Week 2/5 through 3/9

 

Wheeler Howard Act

  • “One Size fits all”
  • The US wanted Indians to adapt to our style
  • If they argued they would be able to make their own government

Ag Adjustment Act

  • Started 1933
  • Helped farmers stop working
  • Regulated marketing
  • Eliminate unfair practices in fields
  • Helped farmers, and didn’t help the sharecroppers

Food, Drug, and cosmetic act

  • Started in 1938
  • Set u laws set by Congress
  • To overlook safety of food, drugs, and cosmetics

FHA

  • Provides mortgage insurance on loans
  • Single family
  • Multi-homes
  • Hospitals
  • It was successful, but it ended because there wasn't enough money

Federal Securities Act (FSA)

  • Started in 1933
  • First federal legislation used
  • This regulates the stock market
  • Two parts of act security act and exchange act

Public Works Administration

  • Spending billions on construction jobs
  • Built (schools, hospitals, and dams)

FERA’S

  • Established Civil War Admin (Relief projects)
  • Ended in 1935 because taken over by SSA

Civilian Conservation Corp

  • 1933-1942
  • Helped men ages 18-25
  • Provided working with little knowledge
  • Prime war fighters

National Youth Administration

  • Established 1935 (part of work progress administration)
  • Aubrey Willis Williams
  • Training
  • Office jobs
  • Helped 2.1 million students
  • Got taken over by the government in 1943

Department of Agriculture

  • Helped small farmers with loans
  • Hoping people would self-sustain
  • Took pics of farm areas in poverty
  • Successful? Yes and no (saved far, but wasn't enough money to keep running)
  • Ended in 1944 (not needed anymore due to other organizations)

Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Established working hours
  • Minimum Wage($7.25 States may differ)
  • Overtime (40 hours or more, pay required, youth is exceptional, 1 ½ original wage per hour)
  • Still around today (allows for paid leave, enforces child labor laws for minors)
  • Started June 25th, 1938 mainly for minimum wage back then

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

  • Gave loans to banks, state and local governments, and businesses to create projects/jobs for people
  • Gave state loans for emergency relief needs
  • Started under Hoover
  • Not successful

Boulder(Hoover) Dam

  • $165 million to build
  • Lots of construction
  • These created power and a selling opportunity

Bonus Expeditionary Force

  • People that were in WW1 were promised a bonus after the war
  • People started a march to the white house to ask for there bonus early(due to the great depression)
  • Set up Hoovervilles
  • Waiting for congress to decide if they will give it early
  • Turned into a protest when congress said no
  • New military were brought in to tell old military to leave

FDR’s Brain Trust

  • Harry Hopkins - Social worker and the architect of much the new Deal.
  • Henry Morgenthau
  • Louis Lowe

Fireside Chats

  • Talking to somebody through a radio by a fireplace
  • First convo was the emergency bank relief act

Social Security

  • MIssion: Promote economic security
  • Considered a patriotic act
  • It is around today
  • Workers pay 6.2 %

2/5 Monday - Presentations (All notes above)

2/6 Tuesday- Presentations (All notes above)

2/7 Wednesday - Presentations (All notes above)

2/8 Thursday -Presentations

2/9 Friday - Presentations

 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  • Created by the Glass-Steagall Act in 1933
  • Insured people’s money in banks up to $1,000 (today 250,000)
  • Passed in response to the bank failures after the stock market crash
  • Insures money like insurance

National Industrial Recovery Act

  • Established “codes of fair competition”
  • Helped prices and wages
  • Getting the economy back on track

Soil conservation and Domestic Allotment Act

Court Packing Bill

  • President Roosevelt was upset that the supreme court were old (stuck in there ways)
  • For every guy over 70 Roosevelt got to choose a new person (in his favor)
  • Backfired on Roosevelt

United States Housing Authority

  • Started 1937
  • Ended 1947
  • Cleared out ghettos, had low cost housing, and bring money to communities



2-12 Monday - Early Out Presentations

2-13 Tuesday - Early Out Presentations and notes

2-14 Wednesday - no school

2-15 Thursday - no school

2-16 Friday  no school

 

Reasons for the new deals

 

