Week of Feb. 1-5

Monday-

4.-1932/1936 Presidential elections

  • Hoover got annihilated

5.-Bonus Army

  • Douglas MacArthur
  • Eisenhower 
  • Patton

6.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads

7.-Franklin Roosevelt’s background and accomplishments-Focus on New Deal

  • Only handicapped president
    • Contracted Polio in the 1920's and was bound to a wheelchair
  • Only president to be elected 4 times

8.-The Three R’s

9.-The difference between the First New Deal and Second New Deal

10.-Fireside chats

  • radio chats from Roosevelt
  • people usually listened to them by the fire
  • first chat- bank holiday and the banking system 
  • couple dozen over the years 

11.-The Hundred Days

  • Roosevelt's 1st 100 days he wanted to get stuff done to be a good president

12.-Deficit spending and “priming the pump”

  • deficit spending- spending more than you can take in 
  • "priming the pump"- throwing a lot of money into the economy

13.-FDR vs the US Supreme Court-Court Packing issue

  • 6 of the 9 over 70- Roosevelt was frustrated 

14.-Critics and failings of the New Deal-Long, Caughlin, Townshend

Tuesday- no school

Wednesday-no School

Thursday- On Monday

Friday-

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