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• 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

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

- Allies won WW II - General Douglas MacAuthur helped draft the new Japanese Constitution - But you have Roosevelt to thank for the wonderful U.S. History Lessons!!!