...Franklin D. Roosevelt was an American statesman and political leader who served as the thirty-second President of the United States. He was a focal figure in world events during the mid-twentieth century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. Roosevelt’s New Deal domestic policies defined American radicalism of the twentieth century. These policies helped America overcome the Great Depression of the 1930’s by increasing productivity, by helping unemployment, and by fulfilling more radical factions of society. Roosevelt was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors furnished him with nearly all his developmental training. He went to Groton, a prestigious...
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...For example, the National Youth Administration helped youths get an education and find jobs to support their families. (Doc 1 DBQ pt. 2) “This was a good program”. This program gave relief and reformed many jobs. Roosevelt never gave up and he sent out new programs as often as possible, in Document 4 an author drew a political cartoon, it shows all the “medicines” healing America. Also, in Document 5, it shows how the unemployment rate successfully went down when Roosevelt was president. Roosevelt being president helped a lot of people recover from poverty, bringing the unemployment rate to a 4.7% his last year as...
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...Film Critical Essay Xinyue Zhang I saw the movie “Olympus Has Fallen” in the AMC Lennox Theatre on a Saturday night with one of my friends. There were not very much people in the theatre and for the movie I saw, there were only 20 to 30 people. There weren’t any children and all the people were very quiet so I felt really comfortable. The story in the movie happened recently because it involved nuclear war between America and North Korea. The main character Mike Banning is played by Gerard Butler. He used to be the President’s lead secret service agent. The movie starts with an accident happened 18 months before the story. It was during Christmas and the family of the President was going back to the White House from Camp David. On that trip, the car transported the President and his wife Margaret crashed. Mike only got the time to save the President, but Margaret died in that accident. Even though it was not his fault, Mike feels guilty ever since that day. After that tragedy, he was demoted to the Treasury Department because he triggers President’s horrible memories. 18 months later, the prime minister of South Korea comes to the House to meet with the President and during the meeting, an aircraft flies above Washington D.C and starts to shoot people on the ground. Because of this emergency, the President, the prime minister and other America top officials are moved to the House’s bunker. At the same time, more and more terrorists show up and start to attack the White House...
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...World War II: The Internment of Japanese Americans Josh White Sothern New Hampshire University WORLD WAR II: THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS The topic of Japanese American Internment during the Second World War is a very important part of American history.It happened during the Second World War when nations were against each other and after the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Japan automatically became an enemy to the United States thus leading to the government of the day led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 to take several measures against Japan and its origins mainly living in the United states. What followed was an executive order by the president to allow forceful removal of Americans of Japanese origin from their homes and incarcerated into camps.The government had feared another attack by the Japanese would be imminent and so they had to come up with some measures to get rid of Japanese spies that were living in the west coast. This led to one of the lowest moments in American history as these camps were an absolute human rights violation to these Japanese Americans. Most of these Japanese Americans who had been taken to these camps were actually legal American citizens thus showing that this move was based on racial stereotypes and propaganda that was being peddled during that time referring to the Japanese as less of human beings. This incarceration seriously affected these Japanese Americans...
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...healthcare cost and looked at health care reform as a top priority. A priority that did not stand the test for reformers after running into a band wagon of opposition from physicians, businesses, insurance companies, and other special interest groups that did not want national healthcare coverage and this opposition continues today. Franklin D. Rooselvelt made a couple of attempts to provide universal healthcare to America. He had what would have been considered a perfect opportunity with the Great Depression, but healthcare coverage took a back seat to unemployment and aging Americans. He was able to get a Social Security Legislation passed in 1935, but with the fear of its opposition from the American Medical Association (AMA) he left the health care piece out of the bill. But later in his administration was another opportunity, which was the National Health Act of 1939. This act was created by a New Deal reform committee when asked by President Roosevelt for a proposal for a national health reform that could be added to the Social Security Act, however again through persistent attacks of the AMA and other special interest groups Roosevelts attempt failed. Even though The Wagner Bill, another name for the National Health Act of 1939 failed, it evolved into the Wagner -Murray-Dingell Bill, after its Congressional sponsors over the...
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...Economic Terms Following the ending of the Second World War in 1945, the health division went through elevated stages of growth, validation, and classification. Health was reclassified as a “state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (World Health Organization, 1947). With this depiction, health began to be viewed in its social perspective, as an individual capability to manage the different atmospheres and day-to-day living. After that, health care sustained an authentic “transformation”, particularly staged in the U.S., with remarkable enhancement in the familiarity of processes for diagnosing and treating ill health. Fifty years ago, doctors were little more than diagnostic specialists, their actions being basically “limited to identification of…illness, the prediction of the likely outcome, and then the guidance of the patient and his family while the illness ran its full, natural course” (Report of the President’s Biomedical Research Panel 1976, appendix A, p. 3). Currently, we have more complicated explanations to what used to be multifaceted, or even ‘unfeasible’ issues: kidney dialysis, organ transplants, polio vaccines, arthroscopic surgical techniques, CT scanners, nuclear magnetic resonators, and in vitro fertilization. Approximately ten years ago, the various transplants were practically unidentified, while at present being extensively utilized. At present, the United States is unaccompanied in...
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...4/23/2014 Topic 8: The Roaring Twenties I. The Business Landscape & A Decade of Prosperity A. Consumer Impulse Vitalizes the Economy - Electricity > Courtesy of Thomas Alva Edison > Economy of the 1920s spurred by the introduction of affordable appliances to make domestic life less taxing > You name it: refrigerators, ranges, washers, vacuum cleaners, fans, razors, etc. > Almost a built in obsolescence – as newer & improved models came rolling off the lines – necessitating a new purchase every few years - Radios (principle means of media) - Automobiles > Cars introduced around turn of century (1900) > In the twenties – Henry Ford, using the technique of the mass assembly-line construction – introduces the Model-T – that was eminently affordable > New vehicle registrations will jump from 8 million in 1920 to 23 million in 1930` > Increased car production has ripple-effect in the economy - Supportive industries flourish – rubber, oil/gasoline, advertising, road construction, car parts, etc. B. New Ways to Make, Organize & Market Products - Make (Production) > Ford’s introduction of assembly line techniques to spur other industries to do same > Workers not expected to craft a product from start to finish but assigned to stations…performing repetitive and simpler tasks for entire shifts > Introduction of electric lighting...
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...Shatara Dixon May 21 2014 USH B Veronica Vredenburgh Japanese Internment On December 7, 1941 the Japanese took a strike at Pearl Harbor. The United States feared the Japanese would attack again, and war overran the country. The President of the United States, which was President Roosevelt at the time, had a lot of pressure on him to interfere with the issue. In response, on February 19 1942, the President published the Executive Order 9066 on. This commanded a relocation of over 120,000 American citizens. More than 80,000 of those imprisoned were citizens of America and 60,000 were children. Some families were split up and put in other camps. It is important for people to learn about this event because U.S. citizens, as ourselves, in WWII went through a lot just for being of Japanese descent. They were innocent American citizens who were stereotyped and treated like criminals. The life in camps were hard. The prisoners were only privileged to bring a few needs. Forty-eight hours were all they was given to evacuate their houses. They lived in military like barracks and was forced to use public areas to wash, do laundry, and eat. Many of the prisoners died from the lack of medical treatment and emotional stress. Some of them were taken to camps in the desert areas and had to deal with extreme heat. The camps were guarded by armed soldiers, and the ones who misbehaved were sent to a facility. Public Proclamation number 21 became effective in January of 1945. This allowed...
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...Mabel Staupers, a leader that has had a profound effect in shaping the nursing profession throughout the decades that demonstrated a remarkable capacity for growth and enhancement. She has had an extreme impact on the evolution and expansion of the field. In an honest attempt I will demonstrate how she played a part in changing the stigma that surrounded the diversity of nursing by showcasing how she impacted the nursing field and her dedication to it. On February 27, 1890, Mabel Stauper was born as Mabel Doyle to the parentage of Thomas and Pauline Doyle in Barbados, West Indies. However in 1903 Staupers immigrated to Harlem, New York with her parents, where she completed her primary and secondary education. In 1914, Mabel was accepted into Freedman’s Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, D.C, in which she graduated with honors, three years later. Upon graduating, Stauper started working as a private service nurse. Along with Louis T. Wright and James Wilson, Stauper founded the Booker T. Washington Sanitarium in Harlem, in which treated African Americans who suffered from tuberculosis. Upon conducting a detailed investigation in 1922 in regards to the health care needs in Harlem, Stauper found that African American treatment for tuberculosis was seriously shortcoming. In response to this crisis, a committee was founded by New York, where Stauper was appointed as executive secretary. She spent 12 years assuring that the residents of Harlem suffering from tuberculosis would...
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...The New Deal and the Pros and the Cons The Great Depression was the worst both economically and physically for the country. Roosevelt was elected in 1932 and began to bring relief with his New Deal. In his first 100 days as President, sixteen pieces of legislation were passed by Congress, He was re-elected twice, and quickly gained the trust of the American people. The New Deal policies helped the United States economy greatly, but some hurt the country . One particularly was the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which was later declared unconstitutional by Congress. Lots things also stayed very consistent in the New Deal. For example, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Social Security, since Americans were looking for any help they could get, these acts weren't seen as a detrimental at first. Overall, Roosevelt's New Deal was a success, but it also had lots of stumbling points. Roosevelt proposed to pay farmers for cutting back on production producing. It was supposed to help increase farm prices by decreasing the supply. The government had to deal with the existing surplus .There were a total of six million pigs slaughtered, ten million acres of cotton were burnt. The government wanted to create a shortage to drive the prices up for the farmers. It back fired. The farmers’ income would have been at least as high, if not higher even without Roosevelt's AAA. The farmers found themselves worse off because the National Recovery Administration...
