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America’s Dustbowl, Cimarron County, Oklahoma. April 1936

How the New Deal and the Second World War Transformed a Generation and Its Children: Meet the Parents. Joseph Plumb Martin was 16 years old when he enlisted in the 8 th Regiment of the American Continental Army in 1776. This was no unusual because the median age was 16.

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America’s Dustbowl, Cimarron County, Oklahoma. April 1936

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  1. How the New Deal and the Second World War Transformed a Generation and Its Children: Meet the Parents

  2. Joseph Plumb Martin was 16 years old when he enlisted in the 8th Regiment of the American Continental Army in 1776. This was no unusual because the median age was 16.

  3. America’s Dustbowl, Cimarron County, Oklahoma. April 1936

  4. Greenbelt, Maryland

  5. 450 children died when a school exploded in New London, Texasin March, 1937 The death toll was so high because the community had constructed a new consolidated school campus with support from the New Deal

  6. Charles Atlas

  7. Listening to “Jack Armstrong, All American Boy”

  8. “The Shadow”

  9. Benny Goodman

  10. “Public Enemy” 1931

  11. Jackie Coogan, “The Kid” 1921

  12. The Little Rascals

  13. Shirley Temple

  14. “Wild Boys of the Road” 1933

  15. The Hardy Family, 1937

  16. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney

  17. U.S. Homefront • U.S. Government takes lessons from The New Deal and WW I to mobilize for total war • War Production Board • War Manpower Commission • Office of Price Administration • Office of War Mobilization (including Office of War Information)

  18. Liberty Ship

  19. Rosie the Riveter

  20. Rising Visibility for Minorities • Executive Order #8802 • Executive Order #9066

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