Dates
The year that Congress enacted the GI Bill
What is 1944?
This prominent individual initially opposed the GI Bill’s exclusion of citizens
Who is FDR?
The GI Bill provided soldiers with _____
Home + Business Loans, Unemployment Compensation, College + Vocational Training, and Employment Services
The blue discharge is defined as
An administrative discharge that involved neither a court martial nor a prison sentence
This document called for the United States to actively support the fight against communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The year the Veterans Bureau became the Veterans Administration (VA)
What is 1930?
He was an anti-New Deal Republican and he led the VA
Who is Frank Hines?
The VA issued a policy barring any soldier from receiving GI Bill benefits if they had been dishonorably discharged because of
Homosexual Acts or Tendencies
The problem with receiving a blue discharge
It carried a stigma of homosexuality (even if the soldier didn't commit that offense)
In 1956, he invoked his 5th Amendment rights when appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Who is Paul Robeson?
The year that the VA issued their policy banning dishonorably discharged veterans from benefits
What is 1945?
A congressman who drafted legislation to help soldiers who were undesirably discharged from the military
Who is Frank Doyle?
In the military, what were the three categories that homosexuality was broken down into:
the violent offender, the “true”/ “confirmed” homosexual, and the “casual” homosexual?
Discharge was also given to soldiers who were
Drug addicts, bed-wetters, alcoholics, and African-American soldiers who challenged segregation
In 1953, Eisenhower stood before this organization during his “Atoms for Peace” speech
What is the United Nations?
The first year that the GI Bill accounted for 15% of the federal budget
What is 1948?
These 3 presidents appointed/reappointed Frank Hines as the head of the VA
Who is Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover?
Law with provision that soldiers must be convicted by a civil or military court to be disqualified from benefits
What is the World War Veterans' Act of 1924?
A soldier with a dishonorable blue discharge who received GI Bill benefits might face what consequences from the VA
End of benefits, repayment of welfare, civil suit, and/or imprisonment
A campaign that led anti-communist crusades across the country and fueled hysteria of a "red scare"
What is McCarthyism?
The year that Frank Hines was appointed head of the Veterans Bureau
What is 1923?
Some of the members of Congress who favored a liberal GI Bill (Name at least two)
Who is Congresswoman Edith Rogers, Congressman B.W. Kearney, Congressman John Rankin?
A Bill that would “enable soldiers to upgrade undesirable discharges" if they could demonstrate that their character had improved
What is the Doyle Bill?
Name at least two issues that Hines’s and others feared about giving out too much social provision
Believed it "was degenerative for the recipients", "would induce many citizens to give up all effort to get private employment", and would lead to the lacking of strong “masculine identification"
Bert the Turtle helped kids learn this phrase:
What is Duck and Cover?