2. Identify Eleanor Roosevelt as a symbol of social progress and women’s activism.
What role did Eleanor Roosevelt fulfill as the President’s wife?
2. How did she help advance the cause of social progress and women’s? Give specific examples. rights

3. Herbert Hoover

4. Why was Hoover unpopular?

5. Word Splash - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Polio
Democrat
Distant cousin to Teddy Roosevelt
Distant cousin to Eleanor Roosevelt
Harvard Graduate
Assistant Secretary of the Navy

6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Why do you think the people liked FDR?
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Why do you think the people liked FDR?
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Why do you think the people liked FDR?
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

9. NOTES on FDR’s New Deal

10. Domestic Policy: The New Deal
Brain Trust – people hired to find solutions to the depression.
“Bank Holiday” – closed banks to stop bank runs

11. Bank holida

12. 3. New Deal = programs to provide immediate Relief ($), stimulate Recovery (jobs), and economic Reform (to prevent future problems)
Fireside Chats – inspirational / uplifting speeches on the radio
Eleanor went on tours to promote her husband’s programs
She did the leg work for him :P

13. Purposes of the New Deal
Relief: to provide jobs for the unemployed and to protect farmers from foreclosure
Recovery: to get the economy back into high gear, “priming the pump”
Reform: To regulate banks, to abolish child labor, and to conserve farm lands
Overall objective: to save capitalism

14. New Deal Programs Program Initials Begun Purpose
Civilian Conservation Corp
CCC
1933
Jobs for young men to plant trees, build bridges, parks, etc.
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Built dams to provide cheap electric power to 7 southern states
Agricultural Adjustment Act
AAA
Paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops
Public Works Administration
PWA
Built ports, schools, and aircraft carriers
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
FDIC
Insured savings accounts in banks
Works Progress Administration
WPA
1935
Employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, etc.
Social Security Act
SSA
Set up a system of pensions for the elderly and unemployed
Fair Labor Standards Act
FLSA
1938
Minimum wages and maximum hours

16. c. Supreme Court declares many programs unconstitutional
d. can’t fire justices … FDR proposes adding more!!! (915)
i. FDR accused of “Court-Packing”

17. 4. Legacy: restores HOPE … but FAILS to stop the depression

18. Are there any similarities?

19. Quick Review: How did the war start in Europe?
1933 Hitler was elected; economy weak in Germany, he promises to restore their greatness
Europe adopted “appeasement” & gave Germany land because no one wanted another war
1939 Germany invades Poland
The Allies declare war against Germany

20. Isolation → Pearl Harbor → US in WWII

21. Foreign Policy: Isolationism  war
Germany invades Poland!
Neutrality Acts: withhold weapons and loans from ANY belligerent (fighting) nations
Lend-Lease Act: US can aid any nation whose defense is vital to US security
sell weapons to Allies
Angers Germany

22. 3. Japan invades Manchuria! Dominates Asia
2. Japan, Italy, and Germany had become the Axis Powers, signed the Tripartite Pact
3. Japan invades Manchuria! Dominates Asia
Violates Open Door Policy - (vowed not to colonize)
US est. oil embargo (refuse to trade)
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 – “A date which will live in infamy”
2,400 Americans killed, 1,200 wounded, 300 planes damaged… in less than 1 hour

23. US DECLARES WAR!

24. Pearl Harbor

25. Pearl Harbor

26. Pearl Harbor

27. P e a r l H a r b o r

28. New deal

29. Pearl Harbor Video