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HY/AS3240 Making America Modern |
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A/P Ian Gordon |
Lectures 9
and 10
The Depression,
World War II, and the Promise of America
Outline
Key
Content: Crisis of US Capitalism
Transformation of America
War and Change
Reading:
William Leuchtenburg,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
the New Deal, 1932-1940. (New
York: Harper & Row, 1963), Chapter Fourteen, 326- 348.
I. Introduction
II. The Collapse of America Capitalism
1.
The Crash
III. Hoover's Response to the Depression
1. The Bonus
March
IV. The 1930s: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1. FDR and the Election of 1932
2. The Inaugural Address
3. Relief and The First Hundred Days
Banking
Agriculture
Unemployment
The CCC and
TVA
V. Thunder from the Left and the Second New Deal
1. Kingfish
2. Townsend
3. Radio Priest
VI.
Lightning from the Court
VII. Reform and The Second New Deal
1. Social Security
VIII. Marginal
Minorities and the New Deal:
Women, African-Americans, and Native Americans
IX. From Isolation to Global War
1. Continued Neutrality
2. Taking Sides
3. Preparing Defense
4. Internationalists vs. Isolationists
5. The Arsenal of Democracy
X. America
Enters the War
XI. Total War
1. The Official War
"Slavery and Freedom"
Selling the War
XII. War and Social Change
1. Big Government
2. Big
Business
XIII. Women and
Japanese-Americans
XIV. Conclusion
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