UNITED STATES HISTORY II
LECTURE OUTLINE FIVE
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- CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
- flawed stock market
- "sick" industries of the 1920s
- unequal distribution of wealth
- banking problems
- policies of the Federal Reserve
- flawed international financial system (1930 Hawley-Smoot Tariff)
- HERBERT HOOVER'S RESPONSES
- 1929-1931 ("American Way")
- 1932 Revenue Act
- Hoover's traditionalism and the rejection of POUR
- Hoover's "centerpiece"--Reconstruction Finance Corporation as a "watershed" in history
- Hoover--Last of the Old or First of the New?
- Protests--Bonus Expeditionary Force and the Farm Holiday Association
- The Election of 1932--FDR'a plan and the Brains Trust
- The Election of 1932 and political realignment
- FDR AND THE FIRST AND SECOND NEW DEAL
- objectives, characteristics and important legislation in the 1st New Deal
- differences in the two New Deals
- factors and individuals that affected FDR's shift to the 2nd New Deal
- Liberty League
- "Three Foxes"
- Dr. Francis Townsend
- Rev. Charles Coughlin
- Senator Huey Long
- both New Deals had limits and defects
- DEMISE OF THE NEW DEAL
- "packing" of the Supreme Court
- conservative coalition in Congress
- interference in Democratic primaries
- Rossevelt Recession
- FDR's personal limitations
- IMPACT OF THE NEW DEAL
- expansion of presidential power
- growth of federal government and bureaucracy
- impact upon women and African-Americans
- strengthening of organized labor
- long-lasting New Deal political coalition
- DEPRESSION DIPLOMACY
- 1930s and isolationism
- FDR and the Good Neighbor Policy
- OVERVIEW OF ISOLATIONISM
- The Nye Committee
- features/characteristics of isolationism
- 1935 Neutrality Act
- 1936 Neutrality Act
- 1937 "cash and carry"
- STEPS TOWARD WAR
- 5/40--sale of surplus
- 6/40--search for bipartisan support
- 9/40--Destroyers/Bases Deal
- 10/40--the draft
- 3/41--Lend-Lease Act
- 8/41--Atlantic Charter
- 9/41--undeclared naval war
- 10/41--the arming of merchant vessels
- U.S.-JAPANESE RELATIONS
- Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Open Door Policy
- Tripartitie Pact and a partial embargo
- 7/41--total embargo including oil
- 9/41--Japanese war preparations
- 11/41--Operation Magic
- Invasion of Pearl Harbor
- THE HOME FRONT DURING WORLD WAR II
- financing the war
- National War Labor Board
- FDR and the fate of reform
- The election of 1944
- FDR's rhetorical commitment to liberalism
- G.I. Bill of Rights
- Henry Wallace and Harry Truman
- Seeds of Change
- A. Philip Randolph
- CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
- WARTIME DIPLOMACY
- recap of the Atlantic Charter
- thorny issues among the Allies
- postwar national self-determination
- Joe Stalin and the status of a second front