The Depression
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," lyrics by Yip Harburg, music by Jay Gorney (1931)
They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob,
When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job.
They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead,
Why should I be standing in line, just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime;
Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,
Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,
And I was the kid with the drum!
Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.
Why don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,
Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,
And I was the kid with the drum!
Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.
Say, don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?
• Herbert Hoover 19281932
• Smoot-Hawley Tariff
1929
• “Bonus Army” 1932
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
1932-1945
• New Deal
• Civilian Conservation
Corps (C.C.C.)
• National Industrial
Recovery Act
(N.I.R.A.)
• Tennessee Valley
Authority (T.V.A.)
• Agricultural
Adjustment Act
(A.A.A.)
• “Alphabet Soup
Agencies”
• Townsend Plan
• Father Coughlin
• Huey P. Long
• Works Progress
Administration
(W.P.A.)
• Harry Hopkins
• Social Security Act
1935
• Wagner Act 1935
• C.I.O (Congress of
Industrial
Organizations)
• John M. Keynes
• “Keynesian
Economics”
Foreign Policy Between the Wars
• Herbert Hoover
• London Conference
1930
• Manchuria
• Manchukuo 1931
• Stimson NonRecognition Doctrine
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Isolationism
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Good Neighbor Policy
Hitler
Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Berlin-Rome-Tokyo
Axis”
• Spanish Civil War
1936-1939
• Munich Agreement
1938
• Stalin
• Vichy France
• Winston Churchill
• Battle of Britain
• Atlantic Charter
World War II
• Battle of Midway
June, 1942
• El Alamein October,
1942
• Stalingrad 1942-1943
• Normandy Invasion
June, 1944
• Fair Employment
Practices
Commission
• Thomas E. Dewey
• Chain Kai-shek
• General Joseph
Stillwell
• Stalin
• Yalta Conference
February 1945
• Charles De Gaulle
• United Nations
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Harry S. Truman
1945-1952
Beginning of the Cold War
• Harry S. Truman
1945-1952
• Stalin
• “Iron Curtain” speech
1946
• Winston Churchill
• Truman Doctrine
1947
• Marshall Plan 1947
• George Marshall
• Tito
• N.A.T.O. (North
Atlantic Treaty
Organization)
• “Baby Boom”
• G.I. Bill of Rights
• Fair Deal 1945
• Employment Act of
1946
• Taft-Hartley Act
• Henry A. Wallace
• J. Strom Thurmond
• “Dixiecrats”
• Thomas E. Dewey
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Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Tse Dung
Douglas MacArthur
N.A.T.O.
H.U.A.C. (House UnAmerican Activities
Committee)
• Alger Hiss
• McCarran Internal
Security Act 1950
• Joseph McCarthy
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Adlai Stevenson