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The America First Committee's membership peaked at 800,000 paying members in 450 chapters, and it popularized the slogan "America First". [3] While the America First Committee had a variety of supporters in the U.S., the movement was muddled with anti-Semitic and fascist rhetoric. [ 18 ]
The America First Committee (AFC) was an American isolationist pressure group against the United States' entry into World War II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Launched in September 1940, it surpassed 800,000 members in 450 chapters at its peak. [ 3 ]
"America First" , an episode of the American television series Homeland; America First!: Its History, Politics, and Culture, a 1995 book by Bill Kauffman, United States; America First Credit Union, a credit union in Utah, United States; America First Event Center, a multi-purpose arena in Cedar City, Utah, United States
The America First party nominated Gerald Smith as its candidate for president on July 31, at its first convention, begun July 29, in Detroit, and chose an electoral college slate to support him. Further, the convention nominated Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, already the Republican vice-presidential nominee, as Smith's running mate.
A History of the World in the Twentieth Century (Harvard UP, 1994) pp 160–251. Grossman, Mark. Encyclopedia of the Interwar Years: From 1919 to 1939 (2000). 400pp. worldwide coverage; Lewis, Thomas Tandy, ed. The Thirties in America. 3 volumes. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011. Watt D.C. et al., A History of the World in the Twentieth Century ...
1930 – Frozen vegetables, packaged by Clarence Birdseye, become the first frozen food to go on sale; 1930 – The Democrats take Congress in the Midterms. Will keep it until 1946. 1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff; 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto; 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature
The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (1998). Advanced economic history. Bremer, William W. "Along the American Way: The New Deal's Work Relief Programs for the Unemployed." Journal of American History 62 (December 1975): 636–652 online; Cannadine, David (2007). Mellon: An American Life.
The Act and tariffs imposed by America's trading partners in retaliation were major factors of the reduction of American exports and imports by 67% during the Great Depression. [5] Economists and economic historians have agreed that the passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff worsened the effects of the Great Depression.