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Power of federal gov’t expanded

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The government literally spent so much money that it got out of the Depression

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“Um no”
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike
Gov’t can take over industries if threatened by strikes
(1943)
FDR uses this a year later w/ railroads

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“We won’t strike”
But wages were frozen
Some coal strikes

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Froze prices, wages, rents

Set rations

Prevent inflation

Like tires, gas, sugar, meat

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Manage War industries

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FDR knows we’re gonna be pulled into the War

Meets w Churchill

Outline of postwar life

Self-determination

No territorial expansion

Free trade

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It’s NOT “allright” to exclude African-Americans from political parties so they won’t vote Supreme Court case

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A lot of new industries were broken into thanks to the shortage of guys
#wagegap
Rosie the Riveter

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WAY fewer casualties
Civilian economy grew WHILE fighting the war
Made a lot of money trading with Britain before getting involved
Late start -> renewed vigor! Fresh troops! Not sick of death!

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All of the stuff we had to make for the war effort boasted our economy!
And it actually worked better because we didn’t go all Isolationist after

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Ok about Germany: apparently bc japan moved first, it wasn’t REQUIRED to declare war

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Draft but with guys 25-35
Suck it Isolationists (outnumbered)
1.2 million troops trained

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FDR is literally my fav he tricked the isolationists into thinking that increased military spending would be useful if the Western Hemisphere was attacked

And yeah it would be but that wasn’t his point

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We got into a mess w/ WW1

lots o’ American boys were killed

Plus look at what happened after that war

America is a melting pot

Ethnic ppl don’t wanna go against their countries

Ireland is bitter abt England tho lol

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LOOK @THE STUDY GUIDE FOR STUFF HAPPENING @ THIS TIME

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LOOK @THE STUDY GUIDE FOR STUFF HAPPENING @ THIS TIME

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US still not in the war

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also this is probably illegal so don’t snitch

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“By 1945, 16 million Americans had served in uniform”

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Men aged 18-40
Needed even though people flooded to enlist after Pearl Harbor

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Internment camps (see Kenji by Fort Minor, it’s rly good and if you need a break it’s relevant so)

Also the a sad thing is not a single Japanese-American was convicted of doing anything unpatriotic

African Americans:

Could only be a sailor if they were cooks

Army was segregated

In the US it wasn’t much better

Italians and Germans were segregated at home too

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At first had some pretty boring and basic jobs

THEN we get to work in manly man jobs, like in shipyards and aircraft factories

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We made more destroyers than JAPAN EVEN OWNS

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Boeing: MASSIVE bomber fleets capable of destroying entire cities

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Rapid expansion

We have all sorts of new technology too

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So while the Japanese fired the first shot, we can take them any day.
FDR is gonna feed the fire in the direction of Germany which is by far the more impressive threat

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Declaration of War against Japan

Then on Dec. 10 Hitler declares war on the U.S.

IM NOT EVEN KIDDING HE LITERALLY DID NOT NEED TO DO THAT

Big mistake buddy

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Okay so apparently FDR saw a Japanese attack coming

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Okay so apparently FDR saw a Japanese attack coming

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Didn’t think it would be close to home tho, completely shocked

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1940 : we only had like 190,000 guys in the army... which was pretty weak so we start to fix that

FDR doubles the size of the Navy  July 19 1940

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The general in charge almost immediately released he had “awakened the sleeping giant”

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Happened bc Japan was all mad because the white guys were destroying their dreams of expansion (need stuff like rubber,oil)

They expected the Americans to basically do nothing

Also didn’t get the 3 large carriers they wanted to destroy
Didn’t get rid of fuel and stuff around Pearl Harbor

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Didn’t do anything
Japan:lol these losers r powerless, bye b! we’re going to do whatever we want now

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At this point Hoover was still in office and he had like no foreign policy, so he just minded his own business

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expand the darn post to see em

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1931- Japanese attack Manchuria bc honestly China is a mess right now Jiang Jieshi was kind of an idiot

