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HISTORY 167 Boulder Dam: harnessed the waters of the 1.

introduction of coin-operated jukeboxes


THE GREAT DEPRESSION Colorado River for the generation of in the market
electricity 2. introduction of Betty Boop cartoon
New York Stock Market Crash 1947: renamed Hoover Dam character
IMPACT: Unemployment 1932: established the Reconstruction 3. Wonder Bread (sliced)
1930: 7.8% Finance Corporation 4. Motts apple sauce
1931: 16.3% Reconstruction Finance Corporation 5. legalization of gambling in Nevada
1932: 24.9% AIM: to make loans available to financial 6. opening of Empire State Building (New
1933: 25.1% institutions and railroads to prevent York City)
ADJUSTMENTS: (1) many employees bankruptcy and forced liquidation 7. introduction of Dick Tracy comic strip
took pay cuts o Law and Order 8. introduction of AlkaSeltzer in the
(from $25/week to $17/week); (2) sell Public Enemy Era (1931-1934): marked market
apples on the streets (skilled factory by the proliferation of the following: 9. introduction of 3 Musketeers chocolate
workers); (3) decrease spending on 1. gangsters bar in the market
consumer goods; (4) buy only essential 2. bank robbers 10. Campbells chicken noodle soup
consumer goods; (5) sell unnecessary goods 3. assassins 11. Campbells cream of mushroom soup
(automobiles) 4. gamblers
o Hobo: refers to homeless migratory 5. smugglers HISTORY 167
workers 6. kidnappers THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
Bank Failures John Dillinger CRASH
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES: 1903-1934 Speculative Boom
declares bankruptcy (December 1930) Indianapolis (Indiana) Installment Plan: buying automobiles,
400,000 depositors lose their deposits Charles Arthur Pretty Boy Floyd radios, appliances with a small down
1904-1934 payment in cash and the rest of the
Hunger
Bartow (Georgia) cost plus interest over a period of time
CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS:
Lester Joseph Gillis Significance:
put up bread lines to feed the unemployed;
also known as Baby Face Nelson 1. merchants had to overcome ingrained
put up soup kitchens to feed the people
1908-1934 habits of traditional American ethics
Homelessness: thousands of people Bonnie Elizabeth Parker 2. made possible for a person to drive home
lost their homes because they could 1909-1934 an automobile with only $60 instead of
not meet mortgage payments; Rowena (Texas) saving $600 to buy an automobile
homeless peoples build shanties at the Clyde Chestnut Barrow 3. made buying/spending painless
edge of city limits 1909-1934 Traditional American Ethics
Herbert Hoover Ellis County (Texas) 1. thrift and frugality
31st President of the United States, 1929- Arizona Donnie Barker 2. preached in churches
1933 also known as Ma Barker 3. taught in schools
o Weakness: refused to face realistically 1873-1935 4. enshrined in the writings of Benjamin
the condition of the unemployed Ash Grove (Missouri) Franklin
1930: the worst effects of the crash upon George Celino Barnes Benjamin Franklin Period
employment will have passed during the also known as Machine Gun Kelly VALUES:
next sixty days 1895-1954 thrift and frugality
1930: prosperity is just around the corner Vocabulary of Criminality 1. that people should avoid debt
Herbert Hoover Public Enemy: (gangster) 2. that people should do without goods they
o Weakness: adhered to traditional Gun Moll: (female companion of gangster) could not afford
laissez-faire view: Turkey: (stolen goods) 3.that money not needed should be saved
1. that government should not Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Calvin Coolidge Period
interfere with business Created: 1908 VALUES:
2. that private investment was Motto: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity 1. encouraged people to spend
the only road to national Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 2. discouraged people from saving money
economic recovery MANDATE: to detect... crimes against Real Estate Deals
o Weakness: believed that helping the United States. Significance: encouraged Americans with a
individuals through federal food or Organized Crime few hundred dollars to turn their money
relief payments undermines the 1. Loan sharking into thousands and thousands of dollars
initiative of the American people 2. Assassination Florida: Sunshine State;advertised as the
o Weakness: advised the people on the 3. Blackmail perfect place for retirement ; sunshine all
need for economy in their lives 4. Bombing year round
1931: recognized the need to pump 5. Bookmaking Florida Real Estate Attractions
government money into the private 6. Illegal gambling Purpose:
economy 7. Copyright infringement 1. retirement homes
1931: began public works projects as a 8. Counterfeiting of intellectual property 2. businesses too serve retirement homes
