Courses
History 208: History of the USA, Part II
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
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.
