LAD #37: Brown v. Board of Education

Separate but equal was considered constitutional with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, although this was brought to question with the Brown v. Board of Education. Linda Brown, a black school girl, was forced to walk three miles to get to her designed school in Kansas; however there was a white school located 7 miles from her house. Linda was not able to attend the closer to school due to her race. Linda Brown's parents proposed that it was wrong for their child to be segregated in this manner. The school board said that they were being realistic and told her parents that Linda should get used to segregation as she gets older. The case made its way to the supreme court where it was decided that it was unconstitutional with the fourteen amendment of equal rights in mind. However, this was only the beginning of a battle for equal treatment that African Americans faced.

LAD #36: Truman Doctrine

The Cold War was the first to have a political impact, the United States and Soviet Union would precipitate in idealogical battle. President Harry Truman first addresses this conflict in his doctrine which talked about Greece. Allied troops forced the Germany military out of Greece after the war ended leaving it in ruin. Soviet troops prevented reconstruction due to hostilities along the northern Greek border.  Great Britain and the United Nations did little to help Greece so the United States needed to step in with supplies that would equip the Greek army. Truman also acknowledged that the United States needed to help modernization in Turkey. Other countries help in assisting Turkey, th United States would be the fulfilling its role as a promoter of democratic freedom as well as becoming the protector of the free world against the spread of Communism. Truman asked Congress to send a small military force and $750 million to help with reconstruction and modernization in Turkey and Greece.

LAD #35: FDR's Executive Order #9066

In FDR's executive order, the power to declare specific areas as military locations was given to the Secretary of War. This was necessary to prevent corruption in the US and foreign espionage during this time of war. The order stated that all non military people will not be allowed in these areas, and that the Secretary of War has the responsibility of proving necessities (transportation, shelter, food, and water). The military districts eventually led to the creation of Japanese interment camps. FDR stressed the need for citizens to remain loyal.

LAD #34: FDR's Declaration of War

When asking for a declaration of war of Japan Franklin Roosevelt said the famous words "December 7th, 1941...a date which shall live infamy". He states that the Japanese used a surprise attack that was purposefully aimed at the Americans, America was at a time of peace with Japan and was planning on continuing this. The ambassadors or Japanese letter ever indicated that any time of war or attack. The attack must also have planned due to the distance between the United States and Japan. FDR also acknowledges that other ships just outside Hawaii have been attack, and pushes the fact that the attack was planned and meant to be a surprise; the United States needed to go to war.

LAD #33: FDR's First Inaugural Address

His speech begins by outlining the issue that the public of America is facing, these include unemployment, and lack of circulation of currency by credit through America. FDR explains that these issues come from materialistic performed by the "The money changers" who "have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization". The ways of President

HardingCoolidgeHoover were too concentrated with economic and fiscal ways of the time, the social benefits need to be restore in order to restore the happiness of society. The speech rights with an aura of an almost deity of looking down to the people straying from the ways in which the government created a pathway to greatness. He states that America needs to make its way from a monetary society to an honest day of work. Roosevelt outlined a series of projects and programs that were designed to directly stimulate people with ethical regeneration as opposed to fiscal this-quenching. Outlining these programs with conserving and using the nation's natural resources, devoting men to work, and preventing a future crisis. He knew that his leadership would puss the limits of prior authority but he asked for popular support and the use of the elasticity of the Constitution as justification. FDR stated that his foal was to support and protect the ideal of American democracy.

LAD #32: Kellogg Briand Peace Pact

The Kellogg Briand Peace Pact in 1928 was passed by Secretary of State Frank Kellogg, President Calvin Coolidge and the French foreign minister Briand.  This claimed that war was a outdated and inhumane act that should not be used in foreign policy, only for defensive purposes. The pact had three parts, the first said that war could not be used to resolve conflicts between two or more countries. The second states that all conflicts must be resolved with the use of diplomacy, and the third claimed that additional countries who wished to join could. The agreement was too idealistic and unrealistic thus it was not heard around the world. Other than this attempt to to make peace among nations, Coolidge's presidency was uneventful.

LAD #31 Fourteen Points

Wilson response to the defeats that the Allied Powers experienced after Russia left the Eastern Front. He declares that the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was cowardly, as it gave the Russians the power to leave Britain and France to fight on the western fronts, while they made peace with the Central Powers. Wilson questions why Russia would agree to  treaty that allows the belligerents to keep hold of all occupied territory. He infers that this does not justify the protection of the Russian public and advocacy of democracy. Arguing that the event is a misrepresentation of peace for the old only know of it from Russians and German perspectives and relations. Due to the uncertainty of the preservation of global democracy Wilson declares that the US must take part in the war and ensure that the protection of the citizens of the world. Wilson pints to the future allowance of democracy and that it calls for an end to economic barriers, colonialism and imperialistic ideals, and others. This was the proposition for a League of Nations.