means of recreating prosperity through 9. Kidnapping Florida Orange Groves: divided into
increasing demand for goods and services John Edgar Hoover: First Director subdivisions
Boulder Dam Project: appropriated (1895-1972) Speculator:
money for the construction of the Boulder Washington D.C. 1. buy real estate
Dam on the Colorado River Novelties in American Life 2. make a down payment
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3. pay the monthly installments Bullish Stock Market: when more o Civilian Conservation Corps: placed
Real Estate Deals people buy stocks, 1925-1929 hundreds of unemployed men to work
Unscrupulous deals: alligator-infested Weakness: each season on environmental projects
swamplands; ten-feet deep floodplains and 1. Artificial Rise in Stock Values (stock 2. Recovery of the economy to normal
beachfront lots prices rise because of the belief that there levels
o Escalation of speculation: original are people willing to buy stocks at a higher National Industrial Recovery Act
speculator sold the real estate at a price) AIM:
profit; next buyer sold the real estate 2. Empty Values of Stocks 1. to provide employment
for a bigger profit a. few companies paid dividends 2. to stabilize purchasing power
Real Estate Deals b. companies did not use the money raised 3. to contribute to a revival of American
Advantage: as long as there were people by selling shares to improve their industry
willing to buy real estate productive capacity Provisions:
Disadvantage: 3. Speculative Buying: investors borrow 1. authorized the President of the United
1. when there are no longer people willing money to buy more stocks States to regulate industry and permit cartels
to buy real estate 4. Buying on Margin: entailed buying on and monopolies to stimulate economic
2. when the last speculator did not have credit; buying on credit becomes easy recovery
enough cash to make the payments because stock brokers lend small investors 2. established a national public works
3. when the last speculator was forced to more than two-thirds of the face value of program
sell the property at a reduced price the stocks that they are buying 3. construction of large-scale public works
Real Estate Deals Inevitable Bust projects such as dams and bridges
1. property prices drop Result: when there are no more people to 4. created the Public Works Administration
2. drop in property prices causes panic bid the stock prices higher to construct large-scale public works
3. speculators hasten to unload their September 3, 1929 projects such as dams and bridges
properties Dow Jones Industrial Average: 381;average Public Works Administration: allotted
4. speculative balloon bursts price of share in the New York Stock $3.3billion to carry out public works
5. banks foreclose on the mortgages Exchange dip sharply; prices of stocks spur projects
6. banks are stuck with land worth only a up and down 1. construction of schools and dams
fraction of the mortgage some people begin to lose money 2. refurbishing government buildings
Stock Market Crash 3. planning sewerage systems
Stock Market OCTOBER 29, 1929: sudden dramatic 4. improving highways
Stock: represents capital paid into or decline of stock prices across a significant 1. Triboro Bridge (New York City)
invested in a business; also called cross-section of a stock market Public Works Administration
share o New York Stock Market Crash (funded project)
o Stockholder/Shareholder : person who Immediate Effect: 2. Lincoln Tunnel (New York City)
owns stock or share of a company 1. people rush to the banks to withdraw Public Works Administration
o Stock Certificate: legal document that their money (funded project)
certifies ownership of a certain number 2. banks go bankrupt (lose their money on 3. Overseas Highway (Florida)
of stocks/shares loans made to speculators) Public Works Administration
o Dividend: payment made by a 3. people lose their lifesavings when the (funded project)
company to its banks close their doors 4. Grand Coulee Dam (Washington)
stockholders/shareholders National Recovery Administration:
representing the portion of company HISTORY 167 allowed industry heads to collectively
profits THE NEW DEAL set price floors; allowed businesses that
o Stock Market/Stock Exchange: a loose followed codes of fair competition to
network of economic transactions for Franklin Delano Roosevelt display the blue eagle poster; asked
the trading of company stock and 1932 Presidential Election consumers to buy only from businesses
derivatives at an agreed price Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat, New displaying the blue eagle poster
o New York Stock Exchange located in York) Agricultural Adjustment
Lower Manhattan (financial district) of Herbert Hoover (Republican, California) Administration: to make the price of
New York City o New Deal: a series of economic food affordable for every American;
