1. Regents Review

2. The Twenties The “Roaring Twenties” Red Scare Palmer Raids
Sacco and Vanzetti Case

3. The Twenties
Automobile assembly line mass production Increased industry mass consumption speculation boom (people invest a lot of money, hoping to become rich)

4. The Twenties Scopes “Monkey” Trial—Evolution vs. Science
New restrictions on immigration
Harlem Renaissance

5. The Great Depression (1929 – 1940)
Stock Market Crash
Dust Bowl
Hoovervilles

6. Roosevelt’s “New Deal”
Government steps in to manage economy
Creation of jobs
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Brain Trust
“Fireside Chats”

7. Wagner Act (1935) Stimulated development of and protection of unions
Protective collective bargaining

8. Schechter Poultry v. U.S. (1935)
Even during a national crisis, Congress can’t give President more powers than granted by Constitution

9. United States v. Butler (1946)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) found unconstitutional

10. FDR’s Court-Packing Plan (1937)

11. Was the New Deal Successful?
Unemployment decreased
Full employment not achieved until WWII when production increased
FDR elected to 3rd and 4th term
22nd Amendment (1951): President limited to two terms

12. WWII
US tried to stay neutral (Neutrality), but became increasingly economically involved in helping Allies
Lend-Lease
Cash and Carry
Destroyers for bases
Pearl Harbor
Dec. 7, 1941

13. Japanese Internment
Korematsu v. United States (1944)

14. Post-War Recovery and the Beginning of the Cold War
Iron Curtain
Containment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Marshall Plan (1948)
NATO (1949)
Collective Security

15. Truman’s Loyalty Order (1947)

16. HUAC
House Un-American Activities Committee: attacked writers, directors, actors

17. Spies Among Us? Alger Hiss Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Helped form U.N.
Arrested as Soviet spy
Executed for selling info to Soviets about the atomic bomb
Serious doubts about guilt

18. “McCarthyism” Senator Joseph McCarthy
Claimed hundreds of Commies had infiltrated the gov’t

19. Korean War (1950 – 1953) Containment  domino theory
China got involved in war  MacArthur wanted to use atomic bomb on them to end Comm.
Failure

20. Brown v. Board of Ed (1954)
Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)  separate is NOT equal
Segregation illegal
Sparks Civil Rights movement

21. Kennedy’s Presidency (1961 – 1963)
New Frontier
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
The Space Race

22. Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society”
To eliminate poverty and social injustice.

23. Great Society Legislation
Civil Rights Act of 1964: Discrimination is illegal
Voting Rights Act of 1965: Ended poll taxes and literacy tests
24th Amendment (1964): Poll taxes are illegal