The New Deal & World War II

The New Deal and World War II

The New Deal and World War II reshaped the American state and its global role. Domestic economic recovery programs expanded federal authority, while total wartime mobilization transformed the United States into the world's chief industrial power and military leader, paving the way for post-war international institutions, economic hegemony, and Cold War diplomacy.

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Year	The New Deal and World War II
1871	Marriage (Henry Cabot Lodge, Anna "Nanny" Cabot Mills Davis)
1880	Birth of George Catlett Marshall Jr. (Period: December 31, 1880, Location: Uniontown, Pennsylvania, United States)
1882	Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Period: January 30, 1882, Location: Hyde Park, New York, United States)
1884	Birth of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (Period: October 11, 1884, Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1890	Birth of Harry Lloyd Hopkins (Period: August 17, 1890, Location: Sioux City, Iowa, United States)
1893	Birth of Dean Gooderham Acheson (Period: April 11, 1893, Location: Middletown, Connecticut, United States)
1898	Spanish-American War
1905	Marriage (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt)
1914	World War I
1917	Marriage (Dean Gooderham Acheson, Alice Caroline Stanley Acheson)
1918	Death due to the Spanish Flu Pandemic
1930	Black Civil Rights Support Activities Marriages of George Catlett Marshall Jr. (to Elizabeth Carter Coles and Katherine Boyce Tupper)
1933	New Deal Inception of the New Deal New Deal Era Social Reform Movements New Deal Support Activities Establishment of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
1935	Launch of the "My Day" Newspaper Column Administration of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
1937	Marriages of Harry Lloyd Hopkins (to Ethel Gross, Barbara Duncan, and Louise Gill Macy)
1939	World War II Support for Marian Anderson's Concert Large-scale U.S. Army reform
1941	Pacific War European Theater (World War II) Issuance of the Atlantic Charter Promotion of the Lend-Lease Act Churchill-Stalin diplomatic negotiations Enactment of the Lend-Lease Act Response to the Attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor and American Entry into the War
1942	Japanese American Internment
1944	Conception of the United Nations Preparation for the Normandy landings
1945	Early International Human Rights Diplomacy Chinese Civil War Mediation of the Chinese ceasefire Yalta Conference Assistance at the Yalta Conference Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1946	Establishment of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Death of Harry Lloyd Hopkins
1947	Formation of the Truman Doctrine Advocacy for the Marshall Plan Proposal of the Marshall Plan
1948	Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1949	Creation of NATO Debate over the Establishment of the Chinese Communist Party Regime
1950	Korean War Target of McCarthyism criticism
1955	Vietnam War
1959	Death of George Catlett Marshall Jr.
1962	Cuban Missile Crisis Advice Death of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
1971	Death of Dean Gooderham Acheson
Unknown	Marriage Major events

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New England	Boston’s prestigious family: The Bramin class Imperialism and Naval Expansion Theory Spanish-American War and Overseas Expansion World War I and International Diplomacy The New Deal and World War II Intellectuals and Journalism Policy Network Black Intellectuals
South	The Wilson Family The Roosevelt Administration Southern politician

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