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...Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunteers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting everything gets completely whack and next thing you know everybody is in the middle of an air raid we now know as "Pearl Harbor." Later, Roosevelt decides to retaliate against Japan and Colonel Doolittle is placed in charge and asks Rafe and Danny to join him and they accept knowing that the chances of them coming back is slim. But things between them are still tense. When lions roared It all started out with uneasy alliances between three of the world's great leaders -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Lithgow), Winston Churchill (Bob Hoskins), and Joseph Stalin -- as they met in 1943 for the Tehran Conference, in which they discussed the Allied drive against Germany and the possible postwar relationship between the three nations. Tehran Conference was the meeting place in Tehran, Iran and was the first between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. The goal of the meeting was to plan jointly for the overthrow of the Nazis. Key Points in conference: 1. An agreement was made stating that the Partisans of Yugoslavia should be supported by supplies and equipment and also by commando operations. 2. It was agreed that it would be most desirable if Turkey should come into war on the side of the Allies before the end of the year...
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...History of Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 The growth of factories in the United States around 1900, brought about what is known as sweatshops. These sweatshops usually employed the unemployable, women, children, and newly arriving immigrants. These individuals had few employment choices and were forced to accept low wages and terrible working conditions. Social advocates of the time pushed states to enact laws to protect all workers wages, allowing all employed individuals an adequate standard of living (National, 2007). In 1912, Massachusetts became the first state to mandate a specific wage for workers. By 1938, twenty-five states soon followed that lead with laws for their workers. However, the success of the wage laws was tempered by courts decisions. The U. S. Supreme Court decided that state minimum wage laws were unconstitutional. The Supreme Court stated that these laws violated employer and employee rights to negotiate fair wages. This decision made the Supreme Court one of the chief barriers to fair wages. The Supreme Court also hindered the child-labor laws. Amongst the noteworthy cases is Hammer v. Dagenhart where the Court held unconstitutional a Federal child-labor law by one vote. In 1923, the Supreme Court by a fine and small leeway invalided the District of Columbia law that establishes minimum wages for women in Adkins v. Children's Hospital. Even more devastating to the new laws in the 1930's, was the Court's decisions on societal based legislation...
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...Philippine defense preparations and operations. In April 1951 he was relieved of his command by President Truman. He died in Washington D.C. on April 5, 1951. Truman Henry Truman was born on may 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. He attended public schools in Independence and in 1901 he graduated from high school. After high school he worked briefly as a timekeeper for a railroad construction contractor. In 1906 he returned to Grandview to help his father run the family farm. He continued to work as a farmer for more than ten years. From 1905 to 1911 he served in the Missouri National Guard. As the US entered WWI he helped organize the 2nd regiment of Missouri Field Artillery. He was promoted to captain and given the command of the regiments Battery D. He eventually rose to the rank of colonel and sought to return to active duty at the outbreak of WWII. General George Marshall declined his offer to serve. On June 28, 1919 he married Bess Wallace. They had one child, Mary Margaret, born on February 17, 1924. In 1922 he was elected to be one of three judges...
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...in the election. The second document is about the conservative criticisms of the New Deal. Herbert Hoover’s anti-New Deal campaign speech centers on limiting government involvement and self-reliance of the people. Minnie Hardin’s letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, it comes straight from the heart of every conservative that looked down on these “reliefers” for “voting theirself a living at the expense of tax-payers” (184-185). Huey Long and the conservatives agreed on their disappointment of the New Deal, but they differed almost entirely on policy. I’m going to compare the two in order to find out how much both Hoover and Long actually differed. Huey Long was a Southern wing Democrat and former Governor of Louisiana that challenged the New Deal during the devastating Great Depression. The reforms of the New Deal failed to reduce poverty and the suffering of Americans. In 1932, he was elected into the United States Senate. There he introduced his “Soak the Rich Tax Bill.” The Senate instantly rejected this proposal. Senator Long decided to run for President because he whole heartedly believed in his “Share Our Wealth Plan.” He attracted more than five million Americans behind this plan. Long announced his intention to challenge Roosevelt, but was assassinated in 1935. He was killed for championing the poor over the rich, country people over the city folk, and the humble...
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...Who Benefited From The New Deal? The New Deal was constructed to combat the issues from the Great Depression. The Great Depression left too many people starving, jobless, and homeless, so Franklin D. Roosevelt swooped in to begin the healing. Twelve major laws were created and passed in the first hundred days of FDR’s presidency. Laws to stabilize private banking systems, establish farm recovery, refinance farm mortgages, create local employment offices and establish a national relief system just to name a few (Goldfield, et al., p. 699). This brought hope to the people, who had tirelessly wanted there way of living to get better. FDR’s first mission was to fix the banking issues by lending government assistance to stable and needy banks. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was developed by Congress, which guaranteed bank deposits up to 2, 500 (Goldfield, et al., p. 698). In addition, FDR and Congress constructed the Securities and Exchange Commission created to regulate the stock market,” and the “Glass- Steagall Act that separated investment and commercial banking to curtail risky speculation was passed” (Goldfield, et al., p. 699). The New Deal key goal was to revamp the job market. One of the New Deals most vital players, Harry Hopkins directed and endorsed the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. FERA furnished funds to state and local agencies, spending over $3 billion before ending in 1935 (Goldfield, et al., p. 699). $billion dollars...
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