Calvin Coolidge Period programs passed by Congress during paid farmers a subsidy to reduce the
Roaring twenties: the first term of Roosevelt from 1933- production of crops and the number of
people of modest means began buying 1938 animals they raised
stocks in companies: FOCUSED ON "3Rs": Farm Security Administration:
1. to acquire dividends 1. Relief for the unemployed and poor originally called Resettlement
2. to sell their stocks when prices of Emergency Banking Relief Act Administration ; relocated struggling
stocks rose (1933) urban and rural families to
Playing the Market: when stockholders Provisions: communities planned by the federal
sell their stocks when the price of stocks 1. to close down insolvent banks government between April 1935 and
rise in order to acquire a profit 2. to reorganize and reopen those banks December 1936
Dow Jones Industrial Average: index strong enough to survive Resettlement Administration: relocated
showing how large publicly owned o Federal Emergency Relief struggling urban and rural families to
companies have traded during a standard Administration (FERA): distributed communities planned by the federal
trading session in the stock market $500million allotted by Congress to government between April 1935 and
state and local relief agencies December 1936
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National Housing Act of 1934 Securities and Exchange Commission: 1. The Grapes of Wrath: ordeal of Dust
Aim: to regulate the stock market; to prevent Bowl farmers and their harrowing exodus to
1. to make housing and home mortgages corporate abuses relating to the California
more affordable offering and sale of securities and 2. Of Mice and Men: story of two displaced
2. to improve housing standards and corporate reporting; to license and migrant ranch workers during the Great
conditions regulate stock exchanges, the Depression in California
Federal Housing Administration companies whose securities traded on o Margaret Mitchell
1. to provide an adequate home financing them, and the brokers and dealers who 1. Gone with the Wind: depicts the
system through insurance of mortgage loans conducted the trading; to enforce experiences of Scarlett OHara, the spoiled
2. to stabilize the mortgage market federal securities laws; to regulate the daughter of a wealthy Southern plantation
United States Housing Authority: to securities industry, stock and options owner
lend money to states or communities exchanges, and other electronic
for low-cost construction securities markets in the United States Novelties in American Life
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) 1. Worlds Fair in Chicago
Provisions: Movies motto: Science Finds, Industry Applies,
1. established a national minimum wage o Actresses Man Conforms
2. guaranteed time-and-a-half for overtime 1. Greta Garbo 2. introduction of Ritz Crackers in the
in 3. prohibited most employment of 2. Shirley Temple market
minors in Agricultural Adjustment Act 3. Judy Garland 3. introduction of 7up in the market (St.
(1938) 4. Bette Davis Louis, Missouri)
1. to make price support mandatory for o Actors 4. introduction of Spam in the market
corn, cotton, and wheat 1. Clark Gable (Austin, Minnesota)
2. to help maintain a sufficient supply in low 2. Errol Flynn 5. opening of Alcatraz Maximum Security
production periods along with marketing 3. Humphrey Bogart Prison in San Francisco Bay
quotas 4. Basil Rathbone 6. introduction of Lifesavers wild cherry
3. to keep supply in line with market Dance flavor candy
demand 1. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 7. introduction of Royal Crown cola
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1938) Music 8. huge dust storms break out over the
Provisions: established permissive supports o Big Band: 12 to 25 musicians Great Plains
for butter, dates, figs, hops, turpentine, Brass section: saxophones, trumpets, 9. introduction of rail travel by the Union
rosin, pecans, prunes, raisins, barley, rye, trombones Pacific Railway from New York City to Los
grain sorghum, wool, winter cover-crop Rhythm section: guitar, piano, drums Angeles in 57 hours
seeds, mohair, peanuts, and tobacco for the spiced up familiar commercial, popular 10. start of trans-Pacific service from San
1938-40 period material with a Harlem oriented flavor Francisco to Manila by Pan Am World
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation : played by a white band for a white Airways
established by the Agricultural musical/commercial audience 11. introduction of Kit Kat bar
Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide 1. Benny Goodman 12. introduction of Lifesavers five flavors
U.S. farmers and agricultural entities 2. Jimmy Dorsey candy
with crop insurance protection 3. Glenn Miller 13. Life Magazine begins publication (New
Tennessee Valley Authority (1933): to 4. Artie Shaw York City)
