HIST: New Deal & WW2

Unit 15 & 16

First New Deal

Proposed by FDR Expanded the federal authority especially at the executive level. Aimed to stabilze banks and establish government agencies

Emergency Banking Act

1933  Congress provided funds to restore financial stability to banks threatened with bankruptcy

Bank Holiday

part of bank stabilization, suspended all banking operations

National industrial Recovery Act

1933 suspended antitrust laws and encouraged business to collectively agree on output, prices, and working conditions

National Recovery Administration

formed to enforce the National Industrial Recovery Act

Agricultural Adjusment Act

1933 Established production quotas for farmers. farmers paid to destroy anything they had produced over the quota. Part of the First New Deal

Agriculture Adjusmtent Administration

agency was created to enforce the agricultural adjusment act

Civilian Conservation Corps

created employment opportunities for young males and allowed them to send money back to their families

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Direct grants to local relief agencies. Part of the First New Deal

Public Work Administration

Created jobs, built roads, schools, hospitals during the great depression. Apart of FDR’s New Deal

Tennessee Valley Authority

Created jobs, specifically building of dams provided electricity in isolated areas. Named after a US state but helped bring development to a majority of southern states. First New Deal

21st Amendment

1933 Amendment that ended prohibition.

“Hundred Days”

Idea refers to the first 100 days of a presidents term established by FDR and is when he did the majority of his first New deal

Second New Deal

The second wave of federal economic and social reform by president FDR.

Rural Electrification Agency

Ceated in result from the second new deal, brought electric to rural american farming communities.

Works Progress Administration

Governement agency that provided jobs for citizens during the great depression

Social Security Act

1935 Act that garunteed unemployment insurance, old age pensions, aid to people with disabillties, families with dependent children and the elderly and poor. No universal health insurance

Fair Labor Standards Act

1937 Established first minimum wage child labor regulation in interstate commerce

Court Packing Plan

1937 Plan by FDR to add up to six new federal court judges. Was considered a power grab by FDR and the plan was never approved

Political ad from the new deal era. symbolizes the optimism that Roosevelt had given people with his federal policies

Political ad from the new deal era. Criticism about roosevelt by saying that his federal programs were too much like socialism.

Political ad from the new deal era representing the “old” nine justices on the supreme court bench showing how they will soon be replaced in the court Packing plan

Political Ad from the new deal era showing the court Packing plan being proposed to Congress. It can also show the unpopularity of the plan by the court justices appearances.

Japanese Interment Camps

anuary 1942, the Justice Department authorized the FBI to search the homes of all non-us citizens of Japanese descent. Many Japanese Americans were citizens and had their rights violated.

Ex Parte Endo

1944: Mitsuye Endo filed a writ of habeas corpus. SC ruled that internment of a US citizen was unlawful if proven loyal. Mitsuye Endo was a second generation american citizen

Korematsu v. United States

Japanese American who challenged the internment. Court ruled that internment was legal. Evidence had been withheld that would have changed the outcome

Rosie the Riveter

Propoganda poster & character created during WW2 to encourage women to work.  poster was not all that popular during the war. Norman Rockwell created a different version that was more popular

Executive Order 8802

1941 Executive order that stated No discrimination in government jobs based on race. First step by the federal government toward equal opportunities

Executive order 9066

1942 Specific military areas designated for Japanese people who were thought to be spies at this time

Baby Boom

Increase in birth rates after the end of WW2. 

Rosie the Riveter Ad that was not popular during the war, but became the most famous version in recent history. Was promoted from the Westing Internal company image 1942

2nd Rosie the Riverter

Rosie the Riverter ad that was the most famous during the war was made by normal Rockwell and published in the Saturday Evening post in 1943.

White Women

 For the firat time this group of people they had a choice. Moved out of the fulltime workforce. Married younger. Divorce rates decline. class mobility and the baby boom