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FDR’s Critics

FDR’s Critics. Election of 1936. Franklin Roosevelt (D) 60.8% Alfred Landon (R-KS) 36.5 %. Huey Long (D-LA) “The Kingfish”. Share Our Wealth Plan 1936 film clip. Share Our Wealth Plan. Free education for all Americans Guaranteed adequate income A house, a car, and old age benefits

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FDR’s Critics

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  1. FDR’s Critics

  2. Election of 1936 Franklin Roosevelt (D) 60.8% Alfred Landon (R-KS) 36.5 %

  3. Huey Long (D-LA)“The Kingfish” Share Our Wealth Plan 1936 film clip

  4. Share Our Wealth Plan • Free education for all Americans • Guaranteed adequate income • A house, a car, and old age benefits • 100% tax on all incomes over $1m • Appropriation of all fortunes over $5m

  5. Father Charles CoughlinNational Union for Social Justice 1936 Film Criticism of the Federal Reserve and FDR

  6. Dr. Francis E. Townsend Townsend Plan

  7. Townsend Plan • Pay $200 each month to unemployed Americans over 60 years of age • Must spend the entire $200 in a single month • Thousands of Townsend Clubs by 1935 with 5 million followers

  8. Upton Sinclair Democratic Socialists

  9. More Critics in Popular Culture • Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie • Harold Gray, Little Orphan Annie Comic Strip

  10. Flint Michigan, GM and Fisher Body Plant, Feb. 1937 Flint sit-down strike website

  11. U.S. Supreme CourtChief Justice Charles Evans Hughes

  12. FDR’s Court Packing Scheme • Fireside ChatMarch 9, 1937 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16607

  13. Sit-down Strikers

  14. Threat of Violence was from the Flint Alliance while the National Guard Protected the Strikers

  15. Continuing Problems with Unemployment • Social Security deductions and rising unemployment in 1937-1938First payments not made until 1940 Ida May FullJanuary 31, 1940

  16. The Larger World • 1932 National Socialist Party takes power in Germany. March 23, 1933 Adolf Hitler takes over the German government • Nanking Massacre (Japanese invasion of Nanking) 1937 • Germany invades Poland, 1939 • By 1940, Germany controls most all of Europe with the exception of Great Britain

  17. Election of 1940 Franklin Roosevelt (D) 54.6% Wendell Wilkie (R-IN) 44.8%

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