HIST 208 Study Guide, Part III

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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
- New Deal
- Social Security

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.
- Fair Deal
- McCarthyism

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