provide navigation, flood control, Literature: provided solace, advice and 14. introduction of Betty Crocker cake mix
electricity generation, fertilizer hope to Americans during the Great 15. opening of San Franciscos Golden Gate
manufacturing and economic Depression Bridge
development in the Tennessee Valley escapist literature dominated the German dirigible Hindenburg explodes in
Dust Storm o James Hilton Lakehurst, New Jersey
1936: 1. Lost Horizon: life in a mythical paradise 16. Amelia Earhart disappears while flying
huge dust storms blow across the Mid-West called Shangri-la over the Pacific Ocean
; covered a large area of the Mid-West with 2. Goodbye Mr. Chips!: nostalgia for the
dust Victorian social order that faded rapidly HISTORY 167
after Queen Victorias death in 1901 WORLD WAR II
3. Reform of the financial system to prevent o Pearl S. Buck
a repeat depression 1. The Good Earth:: family saga set in Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Federal Savings and Loan faraway China 1936 Presidential Election
Insurance Corporation: administered o William Faulkner Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat, New
deposit insurance for savings and loan 1. Absalom! Absalom!: about 3 families in York)
institutions the American South before, during and Alf Landon (Republican, Kansas)
Federal Deposit Insurance after the Civil War 1940 Presidential Election
Corporation (1933): to provide deposit 2. Light in August: explores racial conflict in Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat, New
insurance that would guarantee the Southern United States society York)
safety of deposits in member banks; 3. The Sound and the Fury: centers on Wendell Willkie (Republican, New York)
examines and supervises financial former 1944 Presidential Election
institutions for safety and soundness; Southern aristocrats struggling to deal with Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat, New
performs consumer protection the dissolution of their family and York)
functions; manages banks in reputation Thomas Dewey (Republican, New York)
receiverships (failed banks) o John Steinbeck 1944 Presidential Election
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Ex. Seattle (Washington) Pacific Theater
America Before World War II 5. new prosperous city in the United States Early Defeats
POLICY: opposed involvement in wars in Oakland (California) o Philippines
Europe Los Angeles (California) OBJECTIVES: (Japanese Invasion)
Neutrality Acts: series of laws passed by Women in the Labor Force: employment 1. to prevent the use of the Philippines as
Congress to avoid American entanglement of women in jobs earlier performed by men an advance base of operations by American
in European wars Rosie the Riveter: symbol of the forces
Neutrality Acts American working woman 2. to acquire staging areas and supply bases
Provisions: Significance: to enhance operations against the
1. warned Americans traveling in ships of 1. helped solve the unemployment problem Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya
nations at war in the 1930s 3. to secure the lines of communication
2. required all nations to pay cash for 2. made women important in the war effort between occupied areas in the south and
American products they purchased Volunteer Work: to make ordinary Japan
3. required all nations to load aboard their Americans contribute to the war effort Defense Forces: Philippines
own ships the American products they by growing their own vegetable (large farm Unted States Army Forces in the Far East
purchased vegetables were allotted to feed the army) (USAFFE): 31,095
4. sold American-made weapons to Victory Garden: backyards, open spaces, Philippine Scouts: 11,988
belligerent nations on the condition that vacant lots converted into vegetable gardens Japanese 14th Army
they transport their purchases aboard their Ex. collecting scraps to be converted to Invasion Force for the Philippines:
ships material useful to the war effort 1. 16th Infantry Division (Lamon Bay
Rationing: way of distributing limited landing force)
America Enters World War II goods fairly for the good of the American 2. 48th Infantry Division (Lingayen Gulf
December 7, 1941: Japan attacks Pearl men in uniform landing force)
Harbor (Hawaii) Ex. distributing coupons for the purchase Commander: Lieutenant General Masaharu
Pearl Harbor: United States naval base in of meat, butter, sugar, etc.; limiting ration Homma
Oahu, Hawaii; headquarters of US Pacific coupons depending on the number of
Fleet family members Invasion of the Philippines
December 7, 1941: USS Arizona sinks Encouraging Thriftiness: to save on War Plans: to destroy all military capability
December 8, 1941: Roosevelt reports to necessary goods for the use of the men in of the Philippines; to make several landings
Congress the attack on Pearl Harbor uniform of military forces in several parts of the
calls December 7 as a date which will live Selling Bonds country ; to converge all military forces in
