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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 ]
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 ]
America First (app), a smartphone app used for the United States presidential campaign of Donald Trump; America First Policies, a nonprofit organization created in 2017 to promote then President Trump's "America First" policy agenda; America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a nonprofit think tank founded in 2021
America in the 1930s Extensive library of projects on America in the Great Depression from American Studies at the University of Virginia The 1930s Timeline year by year timeline of events in science and technology, politics and society, culture and international events with embedded audio and video.
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.
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 stock market rose in early 1930, with the Dow returning to 294 (pre-depression levels) in April 1930, before steadily declining for years, to a low of 41 in 1932. [10] At the beginning, governments and businesses spent more in the first half of 1930 than in the corresponding period of the previous year.
Charles Coughlin was born on October 25, 1891, in Hamilton, Ontario, the only child of Irish Catholic Amelia (née Mahoney) and Thomas Coughlin.Born in a working-class neighbourhood, he lived in a modest home situated between a Catholic cathedral and convent. [9]