  • Powerful presidential lead
  • Created “Big government”
  • Some acts were unconstitutional
  • To help us get out of debt

 

Opponents to Roosevelt

 

  • Some say FDR went to far
  • Others say he didn't do enough
  • Spoke out against him are: Father Charles Coughlin, Francis Townsend, & a senator

 

Sharing wealth

 

  • Fortune's $50 million each
  • Limit annual income to one million dollars
  • Limit inheritance to five million dollars each
  • Guarantee every family an annual income of $2,000
  • Free college
  • Old-age pensions for people over 60
  • Veterans benefit and healthcare
  • 30 hour work week

 

Federal Housing Administration

 

  • Started in 1934
  • Helped with interest Rates
  • Mortgaged Terms
  • Insured Mortgage
  • Stability

 

Court packing Bill

 

  • AAA and NRA were slowing down the process of the court

 

New Deal vs 2nd new deal

 

  • Restore nation’s hope
  • Help banks and stock market
  • Provide jobs and relief for poor
  • Plan and regulate the economy
  • Pass new labor laws
  • Create and expand new deal agencies
  • Establish Social Security for older people and unemployed

 

2/19 Monday - No school

2/20 Tuesday - Come back and talk about some things not really a lot of things

2/21 Wednesday - Test review

2/22 Thursday - Test day

2/23 Friday - Mrs.Svendsen comes in so no class

 

Assignments

  • Watch 2-3 WWII movies and do a movie summary/review over it
  • Can be done verbally in class or written on a Google Doc
  • Due: First one is due 3/5/18 (Unbroken)
  • Due: Second one due 3/ /18 (Dunkirk)
  • Each summary/review will be 30 points
  • 10 points for your time and 20 points for the summary/review

 

  • Choose one weapon of WWII and be ready to discuss it in class
  • Will need to add to class google doc
  • Worth 20 points
  • Due: 3/7/18

 

  • Group Project: Choose 1 axis and one Allied WWII operation. Choose 1 country that was involved in WWII that isn't discussed in class and describe the role.
  • Worth 50 points
  • Due:
  • What was the operation

 

Japan in WWII

 

  • Areas controlled in China

 

  • ij

 

 

  • Japan in 1920’s

 

  • Joined League of Nations
  • Signed the 4,5, and 9 power pacts

4 power pact - US, GB, France, and Japan would respect each other’s possessions in the Pacific

5 power pact - US, GB, France, Italy, and Japan would liit naval size

9 power pact - US, GB, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, and CHina agree to the Open Door Policy and guarantee Chinese independence

  • Signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact

 

 

  • Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

 

  • League of Nations condemned the action, couldn’t enforce authority because they had no military
  • Message sent to aggressive countries was a big power with using force because Great Britain and France did not want war
  • Japan dropped League of Nations not long after invasion

 

 

  • China Incident July - 1937

 

  • Japan invades China
  • By the mid 1930’s china was in a civil war
  • China gets destroyed
  • Japan launches massive attack on China

 

 

  • Rape of nanking in late 1938

 

  • Mass killing of Chinese people (killed 300,000)
  • Mass raping of Chinese woman and girls
  • Mass looting and arson
  • People in Japan denied that the military killed civilians for no reason
  • Still causes tension between China and Japan
  • War crimes trial after the war to try Japanese soldiers for participation
  • Overall, throughout WW2, Japan killed almost 6,000,000 people

 

 

  • Quarantine speech 1937

 

  • Roosevelt said we need to quarantine the agressive nations
  • Really didn't go into war until Pearl harbor attack
  • Agressive countries were still fighting

 

 

  • Panay Incident- December 1937

 

  • American gunboat attacked on river in japan by Japan
  • 3 US troops killed, 45 injured
  • Japan said was accident and paid us $$
  • Wordened our relationship

 

 

  • Axis Powers

 

  • Main Powers: Germany, Italy, & Japan
  • Other Countries: Finland, Thailand, Iraq
  • Other Powers(were the countries that were taken over) (Puppet governments): Albania, Burma, Montenegro, Quisling Norway, Vichy France

 

 

  • Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact

 