in infamy" Bonds: certificates that promised that the Luzon for the attack against Manila
America at War government would pay the holder the Battle of Bataan
Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war amount borrowed plus interest regarded as the most intense phase of the
against: Internment of Japanese-Americans Japanese invasion of the Philippines during
1. Japan 1. transfer of 100,000 Japanese-Americans World War II
2. Italy in internment camps Battle of Corregidor
3. Germany Places of Settlement: Counterattack
Mobilization U.S. West Coast Battle of the Coral Sea
Army Recruitment Japanese-Americans Location: off the shores of Australia Battle
drafting of soldiers for the war effort a. ISSEI: 30,000 of the Coral Sea
Women Auxiliary Corps (WAC): enlistment foreign born; entered the United States Significance: America halts Japanese
of women for non-combat service before the National Origins Act of 1924; advance to the south (Australia)
Army Recruitment naturalized American citizens; Japanese- Island Hopping Warfare: attacking
Home Front: Americans who stayed in Americans Japanese-held islands in the Pacific Ocean
America; performed works vital to the b. NISEI: 70,000 Problems:
American soldiers natural-born American citizens involved landing on islands where Japanese
Manufacturing War Supplies: creation of Internment of Japanese-Americans reason: soldiers were entrenched in concrete
the War Production Board to exercise strong anti-Japanese sentiment after the bunkers
general responsibility over the nations bombing of Pearl Harbor Island Hopping Warfare; ntailed fighting
economy; making industrialists to convert Executive Order 9066 Japanese soldiers indoctrinated with intense
their factories from civilian to military February 19, 1942: loyalty to the Japanese Emperor
production; convincing businesses to build 1. authorized the removal of Japanese- Battle of Midway
new plants to increase production Americans from their homes in the West Location: to the west of Hawaii
Significance: Coast America sinks four (4) Japanese aircraft
1. transformed the factory assembly lines 2. sent Japanese-Americans to internment carriers
from the manufacture of consumer goods camps in Arkansas and the Western states Significance: America inflicts a decisive
to the production of military supplies Issei and Nisei defeat on the Japanese
2. reopened factories that had been idle for 3. citizens of the United States but regarded Battle of Guadalcanal
many years as enemies Location:
3. led to the prosperity of the West Coast Japanese-Americans off the shores of New Guinea
where new factories were located Weaknesses: Battle of Guadalcanal
Ex. Lockheed Plant 1. easily singled out
4. led to the expansion of West Coast cities 2. lacked political power Atomic Bomb
(near the embarkation points to Japan) 3. little economic influence
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Rationale: to end the fighting at once in the Features: used less clothing material TURKEY: to help Turkey from being
Pacific forced by the Soviet Union to share
Atomic Bombs over Japan HISTORY 167 control of shipping between the Black
Hiroshima: August 6, 1945 KOREAN WAR Sea and the Mediterranean Sea
Nagasaki: August 9, 1945 Harry Truman Containment: entailed the restriction
assumes the presidency (Vice President) of Communism to its current borders
D-Day 1948 Presidential Election as the only way to secure world peace;
Location: Normandy (France) Harry Truman (Democrat, Missouri) first enunciated by George Kennan
1. involved the amphibious landing of Thomas Dewey (Republican, New York) (American advisor, diplomat, political
soldiers, weapons, motor vehicles, aircrafts, Foreign Policy scientist, and historian; wrote standard
vessels for the invasion of Germany Ending World War II histories on relations between Russia
2. marked the start of the Allied invasion of o Peace Conference and the Western powers; that the
Germany Place: United States needs to pursue long-
Dwight Eisenhower: commanded the Potsdam (Germany) term, patient but firm and vigilant
Allied forces in the European Theater Potsdam Conference containment of Russian expansive
United States: Harry Truman tendencies)
Restoring the Peace Great Britain: Clement Atlee Winston Churchill: from Stettin in
Yalta Soviet Union: Josef Stalin the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an
Location: Crimea Peninsula (Soviet Union) Agreements: iron curtain has descended across the
Yalta 1. complete disarmament of Germany continent
Objective: to decide the fate of Europe 2. division of Germany into zones of Establishment of Military Alliances
after the end of World War II in accordance occupation West: North Atlantic Treaty
with the vision of the victorious powers Divided Germany Organization
Yalta Western zone:under the control of the Created at Washington D.C.
