The Depression

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The Depression
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," lyrics by Yip
Harburg, music by Jay Gorney (1931) They used
to tell me I was building a dream, and so I
followed the mob, When there was earth to plow,
or guns to bear, I was always there right on the
job. They used to tell me I was building a
dream, with peace and glory ahead, Why should I
be standing in line, just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it
race against time. Once I built a railroad now
it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once I
built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet,
and lime Once I built a tower, now it's done.
Brother, can you spare a dime? Once in khaki
suits, gee we looked swell, Full of that Yankee
Doodly Dum, Half a million boots went slogging
through Hell, And I was the kid with the
drum! Say, don't you remember, they called me Al
it was Al all the time. Why don't you remember,
I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime? Once
in khaki suits, gee we looked swell, Full of
that Yankee Doodly Dum, Half a million boots
went slogging through Hell, And I was the kid
with the drum! Say, don't you remember, they
called me Al it was Al all the time. Say, don't
you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare
a dime?
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• Herbert Hoover 1928-1932
• Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1929

• Bonus Army 1932
• Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932-1945

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• Alphabet Soup Agencies
• Townsend Plan
• Father Coughlin
• Huey P. Long

• New Deal
• Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.)
• National Industrial Recovery Act (N.I.R.A.)
• Tennessee Valley Authority (T.V.A.)
• Agricultural Adjustment Act (A.A.A.)

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• Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.)
• Harry Hopkins
• Social Security Act 1935
• Wagner Act 1935
• C.I.O (Congress of Industrial Organizations)

• John M. Keynes
• Keynesian Economics

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Foreign Policy Between the Wars

• Herbert Hoover
• London Conference 1930
• Manchuria
• Manchukuo 1931
• Stimson Non-Recognition Doctrine
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Isolationism

• Good Neighbor Policy
• Hitler
• Mussolini
• Francisco Franco
• Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis
• Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
• Munich Agreement 1938

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• Stalin
• Vichy France

• Winston Churchill
• Battle of Britain
• Atlantic Charter

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World War II

• Battle of Midway June, 1942
• El Alamein October, 1942
• Stalingrad 1942-1943
• Normandy Invasion June, 1944
• Fair Employment Practices Commission

• Thomas E. Dewey
• Chain Kai-shek
• General Joseph Stillwell
• Stalin
• Yalta Conference February 1945
• Charles De Gaulle
• United Nations

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• Dwight Eisenhower

• Harry S. Truman 1945-1952

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Beginning of the Cold War

• Harry S. Truman 1945-1952
• Stalin
• Iron Curtain speech 1946
• Winston Churchill
• Truman Doctrine 1947
• Marshall Plan 1947
• George Marshall

• Tito
• N.A.T.O. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• Baby Boom
• G.I. Bill of Rights
• Fair Deal 1945
• Employment Act of 1946
• Taft-Hartley Act

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• Henry A. Wallace
• J. Strom Thurmond

• Dixiecrats
• Thomas E. Dewey

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• Chiang Kai-shek
• Mao Tse Dung
• Douglas MacArthur
• N.A.T.O.
• H.U.A.C. (House Un-American Activities Committee)
• Alger Hiss
• McCarran Internal Security Act 1950

• Joseph McCarthy
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Adlai Stevenson