All about the New Deal
Louisiana Senator, New Deal critic, created Share Our Wealth program which would guarantee everyone an income of $2,500, tax the rich and cap individual wealth at $4 million dollars; ran for president, was assasinated in 1935
Who is Huey Long?
wrote "The Souls of Black Folk" in 1903, viewed the "separate but equal" status as an acceptable position for Blacks, and was active in the Pan-Africanism movement
Who is W.E B DuBois?
organized in September 1940 to oppose America`s entrance in World War II;grew to be the largest US peace movement in history claiming 800,000 members
What is the America First Committee?
The first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, drafted the Social Security Act
Who is Frances Perkins?
In 1947, created the Department of Defense, US Air Force and the CIA; established a National Security Council to oversee secutiry policy in the executive branch
What is the National Security Act?
British economist, believed government should spend in economic depressions, even if it created budget deficits; Bretton Woods Conference participant who help establish postwar monetary system and the World Bank in 1944
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
Founder of UNIA, United Negro Improvement Association, originally from Jamaica, wanted to take African Americans back to African on his Black Star Line ship
Who is Marcus Garvey?
issued in 1942, this authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security, resulted in 110,000 Japanese, 300 Italians and 5,000 Germans sent to internment camps
What is Executive Order 9066?
Founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in 1923, supported William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes Trial, faked her own kidnapping
Who is Aimee Semple McPherson?
also known as Wheeler-Howard Act, pushed tribal governments to adopt U.S.–style governance, offers federal subsidies to tribes that adopt US-style constitutions replace their governments with city council–style governments
What is the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?
sought to eliminate overproduction by paying farmers to throw away their products and kill livestock; Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in US v Butler in 1933, before FDR came out with new version in 1938 (Second New Deal)
What is the AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Act?
President of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, threatened a March on Washington until FDR passed Executive Order 8802, banning discrimination in defense industries in 1941
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
February 1945 meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe
What is the Yalta Conference?
a radical anarchist immigrant who fought against capitalism and promoted full equality for women during the Progressive Era
Who is Emma Goldman?
component of Immigration Act of 1924, placed quotas on immigrants coming from Asian, Eastern and Southern European countries; passed due to nativist attitudes and pseudoscience such as Eugenics
What is the National Origins Act?
Detroit Radio Priest, initially supported New Deal legislation, but became a critic of FDR, preached higher inflation and became anti-semitic
Who is Father Charles Coughlin?
First African American soldiers to successfully complete training and enter the Army Air Corps (US Air Force) to become pilots in WWII
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
California physicist, head of the secret Manhattan Project, where three atomic bombs were created and tested
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
FDR's social secretary, who he met while serving as secretary of the Navy during WWI, and proceeded to have an affair with
Who is Lucy Mercer?
in 1956, created a national system of transportation to spur economic growth and aid military operations in case of a nuclear attack
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
Required industry executives to create fair competiton codes and plan production, employment and wages for their sector; created NRA (National Recovery Adminstration) to enforce rules; Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in A.L.A Schechter Poultry Corp v US in 1935
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act?
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance and art centered in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
code name for the allied invasion of German-occupied France by American and British troops, took place on D-Day, led by General Eisenhower
What is Operation Overlord?
wrote "What Every Girl Should Know" in 1922, founded her own clinics in NY to help poor women get birth control
Who is Margaret Sanger?
in 1938, prohibited child labor, helped establish the 40-hour work week, set overtime pay, and federal minimum wage policies
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?