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Rep: Calvin Coolidge
Dem: John Davis
Pro: Robert LaFollette
Coolidge wins 382-136-13 |
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| 1928. This is also known as the Pact of Paris. This was signed by every major country on Earth (62 Countries). They pledged to outlaw offensive war. Problem because there was no enforcement of this and it lulled the US into a false sense of security. |
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1. Industrial activity at an all time high
2. Unprecedented business boom
3. National wealth soared
4. America went on an unprecedented buying spree
5. We begin to use credit (installment buying)
6. Am. begin to feverishly speculate on the margins
7. Optimism ran riot and people think prosperity will last forever
8. Farmers are the only ones who don't share in this group |
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Rep: Herert Hoover
Dem: Alfred Smith
Hoover wins 444 to 87
The year Hoover takes office, the economy collapses. |
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| Causes of the Great Depression |
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1. Overproduction- industry and businesses expand too rapidly and produce more than can be used or consumed
2. Underconsumption- there is no way ppl can use everything
3. Unsound financial practices- Hawley-Smoot Tariff, over abundance of loans, stock market investing, overspending with credit
4. Economic anemia abroad
5. Mother Nature |
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| How Hoover Combats the Great Depression |
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1. Agricultural Marketing Act
2. He begins as confident and optimistic
3. Reconstruction Finance Corporation
4. Started limited federal works projects
5. 1931 moratorium
All of these actions are too little, too late. |
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Rep: Herbert Hoover
Dem: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Issue: GD, unemployment, the banks are on the verge of collapse
Roosevelt wins 472 to 59 |
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| Criticisms of FDR and the "New Deal" |
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1. Costs too much
2. Gov't has become too big and too powerful
3.President is too powerful
4. FDR shattered the 2-term tradition
5. Court-packing scheme
6. Gov't is becoming to socialistic
7. Modern welfare state was established--ppl are too dependent on the gov't
8. It didn't work |
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| Praises for FDR and the "New Deal" |
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1. It relieved the worst of the crisis
2. It insituted lasting reform
3. It saved lives
4. It gave ppl dignity and self-respect
5. There's a lasting legacy
6. There are hidden benefits
7. Our form of gov't lasted
8. FDR was a good president |
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| This was the foreign policy under FDR and basically said that we will help countries if they want help, but that we won't meddle in their affairs otherwise. |
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| This act gave Philippines more self government and said that we would free them in 10 years. |
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| This was set up by ND Senator Gerald Nye to figure out why the US got involved in WWI. They decided that it was because of the arms makers and the US insisting on too many neutral rights. |
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| 1935-1937 Neutrality Acts |
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1. Amer. may not sell munitions to any belligerent
2. Amer. may not make loans to any belligerent
3. Non-munitions from Amer. will be sold and picked up on a cash-and-carry basis only
4. Americans may not travel on belligerent ships |
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| Basic Strategy of Roosevelt and Churchill during WWII |
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| They meet on a ship in the Atlantic and decide that they should smash Hitler first since he poses the greatest immediate threat to the world and nations around the world. |
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Ours:
291,500 deaths, 1,000,000 casualties total (incl. deaths), and
$35 Billion spent on the war
Global:
22 million deaths, 34 million wounded (add'l), and
>$1 Trillion spent on the war |
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| Treatments of Grermany after the war |
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1. Divided into 4 zones of occupation- US, England, France, and Russia
2. Berlin was in Russia's zone, but was to be jointly occupied
3. Steps would be taken to disarm Germany, dismantle war industry, destroy the Nazi party, reintroduce democratic institutions, and begin war criminal trials at Noremburg
4. Net result= 2 Germanies |
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1. US occupied Japan until 1952
2. We disarmed her, dismantled war industries, Westernized, and held war criminal trials
3. The Emperor was allowed to stay on the throne while the US was there
4. Japan has been a firm US ally ever since then |
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Rep: Alf Landon
Dem: FDR
FDR wins 523-8 |
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Rep: Wendall Willkie
Dem: FDR
FDR wins 449-82 |
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Rep: Thomas Dewey
Dem: FDR
FDR wins 432-99 |
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Rep: Thomas Dewey
Dem: Harry Truman
Dewey was expected to win, but slacked off.
Truman wins 303-189 |
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| Truman's domestic program |
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June 1950-July 1953
This war was started under Truman and ended under Eisenhower.
Costs:
Ours: 55,000 deaths, 144,000 casualties, $18 Billion
Global: >1 million communist casualties, 410,000 UN casualties
Net Result of the war: 2 Koreas |
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| South East Asian Treaty: This was a counterpart to NATO, but it was feeble and didn't support Vietnam |
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| 1957. US aid to countries in the Middle East if they are threatened by Communism and want aid. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| This was in 1954. This reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson and the separate but equal doctrine. It began desegregation of schools. |
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| Probably the best known scandall in the US. It led to Nixon's resignation as president. |
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US involvement there increases over time, but we never declared war.
Costs: 58,000 deaths, >300,000 wounded, $141 Billion
Jan 27, 1973 Nixon announces pulling out-- March 29, 1973 Last troops leave |
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