o Participants: United States, Great Britain, France; United States
United States: Franklin Delano Roosevelt became known as the Federal Republic of Canada
Great Britain: Winston Churchill Germany France
Soviet Union: Josef Stalin Eastern zone: under the control of Soviet Britain
Union Belgium
Novelties in American Life 3. division of Berlin into two: Luxembourg
1. 20,000 television sets in New York City a. East Berlin Netherlands
area alone b. West Berlin Italy
2. Worlds Fair opens in New York City Berlin Blockade: when the Soviet Iceland
3. introduction of Dairy Queen soft serve Union blocked railway and road access Norway
ice cream of the Allied Powers going to West Denmark
4. Jitterbug becomes latest dance craze Berlin Portugal
5. introduction of nylon stockings in the Harry Truman : orders the airlifting East: Warsaw Pact
market of supplies to West Berlin Central Intelligence Agency
6. Earl Tupper invents Tupperware Harry Truman: ... at the present moment, Created: National Security Act of 1947
7. first 160 miles of the Pennsylvania nearly every nation must choose between 1. to provide national security intelligence to
Turnpike opens alternative ways of life. The choice is too senior United States policymakers
8. Charlie Chaplin plays the tramp and a often not a free one.
Hitler figure in his first talking picture One way of life is based upon the will of Foreign Policy
9 John Fords film The Grapes of Wrath the majority and is distinguished by free Building the Peace
starring Henry Fonda institutions, representative government, free Yalta Conference : agreement was
10. Walt Disneys animated film Fantasia elections, guarantees of individual liberty, reached to establish a peacekeeping
11. introduction of M & Ms freedom of speech and religion, and organization (United Nations)
12. introduction of Cheerios freedom from political oppression. 50 countries met in San Francisco to
13. Orson Welles in the film Citizen Kane The second way of life is based upon the draft the charter of the United Nations
14. Humphrey Bogart plays private eye Sam will of a minority forcibly imposed upon by Role: international peacekeeping
Spade in The Maltese Falcon the majority. It relies upon terror and organization
15. Walt Disneys Dumbo oppression, a controlled press and radio, United States
16. introduction of Kelloggs Raisin Bran fixed elections, and the suppression of Harry Truman: We must build a new
17. Walt Disneys Bambi personal freedoms. world, a far better world --- one in
18. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman Truman Doctrine: to support all free which the eternal dignity of man is
star in Casablanca people who are resisting attempted respected
19. Richard Rodgers and Oscar subjugation by armed minorities or by United Nations organs:
Hammerstein collaborate to make music outside pressures 1. General Assembly
and lyrics for Broadway musical 1. US gave $400 million in military and 2. Security Council
Oklahoma! economic aid to Greece and Turkey 3. Secretariat
20. introduction of Kraft Parmesan Grated GREEK CIVIL WAR 1946-1949: to 4. International Court of Justice
Cheese support Greek government army 5. Trusteeship Council
Womens Fashion (democratic) against the Democratic 6. Economic and Social Council
Features: military-inspired; simpler Army of Greece (communist) Special agencies:
Womens Fashion
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1. United Nations Childrens Fund United States: calls on the United Nations public; located at the outskirts of a city
(UNICEF) Security Council to intervene but within commuting distance
2. World Health Organization (WHO) U.N. Security Council Factors:
3. Food and Agriculture Organization Truman: supports U.N. Security 1. greater availability of cars
(FAO) Council Resolution; sends U.S. military 2. expansion of highway system
4. United Nations Educational, Scientific forces to the U.N. force going to 3. affordability of housing in the suburbs
and 5. Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Korea Suburban Living : combined elements of
6. International Labor Organization (ILO) Truman: orders Douglas MacArthur to city life with features of rural living
7. International Monetary Fund send American military forces to Korea Suburban Living
8. United Nations Environment Korean War Features:
