Following the Miracle at Dunkirk, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave an impassioned speech called where he promised that the British would fight the Nazi threat even if the British Isles were subjugated and starving. In addition to steeling the British resolve, the speech was designed to encourage the United States to get involved in the war. Churchill ended the speech by claiming the British would carry on the fight “until the New World (a.k.a. the United States) with all its power and might, comes forth to the rescue and liberation of the old.”

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A film from 1960 called depicted the American south during the Great Depression. It focused on an Agent from the TVA, who had to navigate racism in the south and also deal with concerns from locals about the loss of their property due to eminent domain. Although the TVA provided electricity to areas that had never had it, built much needed infrastructure, and created thousands of jobs for locals (all paid for by the federal government), it also increased distrust of the government in the region as some families were forced to relocate. While those forced to move were adequately reimbursed by the government, they continued to resent the issue because they had to abandon their homes, land, and property.

Herbert Hoover generally avoided direct federal aid to combat the Great Depression; however, late in his term, in 1932, he created the . This was designed to stimulate the American economy by providing emergency loans to banks, savings-and-loans, railroads, and private businesses. It did provide some benefits, but it was too little, too late. It also provided aid for capitalists and entrepreneurs while ignoring the needs of the downtrodden. New York City’s mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia complained that it was a “millionaire’s dole.”

In order to highlight the regional disparity of economic distress, a group of New Dealers compiled and presented it to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt called the region the nation’s “number 1 economic problem” and used the information to encourage opponents from this region to embrace his New Deal programs.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a strong believer in technocratic rule. In his first administration, he assembled a team of advisers made up of experts and academics known as . This team included Frances Perkins, Harold Ickes, and Louis D. Brandeis.

was the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied southern France. It occurred in summer, 1944, a few months after D-Day and was designed to link up with the D-Day forces from Normandy.

Actor, singer, football star, thespian, lawyer, and polyglot was a critic of McCarthyism and the Red Scare. In 1956, the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed this man and demanded that he answer whether he was a card-carrying member of the communist party. This celebrity refused to testify before congress. As a Black man he had vocally criticized the United States for its poor record on civil rights. He accused congress of putting him on trial not for his political beliefs but because he had fought for better rights for minorities. “You are the un-Americans,” he told them, “and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.” He had previously had his passport revoked and lost his NCAA All-American football honors because he sang a benefit concert for earthquake victims in China (which happened to be a communist country). Since he could not travel outside of the country, he sang a benefit concert for Canadians at the International Peace Arch on the border of the U.S. and Canada.

True or false: according o the lecture, conflict framing is good for the media.

Exemplified by the fictitious June Cleaver, married young, had more children than previous eras, and rarely got divorced. Like Cleaver, they were expected to stay out of the workforce, instead taking care of the home and the family.