History Exam 3- 1302 Flashcards
(49 cards)
What did FDR call for in the 1932 election?
balanced government
criticized hoover for gov spending
Glass-Steagall Act
barred commercial bank
National Industrial Recovery Act
set standards in wages, production,and prices
Civilian Conservation Corps
unemployed work on projects
set unemployed young men to work on projects like forest preservation, flood control, and the improvement of national parks and wildlife preserves
Agricultural Adjustment Act
- raise farm prices
- paying farmers to plant less
- destroy crops already in fields
New Deal housing policy and previous government policy
- priv bank mortgage
- fed gov built low-rent housing
- gov involved in housing market
New Deal programs Supreme Court overturned
NRA & AAA
Reason 1930s workers demanded more than better wages
american factories at the ouset of the new deal were mini dictatorships in which unions were rare; workers could be beaten by supervisors and fired at will, and management determined the length of the workday and speed of the assembly line
“Share Our Wealth”
Huey Long- confiscation of most of the wealth of the richest americans to finance grant of 5,000 and a guaranteed job and annual income for all citizens
What did the Second New Deal focus on?
economic security
Works Progress Administration
New Deal agency that helped create jobs for those that needed them. It created around 9 million jobs working on bridges, roads, and buildings.
Social Security Act of 1935
- system of : unemployed insurance
- , old age pensions,
- aid to disabled, poor, etc.
Supporters of FDR during election of 1936
Reason FDR wanted to change the balance of Supreme Court
fear invalidate the second new deal
John Maynard Keynes overturned earlier economists ideas of what?
- sanctity of balanced budgets.
-argued large-scale government spending was necessary
Eleanor Roosevelt’s impact on position as First Lady
she transformed the role of first lady, turning it into a position with no formal responsibilities into a base for political action
Reason stigma emerge around public assistance
black workers to least generous assistance programs
How did the New Deal help to expand racism/segregation?
African americans were excluded from new deal programs
The Popular Front
communist sought to ally w socialists and new dealers in movements for social change. specifically, by urging reform of the capitalist system rather than revolution
The Scottsboro case
9 young black men were arrested for the rape of two white women
- despite the weakness of the evidence against the ‘scottsboro’ boys and the fact that one of the 2 accusers recanted, alabama authorities put them on trial 3 times and 3 times won convictions
What ended the Great Depression?
WW2; american men sent to the war front, leaving jobs in defense and war industries
Difference between FDR and his predecessors on foreign policy
internationalism vs isolationism
Japan’s overseas activities during the 1930s
invaded china in 1931 and 1937 to expand its military and economic power
Fascism
a radical form of totalitarian government in which a dictator uses propaganda and brute force to seize control of all aspects of national life (like nazism)
