Contents

• 1. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
• The Agricultural Marketing Act (1929)
• The London Naval Treaty (1930)
• The Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)
• The Wickersham Commission (1931)
• The Veterans’ Bonus Bill (1931)
• The Muscle Shoals Joint Resolution (1931)
• The War Debt Moratorium (1931)
• The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
• The Emergency Relief Bill (1932)
• 2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
• The Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)
• The Civilian Conservation Corps (1933)
• The National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
• The Social Security Act (1935)
• The National Labor Relations Act (1935)
• The Wealth Tax (1935)
• Supreme Court Reorganization (1937)
• Executive Reorganization (1937-1938)
• The Ludlow Amendment (1938)
• The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
• The Neutrality Revision (1939)
• The Selective Service Act (1940)
• Lend-Lease (1941)
• The War Labor Disputes Act (1943)
• 3. Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
• The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb (1945)
• Price Controls (1946)
• The Truman Doctrine (1947)
• The Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
• Truman’s Loyalty Program (1947)
• The Marshall Plan (1948)
• Civil Rights (1948)
• The Housing Act (1949)
• The North Atlantic Treaty (1949)
• National Health Insurance (1949)
• Point Four (1949)
• Intervention in Korea (1950)
• McCarthyism (1950)
• The Dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur (1951)