1. The Rise & Fall of the New Deal Left (1932-1968)

2. Normalcy Warren Harding (1921-23) Herbert Hoover (1929-33) Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) Laissez- faire Associationism

3. FDR & the New Deal Depression Govt. as Solution –Regulation Safety Net / Welfare State –Social Security –Work Programs Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45) “Action and action now.”

4. Thunder on the Left Huey Long Fr. Charles Coughlin Dr. Francis Townsend

5. New Deal Coalition Labor Seniors Agriculture Women African Americans Solid South Urban Machine Louis Howe

6. Election of 1948 Fair Deal Dixiecrats Wallace Harry S Truman (1945-53)

7. Moderate Republicans McCarthy & Korea Election of 1952 Accept New Deal programs & role of government Dwight Eisenhower (1953-61)

8. Election of 1960 John F. Kennedy (1961-63)

9. New Frontier JFK LBJ Great Society Goldwater & 1964 Lyndon Johnson (1963-69)

10. Election of 1968 Viet Nam & Credibility Gap Civil Rights & Southern Strategy Counter -Culture Law & Order Richard Nixon (1969-74)

11. Backlash Watergate Ford 1976 Election Malaise Iranian Crisis Jimmy Carter (1977-81) Gerald Ford (1974-77)

12. Election of 1980 New Right: Moral Majority Christian Right Pro-Life Pro-Business “Government is the problem.”