HIST 208

20. The First New Deal

• Election of FDR
  • Review of the Twenties Myth
  • Hoover vs. FDR
  • FDR's Speeches
• Definition of the First New Deal
  • Progressive Era Reform
  • Incoherent Political Rhetoric
• First 100 Days
  • Alphabet Soup Agencies
  • Study Questions

21. The Second New Deal

• Evaluating the First New Deal
  • Successes?
  • Failures?
  • Challenges
• The Second New Deal
  • Definition
  • Legislation
  • Popular Approval
  • Challenges and a New Approach
  • Memories
  • Evaluation

22. Evaluating the New Deal

• FDR the Man
  • Portraits
  • Letters
  • Fireside Chats
  • Civic Religion
• Union Workers
  • John Lewis/CIO
  • Ethnic Cooperation
  • African Americans
• Evaluation
  • New Deal
  • Social Security

23. Neutrality to WWII

• "Peace for Our Time"
  • FDR's Good Neighbor Policy
  • Italian and German Imperialism
  • Chamberlain's Appeasement
  • U.S. Neutrality Acts
• World War Two
  • Nazi Invasion of Czechoslovakia
  • Nazi Invasion of Poland
  • Europe at War
  • U.S. Neutrality
    • Cash-and-Carry Policy
    • FDR's "Four Freedoms"
    • Lend-Lease Policy
    • Atlantic Charter
  • Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

24. World War II

• Pearl Harbor
• WWII: The European Theater
  • Auschwitz
  • The Big Three
  • D-Day: Normandy
  • Battle of the Bulge
  • V-E Day
• WWII: The Pacific Theatre
  • Wake, Guam, Philippines
  • Bataan
  • Midway, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
  • Atomic Bombs

25. World War II, continued

• The United Nations
  • Yalta (Feb. 1945)
  • United Nations (Apr. 1945)
  • U.N. Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• Financing the War
  • Budget, Taxes, Bonds
  • Military-Industrial Complex
  • Price-Fixing

26. Iron Curtain and Greece

• Iron Curtain
  • Yalta (1945)
  • Westminster College (1946)
  • Cold War Definition
• Truman Doctrine: Containment
  • Keenan's Containment Policy
  • Aid to Greece (1947)
  • National Security Act (1947)
  • NSC 68 (1950)
• Early Stages of the Cold War
  • Marshall Plan (1948)
  • Berlin Airlift (1948-1949)
  • NATO vs. COMECON (1949)
  • Geramny Divided (1949)

27. The Korean Conflict

• Korean Conflict
  • Background
  • Attempted Reunification
  • Stages of War
  • MacArthur
  • Legacies
• Cold War in the U.S.
  • Fair Deal
  • McCarthyism