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    Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States and he was also the only president to have ever been elected 4 times. Roosevelt delivered the speech Pearl Harbor Address on December 8, 1941, a day after Japan attacked the island Oahu in Hawaii. The audience of the speech was the Vice President, Members of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and subsequently the whole nation. One of the things that made the speech so powerful was the…

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    “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,”Roosevelt said with passion and ferocity. Franklin D. Roosevelt was saying this in his “Inaugural Address,” to try and end the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a dark and fatal time for the people of the United States. Roosevelt spoke with such a power in his voice, and he tried to wage war with the Depression just with his words. Later, he actually started physically doing something about the Depression and trying to end it. What did the…

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    way the authority heretofore granted under Executive Order No. 8972, dated December 12, 1941, nor shall it be construed as limiting or modifying the duty and responsibility of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” Franklin D. Roosevelt. A n excerpt from the speech that Franklin D. Roosevelt when giving his speech about the executive 9066. The Speech that was spoken, Roosevelt explains why and how he states to the people that the Japanese have to go to internment camps. This order also allows…

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    The Aamerican people were in poverty, living in places called Hhoovervilles. Standing in lines for just small portions of food while the children were out begging on the streets for food. Franklin Roosevelt was elected as president. The New Ddeal was just made.The Roosevelt Aadministration was ineffective in helping the people deal with the Ggreat Ddepression. It was ineffective because when spending was at its highest so was unemployment. In the 2 graphs unemployment reached its highest at 1933…

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    A mouse or rat, drawn to heavily resemble the racist stereotypes of Japanese appearance, is trapped and presumably killed by a mousetrap labeled “Material Conservation”, with the caption of the poster being “Jap Trap”. The message is simple; if Americans wish to put a stop to the “yellow peril” after Pearl Harbor, then they should conserve more of their goods and be less wasteful. This War War II propaganda poster was created by the United States Information service, and was probably put into…

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    In 1928 Herbert Hoover became president. He believed and trust that the United States was coming out of poverty. In eight months after Herbert hoover became president the United States was facing a crisis.” The stock market, had crashed, the bottom had fallen out of an already weakened housing market because the market agricultural goods stalled”. (Shultz) The trading goods fell quickly leading factories to slow production and the United States entered into the Great Depression. Hoover wasn’t…

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    refer to this experience as the transition from innocent childhood and adolescence to adulthood. The Catcher in the Rye outlines a troubled adolescent named Holden Caulfield as he makes this painful transition. The Catcher in the Rye is considered J. D. Salinger’s most successful novel. In the novel, the main character Holden Caulfield takes a two and a half day journey through New York City after he gets kicked out of his third private school, Pencey Prep. “He (Holden) represents as a…

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    The majority of the America population knows that there is a time period in the America history that the economy falls badly, which is known as “The Great Depression”. Although people know, but not many of them can tell what actually cause that and how bad it goes. In fact, the Great Depression is not initiated by one reason, it was touched off by multiple reasons. The resulting effect of Great Depression is unimaginable. People at that time suffered so much during the Great Depression. Asking…

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    Eleanor was helping FDR by “ …evaluating the New Deal”(GWU 3). The New Deal created new jobs for millions of otherwise unemployed Americans. Eleanor wanted to make sure that all Americans got the same workload. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower declined to reappoint Eleanor to the 1953 American delegation to the United Nations, she “devoted her considerable energy to the American Association for the United Nations, where she made sure that union leaders were involved in carrying…

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    During the ominous day of October 29, 1929, many people had a great darkness looming over them which started in the form of the Stock Market Crash. This date later became known as Black Tuesday. As the stock market continued to deteriorate, around 400 banks shut their doors in the faces of people. According to Document 1, poverty became rampant as the unemployment rate rose to a staggering 20 percent by 1932. Millions of people became homeless and many were forced to reside in Hoovervilles,…

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