Transcript Franklin Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882 and died

By: Shirlencia Gholston
Mr. R.D. Peterson
HIS 202
Spring 2009
The Best Leader award goes to Franklin D.
Roosevelt (FDR)
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Franklin Roosevelt was born
January 30, 1882 and died
April 12, 1945.
He was the 32nd President of
the United States.
This best leader award goes
to Roosevelt because during
the Great Depression of the
1930s, Roosevelt created a
New Deal.
It provided relief for the
unemployed.
Also recovery of the
economy, and reform the
economic and banking
systems.
The Person in the Right Place at the Right Time
award goes Herbert Hoover
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Hoover’s ambitions were in
public service.
He believed wealthy men like
himself had responsibilities to
society.
Hoover got his chance to start
out in a high-profile position
when he happened to be in the
right place at the right time in
London at the outbreak of the
war.
He was asked to take over the
problem of getting food to the
people of devastated Belgium.
So he jump to the task of feeding
people in a war zone and saved
hundreds of thousands of lives.
The Wisest Decision Made By a U.S. President
award goes to Harry S. Truman
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On December 7, 1941 Peal Harbor ( the American naval base in Hawaii)
was attack by the Japanese.
The U.S. wanted to be neutral but after the attack the United States had no
choice but to enter World War II.
In 1945 Harry S. Truman became president and made a wise decision to
drop the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan to end the war
quickly in order to prevent more disastrous land invasion.
If Truman would not have authorized for the atomic bomb to be drop many
more American would have been killed.
The atomic bomb killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and
80,000 in Nagasaki .
The Stupidest Law award goes to the Lynch Law
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This award goes to the lynch
law because the law allow
whites to punish blacks
suspected of a crime without
due process of law.
They were punish by being
rape, hung, mob, and etc.
Many lynching were
photograph and could see
clearly.
Also they would use the
photograph for souvenirs.
85 African American were
lynched in the United States
in 1890.
The Worst Leader award goes to Warren G. Harding
•Warren G. Harding was born November 2, 1865 and died
August 2, 1923.
• Harding was the 29th President and one of the worst
presidents in American History.
•Much of this is due to the number of scandals his appointees
were involved in.
•He was also convicted of bribery, fraud, conspiracy, and other
forms of wrongdoing.
•Harding had no illusions about his intelligence and capacity for
leadership.
The Person to be admired award goes to Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. (MLK)
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929 and died
April 4, 1968.
King accomplished many thing during his life to stop segregation
and have equal rights for all African Americans.
He lead the Civil Rights Movement and the 1955 Montgomery Bus
Boycott.
Dr. King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace
Prize.
Many African Americans admired Dr. King because of this famous
speech “I Have A Dream”.
The Worst Social Movement in America award goes
to the Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)
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The AAA tried to raise farm prices in 1933.
It used proceeds from a new tax to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and
animals.
The socialist reasoning was that lower production would, in turn, increase prices.
Farmers killed off certain animals and crops as they were told to by the AAA.
Many could not believe that the federal government was condoning such an action
when many Americans were starving.
The Best Social Movement in America award goes
to the Work Process Administration (WPA)
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This award goes to the WPA because it provided almost 8 million jobs and income to
the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States from 1935 to I943.
The program built many public buildings, projects and roads.
Also the program involved teaching new skills and the project's original legislation
went forward with a strong emphasis on family, training and building people up.
It fed children and redistributed food, clothing, and housing.
Almost every community in America had a park, bridge or school constructed by the
agency.
The Best U.S. Foreign Policy award goes to the
Good Neighbor Policy
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The Good Neighbor Policy was the foreign policy of the administration of
United States President D. Roosevelt towards the countries of Latin
America.
This best U.S. foreign policy award goes to the good neighbor policy
because the United States should have good relationships with its
neighbors.
The Good Neighbor Policy meant that the United States would keep its eye
on Latin America.
The impacts of this policy was the dramatic decline in the demeaning
stereotyping of Latinos by the U.S. government, media, and entertainment
industry.
Also this it boom in hemispheric trade and accompanying economic
recovery.
The U.S. Worst Military Involvement award goes to
goes to World War I
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World War I was fought
though 1914-1918.
It was a global military
conflict.
Which involved the majority
of the world’s great powers
the Entente powers and
Central powers.
Over 70 million military
personnel were mobilized in
one of the largest wars in
history.
15 million people were killed
making it one of the deadliest
conflicts in human history.