Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" - A Reflection on the Great Depression

1. 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?

2. Herbert Hoover 1928-1932 Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1929 “Bonus Army” 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932-1945

3. 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

4. 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”

5. Herbert Hoover London Conference 1930 Manchuria Manchukuo 1931 Stimson Non-Recognition Doctrine Franklin D. Roosevelt Isolationism Good Neighbor Policy Hitler Mussolini Francisco Franco Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis” Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 Munich Agreement 1938 Foreign Policy Between the Wars

6. Stalin Vichy France Winston Churchill Battle of Britain Atlantic Charter

7. 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 World War II

8. Dwight Eisenhower Harry S. Truman 1945-1952

9. 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 Beginning of the Cold War

10. Henry A. Wallace J. Strom Thurmond “Dixiecrats” Thomas E. Dewey

11. Chiang Kai-shek Mao Tse Dung Douglas MacArthur N.A.T.O. H.U.A.C. (House Un-American Activities Committee) Alger Hiss McCarran Internal Security Act 1950 Joseph McCarthy Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson