The New Deal and the Era of Reform, 1929-1945

Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

 * Republican
 * VP: Charles Curtis
 * Secretary of State: Henry L. Stimson
 * Major items:
 * National Origins Immigration Act, 1929
 * Panic and Great Depression
 * Stock market crash, 1929
 * Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 1930
 * Hoovervilles

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)

 * Elected for four terms
 * Democrat
 * VP: John Nance Farner, Henry Wallace, Harry S. Truman
 * Major items:
 * New Deal
 * "Alphabet Soup" of programs
 * World War II
 * Labor and economic reforms

Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)

 * Democrat
 * VP: Alben Barkley
 * Major items:
 * World War II ends
 * Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
 * Taft-Harley Act, 1947
 * Truman Doctrine, 1947
 * Marshall Plan, 1947
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949
 * Korean War, 1950-1953
 * "Fair Deal"