Programme (UNEP) July-September 1950: MacArthur lands at 1. picturesque countryside
9. United Nations High Commission for Inchon 2. space for recreation
Refugees OCTOBER 1950: China enters the war, 3. peace and quiet
Headquarters: New York City sends army units to North Korea Significance: made possible the American
Korean War dream of marriage, homeownership and
Domestic Policy 1951-1953: continuation of the war with no parenthood for thousands of young people
George-Barden Act: expanded federal side winning who longed for wholesome stability
support for vocational education United States and the Korean War Suburban Living
Farmers Home Administration to MacArthur: wanted to drop an atomic Transformation of American Lifestyle:
assist self-help rural housing group to bomb in China 1. daily commutes from suburbs to jobs in
make grants and loans for the repair Truman: convinced that America cannot cities
and construction of rural homes win against China (because of sheer number 2. Traffic encountered in the daily
Veterans' Emergency Housing Act: alone) commutes
encouraged the construction of APRIL 11, 1951: Truman relieved 3. creation of new local governments
housing for returning soldiers MacArthur of his command (county)
National Mental Health Act: Truman vs MacArthur 4. creation of new local governments
authorized federal support for mental Resolution: (county)
health research and treatment the military is subordinate to civilian 5. establishment of new school systems
programs authority 6. more whites transferred to the suburbs
Housing Act of 1949: provided federal Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 7. Hispanics and Blacks remained in the
financing for slum clearance programs M.A.S.H.: introduced in the Korean War ; cities
associated with urban renewal projects refers to a medical unit serving as a fully
increased authorization for the Federal functional hospital in a combat area of Disadvantages:
Housing Administration (FHA) operations 1. conformity to a pattern
mortgage insurance 2. decline of individuality
Housing Act of 1949 extended federal Postwar Industry: geared towards 3. lack of privacy
money to build more than 800,000 production of consumer goods
public housing units; permitted the Consumer Goods Novelties in American Life
FHA to provide financing for rural focused towards making life comfortable 1. Pillsbury pie crust mix
homeowners Industry Wages 2. Ragu spaghetti sauce
Disaster Loan Act (1949): made showed rise/increase in real income 3. Pillsbury hot roll mix
farmers who experienced severe crop o Real Income: enabled Americans to 4. Almond joy
losses due to natural disasters eligible buy what they needed 5. Cheetos snacks
for special low-interest loans o Discretionary Income: enabled 6. Nestles quik chocolate
Social Security Act of 1950: increased Americans to buy what they wanted 7. Kraft sliced cheese
welfare benefits; extended the coverage Economic Growth 8. Fritos corn chips
of social security to elderly Americans; Manifestations: 9. Sara Lee cheese cake
raised the minimum wage 1. growth in the sizes of farms 10. Smarties
Harry Truman 2. Large-Scale Farming (lowered the cost of 11. Kelloggs sugar pops
National slogan: Fair Deal production)
"Every segment of our population, and 3. continuation of the automobile culture 12. Dunkin Doughnut fast food chain
every individual, has a right to expect from in America 13. Tropicana orange juice
his government a Fair Deal. American Car Culture 14. Jack in the Box fast food chain
o Fair Deal: 21-point program of 1. introduction of drive-in theaters 15. Taco Bell fast food chain
domestic legislation outlining a series 2. introduction of curb service in drive-in 16. Kraft cheese whiz
of proposed actions in the fields of cafes 17. Kelloggs sugar frosted flakes
economic development and social Housing
welfare 1. demand for housing of returning soldiers
(World War II and Korean War)
Korean War Initial location: in university campuses
Korea 1910-1945: ruled by Japan Quonset Hut: refers to housing located
38th Parallel in university campuses; housing
North Korea: north of the 38th Parallel provided to returning soldiers
South Korea: south of the 38th Parallel Suburb: refers to the new planned
community for housing of the general
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