• GOVERNMENT CAN REGULATE THE FLOW OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE, OR COMMERCE BETWEEN 2 STATES
• GOVERNEMNT CANNOT REGULATE THE FLOW OF INTRASTATE COMMERCE, OR COMMERECE WITHIN A STATE
ROOSEVELT’S COURT PACKING PLAN
• Sprang it on the country in 1937 after he was re-elected
• If justices did not retire by age 70 a new justice would be added to help ease the load
• FDR wanted justices who understood “Modern tradition”
• Soundly Defeated (but accomplishes what FDR wants)
• Sup. Ct. re-evaluates opinions, justices retire
• By time FDR dies, nearly every justice replaced
$ DEFECIT SPENDING $
- “Maintain the prosperity of
the country even if the
government has to deficit
spend to do it.”
- John Maynard Keynes
http://melbecon.unimelb.edu.au/het/keynes/index.htm
DEFICIT SPENDING (CONTINUED)
$ Keynes’ idea was to create jobs and start building, even if the U.S. had to borrow to do it.
$ Keynes believed that the answer was to PUMP MONEY INTO THE ECONOMY
$ If there is not enough money in the economy, pump money into it and that will keep it moving
New Deal Segregation
• In the south, there were separate groups of farmers
• There were black sharecroppers and white farmers
• FDR did not do anything for the sharecroppers. He did not attempt to end segregation.
• FDR did not want to isolate the southern Democrats
NEW DEAL (HELP)
• Organized labor, collective bargaining (all came about because of New Deal programs)
• Wagner Organized Labor Act
• Legal recognition of unions
• This led to the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Click below for explanation of Fair Labor Standards Act
• http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=00D16000
NEW DEAL HELP (CONTINUED
• After Fair Labor Standards Act, more workers belonged to unions than any other time in American History
• 30 to 35 % of Americans belonged to a union
• Today, 13 % of Americans belong to a union
Modern Day Influence of Unions
• G. M. Strike (sit down)
• Lasted 44 Days
• G. M. asked government to call out the National Guard
• In the end, the union won
Henry Ford
• Last to allow workers to unionize• Ran his company like an Army• Workers were not permitted to talk on the
assembly line (whisper)• Checked on the families of his workers on a
regular basis• http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/hf/henry.html
Social Disruption• http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?fsaall:5:./
temp/~ammem_VrJ9::• Depression had
less effects on
employment than women• men suffered intensely
emotionally• Dissertion rate was
sky high• Picture of La. Strawberry
picker
Social Disruption (continued) - Children were often
left at home
- Women had to work
outside the home and
continue to do all the
house work (very tough)
- Government passed
programs to give $ to HS
/college students for food
books, clothes, etc.
FDR’s Quarantine Speech - FDR felt our vital
interests were tied
up in WW II
- If Germany controlled
all the rest, than we
would be at a
disadvantage
- 1937 “Quarantine the
Agressor Speech”
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/fdr-images.html
Pearl Harbor
• December 6, 1941
• http://www.GeoCities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/5115/Battleship_Row.html
Key Players in WW II
1) China - Chaing Hai Shek
2) Russia - Stalin
3) Bernard Montgomery (Great Britian) - leader of British Army
4) George Patton (famous U. S. General)
5) Rommel (the Desert Fox) - Germany
- Africa Korp
Hitler (of course)
Key Players (continued)
7) James Doolittle
8) FDR
- Pearl Harbor - a day that will live in
infamy
- We thought we could not fight a war
because of the Depression
- U.S. went from Depression to out
producing Germany, Japan, Italy
Key Terms
• Rationing - Government giving a certain amount to each person to make sure they had it (rainy day)
• Interment - Japenese were placed in concentration camps
- Afraid they would send messages back to Japan
- Japanese lost homes/businesses
Key Battles
• North Africa - We wanted it because Hitler wanted it for oil
- When Hitler left Africa it was the turning point in WW II
- Beginning of the end
- Patton/Montgomery (leaders)
Key Battles (continued)
• Battle of Coral Sea
- 1st time U.S. stood
up to Japan in war
- Battle was accidential
- At night in fog
- U.S. Naval forces bumped into Japanese Naval forces
- No winners, no losers
- Morale builder
Key Battles (continued)
• Battle of Midway
- 1st major defeat of Japanese Navy
• Led to defeat of To Jo,
Japanese military commander.
• Click blue site below to see more war propaganda posters
http://www.openstore.com/posters/freedom.jpg