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New Deal
The New Deal was a economic and political policies of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in the 1930s, which aimed to solve the problems of the Great Depression by providing relief for the unemployed and launching efforts to stimulate economic recovery. The New Deal built on reforms of the progressive era to expand greatly an American-style welfare state -
100 Days
During FDR's first 100 days in office, the FDR Administration passed 15 separate and major bills through Congress. Roosevelt promised the American people a New Deal and he was delivering. He proposed bills that were targeted towards Reform, Relief, and Recovery. Some of these include AAA, TVA, HOLC, NRA, PWA etc. -
Neutrality Act of (1939)
This act stipulated that European democracies might buy American munitions, but only if they could pay in cash and transport them in their own ships. The terms were known as "Cash-and-Carry," it represented an effort to avoid war debts and protect American arms-carriers from torpedo attacks. -
ABC-1 agreement
An agreement between Britain and the United States developed at a conference in Washington, D.C., between January 29-March 27, 1941, that should the United States enter World War II, the two nations and their allies would coordinate their military planning, making a priority of protecting the British Commonwealth. That would mean "getting Germany first" in the Atlantic and the European theater and fighting more defensively on other military fronts. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was an American naval base in Hawaii where Japanese warplanes destroyed numerous ships and caused 3,000 casualties on December 7, 1941--a day that, in President Roosevelt's words, was to "live in infamy," the attack brought the United States into World War 2. -
End of War World II
World War II started on September 1, 1939 and ended on September 2, 1945 after 6 years of fighting. A month before the war officially ended on August 6, 1945 the U.S. drooped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan and another on Nagasaki on August 9th. These nuclear bombs caused roughly 225, 000 deaths. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945 and Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945.
