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223 matches to New Deal
Brains Trust. 1932. Roosevelt’s advisers on New Deal.
CWA. Civil Works Admin. US New Deal project employed 4M.
Hundred Days. 1815. March 20 to July 8; Napoleon’s escape from Elba to his second abdication. 1933. Began Roosevelt’s administration. New Deal enacted.
MacLeish, Archibald. 1892-1982. US poet laureate of the New Deal. Happy Marriage 1924.
New Deal. 1933-9. Roosevelt’s economic policy vs Depression. TVA, CWA, WPA.
Public Works of Art Project. (PWAP) 1933-4. New Deal. Gave work to unemployed artists. WPA.
Roosevelt, Franklin. 1882-1945. US president 1933-45. New Deal 1933-. Pacifist until Pearl Harbor. Four Freedoms.
SEC. Securities and Exchange Commission. 1934. Founded under New Deal.
Socialist Party. 1901-30. US party advocating socialism based on earlier Social Democratic and Social Labor (1876) Parties. Ideas applied to New Deal.
TVA. Tennessee Valley Authority. New Deal hydroelectric project.
Willkie, Wendell. 1892-1944. New Deal critic. US Presidential candidate 1940. One World 1943.
Aasen, Ivar. 1813-96. Developed New Norwegian language, officially adopted, 1907.
Abstract Expressionism. 1940s New York style of Pollock, Rothko. Spontaneous expression, free of traditional values. Expressionism.
Action Française. 1898-1945. French right wing political movement and newspaper.
Alexander VI. Pope. Demarcation Bull 1493 divided newly discovered land between Spain, Portugal. Tordesillas.
Antonine Wall. 142. Scotland. North of Hadrian’s. Abandoned ~196. Antoninus.
Antoninus, Pius. 86-161. Roman Emperor 138-. Built Antonine Wall.
ANZAC. Australian+New Zealand forces in WWI. Gallipoli.
Armstrong, Louis. 1900-71. US New Orleans Jazz trumpeter and band leader.
Ayala Plan. 1911. Zapata to renew Mexican Revolution, return land to communal ownership.
Bacon, Francis. 1561-1626. English chancellor and philosopher. First king’s counsel. Favoured inductive over deductive reasoning. Separated Science from religion. New Atlantis 1625. B. Scientific method: Novum Organum 1620. Essays 1625.
Baïf, Jean Antoine de. 1532-89. French Pléiade poet. New metrical forms. Founded Academy of Music and Poetry 1571, in Paris.
Baker, Herbert. 1862-1946. English architect: Pretoria government buildings; New Delhi.
Basil I. 813-886. Byzantine Emperor, 867-. Defeated Arabs. New Golden Age. Founded Macedonian dynasty.
Beaverbrook, Lord. (Maxwell Aitken). 1879-1964. Canadian/British newspaper magnate, politician. Advocated free trade within Commonwealth.