK in office |
1961-63 |
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Cuban missile crisis |
1962 USSR had had missiles in Cuba but they got rid of them after tense negotiations and promised that the US wouldn't try to invade Cuba agaim |
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Bay of Pigs |
1961 Failed invasion of communist Cuba Lost JFK much support |
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Communist seizes power in Cuba |
1959 |
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Soviets launch 'Sputnik' |
1957 First space satellite |
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Unemployment under JFK |
Fell from 1961-63 but by his death there were still 4m unemployed |
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USSR first manned space flight |
1961 - Yuri Gagarin JFK orders acceleration of US space programme |
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'The Other America' |
Book by Michael Harrington published in 1962 that exposed inequalities in wealth |
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'War on Poverty' |
By LBJ in 1964 |
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Economic Opportunity Bill |
Presented to Congress by LBJ in March 1964 |
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'Operation Headstart' |
Operation to improve inner city schools |
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LBJ in office |
1963-69 |
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Nixon in office |
1969-74 |
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Nixon attempts to combat inflation |
1971 cuts in income tax, ends of excise tax on cars After 90 day freeze - wages and prices were limited Devalues dollar |
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'New Right' politics |
Late '60s/early '70s Swing towards conservatism and the enforcement of traditional values as a reaction to liberalism of 1960s Nixon used this in his presidential election campaign |
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Walter Cronkite films Vietnam War critical special |
1968 |
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Walter Cronkite films Vietnam War critical special |
1968 |
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LBJ forced to raise taxes despite promises not to |
1968 |
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) |
Treaty signed w USSR that limited no. of strategic missiles they could have |
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Nixon in China |
Feb 1972 End of a 20 year long frosty relationship |
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Robert Kennedy assassinated |
June 1968 |
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5 men from CREEP caught breaking in to Watergate |
June 1972 |
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No. Of high profile resignations from Nixon's administration |
March 1973 |
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Nixon resigms |
7th August 1974 |
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Ford in office |
1974-77 |
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Ford pardons Nixon |
Sept 1974 |
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Recession caused by Ford slowing down economy |
1974-75 |
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Carter in office |
1977-81 |
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Iran hostage crisis |
Nov 1979 - Jan 1981 |
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Days Iran hostages were hostage |
444 |
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Woodrow Wilson in office |
1913-1921 |
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Waren G Harding in office |
1921-23 |
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Calvin Coolidge in office |
1923-29 |
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USA enters WW1 |
1917 |
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Russian monarchy is overthrown and replaced by communist forces |
1917 |
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Worker striking in 1919 |
1/4 - more than 3600 |
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Scandals in Harding Admin |
Harry Dougherty - forced to resign bc had taken bribes to cover up scandals Charles Forbes investigated 1923 - for defrauding gov using gov contracts Teapot Dome - 1923 - Albert Fall leased federal oil reserves |
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Coolidge refuses to allow surplus food to be sold cheaply abroad |
1924 |
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First Red Scare |
1917-20 |
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Prohibition |
1920-1933 |
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LBJ and CR |
CR Act 1964 Voting Rights Act 1965 |
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General Strike USA (fuelled 1st red scare) |
Feb 1919 - 60k striked |
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suicide rate increase during depression |
14% |
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NCC set up |
1931 National Credit Corporation Get banks to lend to smaller banks/businesses - only spent 10m/500m |
