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Explain the content/impact of AAA? and TVA?
Agricultural Adjustment Act
- It was to help farmers who had been hard hit by the
- depression.
- Part of New Deal Laws
- Pay farmers to limit their over production of
- crops and livestock. Such cutbacks
- would help bring the supply of agricultural products more in line with the
- demands for them causing the prices to rise.
- It was not successful because people had already
- planted their crops and many animals had given birth to the young and if they
- killed the crops and animals it would be just wasteful and immoral.
Tennessee Valley Authority
- It was to turn the running river water power into
- electricity.
- Provided Funds for the development and
- electrification of the Tennessee River Authority.
- It also aimed to enrich the land and hydrate the
- land to create fish filled lakes that would create tourism and provide jobs for
- the residents.
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Briefly describe TWO of these speakers proposals.
Dr. Francis Townsend
Father Charles Coughlin
Senator Huey Long
- Established the Townsend plan
- 1.
- Ask every person over the age 60 to retire freeing
- jobs for young.
- 2.
- Guarantee monthly pensions of $200 to retired
- citizens 60 or older.
- 3.
- Had to spend all of the money in 30 days.
Senator Huey Long
He opposed FDR’s programs
Senator Huey Long
- 1.
- Pushed through new taxes in Louisiana to raise
- fund for schools and hospitals that would serve the poor.
- 2.
- He launched a campaign called Share Our Wealth. Longs
- proposal was all incomes above $5 million dollars would be confiscated and
- redistributed, providing each family with a $5000 dollar income.
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Discuss america's entry into WWII by describing what
germanys expansion and lend lease act
Pearl Harbor
Coral sea
D-day Bulge
CH 15 - 16
WWII
Germany’s expansion and Lend Lease Act
- ·
- Germany, seeking to increase its territory, took
- control of Austria and Czechoslovakia, two weeks neighboring countries. Germany
- soon invaded Poland which brought U.S into the war.
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- January 1941, Roosevelt proposed the Lend Lease
- Bill. This gave the president the right to sell, lend, or lease military
- supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States.” More than $50 billion dollars in
- weapons, vehicles and other supplies would go to support the Allies.
Pearl Harbor
- U.S knew that Japan
- would eventually come. They suspected attack on Malaya or the Philippines.
- Yamamoto launched an attack to Pearl Harbor knocking us off our feet. We never
- saw the attack coming.
- l Coral
- Sea - American Carrier
- based planes bombarded the Japanese fleet. Stopping the Japanese advance
- towards Australia.
- l D-Day – Largest combined land-sea-air attack in
- history. U.S would try to sweep Germans out of France. D-day was successful.
- l Battle of the Bulge – Final German offensive of
- the War.
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