LAD #37

Brown v. Board of Education

• Topeka, Kansas
• Linda Brown
• African-American
• third grader
• wanted to attend the white school instead of walk a much longer distance to the black school
• NAACP and the Browns lost locally, but they appealed the decision all the way to the Supreme Court
• stated that the African-American children had developed an inferiority complex
• segregation that made them see themselves as inferior
•  supreme court
• "separate but equal" between races isn't actually equal at all
• all public schools had to be racially integrated
• didn't actually happen for many years
• beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

LAD #36

Truman Doctrine Summarized

• concerned with Greece and Turkey
• Greeks have asked for economic assistance
• wants to support them
• Turkey needs help too
• World War II came about due to countries trying to impose their will on other countries
• Greece and Turkey are being oppressed 
• Domino theory
• requests Congress to give 400 million to Turkey and 350 million to Greece for aid
• investing in world peace
• 341 billion to WWII

LAD #33

Franklin Roosevelt

• says he will assist you all with firm leadership
• A lot of citizens are unemployed
• Bankers are rejected by many
• forced to lend more money
• Happiness does not lie in money; it lies in achieving
• government needs to stimulate jobs and the use of natural resources
• people must re-balance the population of industrial centers
• and raise the values of agricultural products
• strict banking measures of safety
• These are the only ways to recover
• cannot recover instantly but can recover fast
• he  will also try to get Congress to agree with him
• he does not think democracy will cease to exist, but he thinks we need action in the democracy

LAD #32

Kellogg-Briand Pact Summary

• countries had signed a treaty at Paris
• good time to announce our renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy
• all agree to denounce war as an instrument of national policy
• As soon as this treaty has been signed, it will come into immediate effect
• people have their seal on it and these are those who are responsible.