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• Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 1923.
– Issue: minimum wages
• Gitlow v. New York, 1925.
– Issue: Radicals and 1 st Amendment rights
• Schechter Poultry Corp. v. US, 1935.
– Issue: Constitutionality of New Deal programs
• US v. Butler, 1936.
– Issue: Constitutionality of New Deal programs
• NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp., 1937.
– Issue: Interstate Commerce and control of labor

ND
• 2 ND NEW DEAL SHIFTED TO THE “LEFT”—WHY?
• POLICIES:
– SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1935
– REVENUE ACTS 1935, 1936
– SUPREME COURT AND “COURT PACKING”
• **RECESSION OF 1937**
– AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT 1938
– US HOUSING AUTHORITY ACT 1937
– FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT 1938
• ELECTIONS OF 1938 “END OF THE NEW DEAL”
• ASSESSING THE NEW DEAL

• AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM
• LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS
– GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY 1933
– MONTEVIDEO CONFERENCE 1933
– RESCENDING THE PLATT AMENDMENT 1934
– ACT OF HAVANA 1940
• ACTS OF AGGRESSION BY THE AXIS POWERS:
– 1931 INVASION OF MANCHURIA BY JAPAN
– 1935 ITALY ATTACKED ETHIOPIA
– 1936 GERMANY REOCCUPIED THE RHINELAND
– 1936 SPANISH CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT
– 1937 JAPAN DECLARES WAR ON CHINA, REVOKES OPEN DOOR
POLICY
– 1938 GERMAN ANNEXES AUSTRIA
– MUNICH CONFERENCE
– 1939 ITALY ANNEXES ALBANIA
– 1939 HITLER-STALIN PACT
– 1939 GERMANY INVADES POLAND; RUSSIA INVADES FINLAND

WW2
• Sept. 3, 1939 Eng. And France declare war on
Germany
• US officially neutral—Neutrality Act
• Totalitarian governments:
– Fascism
– Nazism
– Communism
– Military Dictatorships
• Steps to US entry into the war
– American Neutrality 2 Views
– German Aggression in Europe
– Quarantine Speech 1937
– Executive Agreement of 1940
– Selective Service Act 1940
– Act of Havana

• Election of 1940
– Candidates --issues -- results
• Lend-Lease Act 1941
• Undeclared Naval War
– German subs sink/attack the Robin Moor, USS Greer, Kearny and
Reuben James
• Germany invaded Russia
• Atlantic Charter issued
• National Emergency declared Nov. 1941
• Dec. 7, 1941 —Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
• Why?
• Declaration of War Dec. 8, Dec. 11 Germany declared war on
US
• Home front:
– Govt.: economy, raised taxes, forbid strikes, rationed all products, depression ended