HIST 2112 Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture I Franklin Delano Roosevelt II Hoover and the Depression A Voluntary Cooperation B Reconstruction Finance Corporation C FDR WINS a Bonus Army III The New Deal A Five Agendas 1 Relieve immediate Suffering 2 Save banks increase money supply 3 Jumpstart industry 4 Address the agricultural crisis 5 make work programs B Federal Emergency Relief Act FERA C The Banking Act of 1933 a FDIC D National Recovery Agency NRA E Agricultural Adjustment Act AAA F Make Work Programs a Civilian Conservation Corps CCC b Works Progress Administration WPA c Tennessee Valley Authority TVA IV Other Important New Deal Programs A Securities Exchange Commission SEC B Social Security Act C Wagner Act of 1935 and the NLRB V Backlash against the New Deal A Conservative Businessmen B Radicals C Others 1 Townsend Clubs 2 Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin a Why Outline of Current Lecture I World War II and the Economic Recovery Isolationism America tries to have nothing to do with Europe Hitler A GNP B Good working conditions wages union membership C The New Deal and Mobilization a War Production Board b War Manpower Commission c Office of Price Administration II African Americans and War Mobilization A 700 000 move north to get work B Segregation and racism there too a Detroit Race Riot C Employment discrimination a Philadelphia Transit Strike 1944 D Some Progress a The Federal Employment Practices Committee E Black self empowerment III Women and Mobilization A Pink color jobs B Industrial Jobs C Government support a Reflects traditional views of women D Gender Discrimination at the factory E Latchkey Kids F Working Experience IV Japanese Americans and Radical Hysteria A March 1942 Relocation begins B Civil Rights violations C Supreme Court Assents a Hirabatashi v United States 1943 b Korematsu v United States 1944 D Irony Current Lecture Daddy s gone to War The Home Front in WWII I World War II and the Economic Recovery II A GNP Gross National Product B Good working conditions wages union membership Famine Feast Income increases 68 during war Overall wages increase 27 National Recovery Agency Rolls over into war wages are set high to keep factory workers motivated to put out a lot of product for war ENDS DEPRESSION C The New Deal and Mobilization The New Deal changes governments relationship with people WWII reinforces super powerful government a War Production Board WPB basically like the NRA from the new deal militarized Regulates type and amount of industrial manufacturing during war b War Manpower Commission Government provides perimeters and guidelines so people can do the jobs they should do regulates labors balance between military people and civilians c Office of Price Administration People who provide ration cards After WWII we have the cold war with Russia You can be drafted African Americans and War Mobilization A 700 000 move north to get work WWII provides an opportunity to escape segregation discrimination Chicago B Segregation and racism there too people tired of blacks taking over a Detroit Race Riot 1943 fight between group of white blacks killed 23 blacks 9 whites martial law C Employment discrimination You were not treated equally given the worst job paid less employers can give every black person a different title to justify lower pay White employees don t like working next to blacks a Philadelphia Transit Strike 1944 All white workforce walked off job because of black workers b Black men cannot fight in war c The Nazi s are white supremacists it s not a good idea to bring in blacks to fight xD D Some Progress b The Federal Employment Practices Committee A Phillip Randolph and Roosevelt makes it illegal to discriminate against race for war work jobs III IV E Black self empowerment A Phillip Randolph union leader for blacks Women and Mobilization Go into work force during WWII A Pink color jobs women secretarial work gender specific jobs B Industrial Jobs 1 5 workers in factory will be women after WWII especially African American women C Government support Rosie the Riveter a Reflects traditional views of women you might make women turn into men by letting them work men s jobs b JOB IS TEMPORARY D Gender Discrimination at the factory E Latchkey Kids Government began federal daycare during the war You have to work in a factory have to leave them home alone Or when you were off you watched your friends kids vice versa F Working Experience moms have to leave jobs disappointment because of loss of independence Japanese Americans and Radical Hysteria A March 1942 Relocation begins Government initiated Roosevelt You have a week to settle your affairs HUGE financial loss for Japanese community on west coast B Civil Rights violations C Supreme Court Assents a Hirabatashi v United States 1943 b Korematsu v United States 1944 He is a soldier he says hell no he won t go government makes him D Irony the glory of the 442nd regimented combat team