new deal policies
•Paid farmers NOT to produce certain crops to raise farm prices.
•Also encouraged them to plant products like peanuts, corn and tobacco rather then relaying on cotton.
agricultural adjustment act
•Opposed much of the new deal
•Thought government should keep hands out of state matters
•Much of the new deal policy did not affect Ga until Talmadge left office
•Preached white suppremecy
eugune talmadge
•Textile industries produced uniforms and parachutes to help support the war.
•Farms did well because people were producing as much food as possible to help feed the troops
purpose of farming
•Instituted the draft
selective service act
•Worst financial crises in US history that lasted throughout the 1930’s
great depression
•Hired unmarried men ages 17-23 as well as war veterans of all ages to plant trees in national forest, build trails and work on environmental and conservation projects.
civilian conservation corp
•Elected in 1932
•Ready to use government regulation to fix the economy
•Launched the new deal
Franklin D Roosevelt
•Savannah and brunswisk GA, two major ship yards used during WW2
purpose of shipyards
camps to train soldiers
military bases
•when the African American population moved to northern cities
•Left to seek employment and to get away with radical racial groups
great migration
•Established the social security administration
•Provided retirement pay and other government benefits for workers
social security act
•youngest member of the state legislator governor and senator
• pushed hard to get new deal programs to go through
•one of the first to say the US needed military bases in foreign countries to secure international stability
Richard russel
•In Marietta GA this place produced much of the planes the nation needed
•This plant helped to pull GA out of the great depression
bell aircraft
insect that destroys cotton
boll weevil
What was the immediate cause of the US entering WW2?
pearl harbor
•provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States
rural electrification act
•Russell's counter part in the house of representatives
•Father of the two ocean navy
•Supported to strengthen the navy
carl vinson
•Largest training bases for training soldiers
fort benning
fort Gordon
fort McPherson most notable ones
military bases
no rain
drought
•Agreed to send supplies and aid to any nation whose defense was important to the national security of the US
land lease act
•a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States
new deal
How did Roosevelt overcome isolationism?
•He supported an oil embargo act against japan
•Supported the land lease act