  • USSR and Japan signed an agreement to not fight one another in April 1941
  • Japan considered breaking this once Germany(their ally) invaded the USSR in June 1941, but did not
  • They weren't going to fight each other
  • USSR broke this treaty when they declared war on Japan in August 9, 1945

 

 

  • Japanese Leaders

 

  • Hideki Tojo
  • Emperor Hirohito (emperor) (one that said he was going to bomb pearl harbor) (was executed) (After WWII had to tell there people that they were not god)

 

 

  • Basics in pearl harbor

 

  • Date: December 7th, 1941 (was a relaxed Sunday)
  • Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory
  • War results: 1.) Japanese major victory 2.) U.S. Declaration of War on Japan 3.) Germany and Italy Declare War on the U.S. (Tripartite Pact) 4.) U.S. Declares War on Germany and Italy
  • 1.) All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk 2.) Three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft ship and one minelayer ship were sunk or damaged 3.) 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed (Pacific Fleet)
  • Death/Casualties: 2,402 killed, and 1,282 wounded

 

 

  • USS Arizona Memorial

 

  • Names of the Arizon’s dead are engraved on this white marble wall at the memorial

 

 

  • Remember Pearl Harbor

 

  • One of the most patriotic song during WWII
  • Was played at family and religious gatherings throughout the country
  • Song: Remember Pearl Harbor
  • Vulchers came and dropped the bombs in Pearl Harbor

 

 

  • Why did Japan attack the pearl Harbor?

 

  • After Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940, US stopped in trading oil with Japan
  • Japan signed the Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact in April, 1941 guarentting that Japan and USSR would not go to war
  • Japan realized they needed US trade to be successful in war
  • Only way to force US hand was to hit them hard in a surprise attack forcing them out of the war
  • Japan knew that this plan was a huge risk, but thought it was the only way to defeat US
  • Plan backfired. Instead, Japan “awoke a sleeping giant

 

 

  • Backdoor to war conspiracy

 

  • We need American people to want war
  • Only way people wanted to get behind war was to make them attack us
  • Its conspiracy
  • Roosevelt wanted this to happen and knew it was coming
  • Roosevelt forced them to attack us

 

 

  • FDR’s War Speech

 

  • Pearl Harbor was not the only area JApan attacked on December 7thh
  • “Yesterday the Japanese Government also launched an attack against Malaya”
  • Attacked Hong Kong
  • Attacked Guam
  • Attacked Philippine Islands
  • Attacked Wake Islands
  • Attacked Midway islands

2-26 Monday - Test day

2-27 Tuesday - Starting WW2 Start Student Assignment

2-28 Wednesday - Start Axis start with Japan (all notes are above)

3-1  thursday - Taking notes

3-2 Friday - Taking notes

 

 

Molotov Cocktail

  • Used by finlands
  • Gasoline inside they would light it and it would start a fire
  • Kind of like a grenade

M2 Flamethrower

  • Basically worn as a backpack
  • It could burn things
  • Burn time was around 7 seconds
  • Very heavy

Wojtek Polish Soldier Ammunition Bear

  • Was trained to bring ammunition to soldiers
  • Would bring back injured soldiers

Suicide Bomb Dog

  • Soviets started to train dogs in WWI
  • Pull a chord and die
  • Blowing the tank up

Skye

  • M18 Hellcat
  • American tank
  • Used in the Korean war
  • Over $55,000

BM 13

  • Launch 30-48 missiles
  • Shoot 4,000 zone distance
  • Soviet union

Doodlebug

  • Small remote control tank
  • Control by a remote
  • Used to blow up bigger tanks
  • Germans used them, but by Americans

Dora and Gustav Rail Cannons

  • You had to take apart every time it was moved
  • 4,000 had to run it
  • Each shell is 1,100 pounds

V2 Rocket

  • 2,000 miles
  • Very powerful explosive rocket
  • Used by Germans

M1 Carbine

  • Smaller version of m1 garand
  • Clip fed from the top
  • Holds 8-10 rounds
  • Can have dif stock attachments




3-5 Monday - Discuss WW2 movies

3-6 Tuesday - No school

3-7 Wednesday - Finish WWII movies and go through WWII weapons

3-8 Thursday - Finish WWII weapons

3-9 Friday - No school

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