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Don’t balance the budget
Spent more on those public works and relief, things turned around

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Also gov’t is curbing spending for some of the fake jobs they pulled out of thin air

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People were spending less cause they had to pay the tax

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A recession? In the Great Depression? (1937-8)

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A recession? In the Great Depression? (1937-8)

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Yeah the economy started slowing down again

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Tries to get more Supreme Court justices, because he can’t appoint any rn, but everyone is just like wtf man we see you (he would’ve been able to add SIX ppl)

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We’re gonna take your money now, bc dang we need to invest it and make more money, but if you live long enough you will get it back

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what

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We gonna TAX the rich people and EVERYBODY (every family) gonna get at least 5K a year
1935: I’m going to be PRESIDENT
(Then he got killed by an assassin) whoops

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He promised income for the elderly, and that got to be so popular that FDR made his plan better & passed the Social Security Act

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One of those wackadoodles on the radio

No seriously this PRIEST went all Jew hating and Facist before the Church said to stfu

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FDR appealed to minorities, which would get the Democrats their votes for A LONG TIME

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This was only benefiting one area....

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Public Works Administration giving $$ to state govt to fund a bunch of construction stuff so people can work
Tennessee Valley Authority jobs for ppl in a rly poor area, they’d have power lines now woo

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Okay if you wanna know abt the others you should’ve done ur chart guys

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Okay if you wanna know abt the others you should’ve done ur chart guys

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Okay just think abt this one...
the fed gov’t is insuring y’all’s deposits in the bank

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Not allowed to invest bank money in any ole Industry

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Note: Roosevelt used the radio to make sure a voice of reason was heard 

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Note: Roosevelt used the radio to make sure a voice of reason was heard 

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a bunch of looneys on the radio aren’t representative of what’s happening for real

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No more Prohibition y’all

I mean yeah, it’s good bc you get to take the edge off but also tax revenue
(21st Amendment)

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Hundo Days/ First New Deal okay I’m making the 2nd one green too 

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Hundo Days/ First New Deal okay I’m making the 2nd one green too 

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Bank Holiday — we r closing the banks bc you heathens don’t understand how to deal with urselves

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20th Amendment — pres gets in office quicker (Jan 20)

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He literally had no plan of action for ending the Depression, but man was he gonna try

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In comes FDR!

I’m gonna get y’all your booze!

Help the jobless

New Deal

Gov’t not gonna spend so much money

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After Bonus March, most people are just like wtf Hoover

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Vets want their federal bonus in advance

Come to Washington DC

Get killed or tear gassed by Hoover

No one likes Hoover now!

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Let’s support big businesses!

Wealth did NOT flow to the common people because NO ONE HAD MONEY TO BUY THE STUFF THESE BUSINESSES WERE PRODUCING

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okay dudes we will pay you to not sell that grain, got it?

Well this in theory might have helped but the problem was SO bad and the program wasn’t strong enough to fix anything

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Wow! Everyone’s economy sucks!
Let’s make this the HIGHEST TARIFF EVER
only problem is we aren’t buying from anyone, so they get mad and return the favor

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Well everyone is used to laissez-faire in his defense

State gov’t should help people

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Farmers were growing too much stuff, natural problems too... never rly experienced the glory of the roaring 20s

Gov’t not protecting the consumers... businesses running wild

Dumb USA making Europe pay back their loans, when they were suffering hard af from WW1

🌎 😢 (worldwide depression lol get it?)

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People already bought a lot of the essentials, but companies were cranking out products like they were in great demand

Layoffs

Domino effect (ppl don’t need cars -> auto industry drops -> all of the other industries producing stuff to make cars suffer -> layoffs -> less money & repeat)

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Wall Street Crash

Why did it crash?

Rich got richer, but everyone else... not so much

Everyone buying stock bc of what they THINK it’s worth

Oh yeah, they also couldn’t afford it so there’s that

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Pull yourself up and go get a job you loser

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however we do start supporting the Allies by trading and giving them money