1. The New Deal:
The New Deal was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to stop The Great Depression in the 1930’s. He passed more legislation in eight days than any other president did in a whole term as the president of the United States. His plan included financial reforms, public works projects, federal programs, and regulations. FDR passed relief measures in order to provide immediate relief, recovery measures to rebuild the economy, and reform measures to keep America from having another depression. The New Deal did not successfully end the Great Depression; however, it did stabilize the economy and keep it from getting any worse.
2. Yalta Conference:
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin were called the Big 3, and all
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met in February of 1945. Each of the three leaders in the conference wanted different resolutions to benefit themselves and their countries. Churchill, the British Prime Minister, wanted Poland to be a free nation, FDR, the President of the United States, wanted communism to stop spreading, and Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, wanted satellite nation in order to spread communism. The outcomes were that after the war Stalin would allow election in Poland, although, he did not keep this promise. Also the USSR accepts the plan for the United Nations, and the USSR promises to declare war on Japan 90 days after the conflict ends in Europe. The last outcome was the Germany would be split into four zones and each be occupied by the allied nation. This conference was the beginning of the Cold war. 3. Korean Conflict: Korea was split into two nations, the Communist North Korea, and the Democratic South Korea.
The north was supported by the Soviet Union, and the south was supported by the United States. This conflict took place from 1950-1953 and the U.S. got involved to keep the whole country from turning Communist. This was the first incident in which the United States sent military support in order to contain communism. There was not a real winner and loser in this conflict, the nations stayed divided just as they were before the fighting broke out. The war ended with an Armistice, and the United States was successful in the fight against the spread of …show more content…
communism. 4. Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Montgomery Bus Boycott took place in Montgomery, Alabama between 1955-1956. This boycott was the African American population in the city protesting racial segregation on the public buses. Rosa Parks sparked the movement when she purposely got arrested for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white citizen on December 1, 1955. Instead of paying to ride the buses in Montgomery, more than 40,000 African Americans decided to walk to their destinations instead. By doing this, the African Americans successfully put financial pressure on the transportation system. The Boycott was finally ended in 1956 when the Supreme Court decided that the laws requiring segregated buses in the state of Alabama was unconstitutional. 5. Totalitarianism: In a totalitarianism society, the government has all authority and ability to tell its citizens what they can and can’t do.
The public and private life of all the people living under this type of government is heavily monitored and regulated by the government. Some examples of totalitarianism would be Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler in Germany, and Mao Zedong in China. These beliefs that the government should control all aspects of life is what the United States and its leaders feared. We did not agree with any of the beliefs that a government should own all aspects of business and the economy. America believed in the exact opposite and tried its best to defend all other nations from being overturned under this type of
rule. 6. Containment: The United States, under president Harry S. Truman, wanted to contain Communism and stop the spread of these ideas that Joseph Stalin and the USSR were trying to expand. We gave military aid, and financial support to nations that were under the pressure of the USSR and other communist countries. America believed that if communism spread it would eventually begin to take over every unstable country in the world. Without the aid and support of the United States there is no telling what the communist USSR could have taken control over. The U.S. spent large amounts of money and lost soldiers lives to contain communism, but without these effort the world would not be the same as it is today. 7. The Affluent Society: John Galbraith, an economist from Harvard University, wrote a book in 1958 that was called the Affluent Society. In this book he gave his opinions about our nation after World War two. He believed that our economy was wealthy and growing, however, the wealth was concentrated into a small percentage of the population. The term affluent society was used as the label on the post-war time period when the U.S. economy grew tremendously and there was an overflow of consumer goods. He also argued that the gap between salaries and incomes was growing, causing a bigger difference between the wealthy and middle-class Americans. 8. Good Neighbor Policy: Franklin D. Roosevelt used the Good Neighbor Policy as the foreign policy for the United States during his presidency. His main focus with this policy was to improve our relationship with Central and South America. He wanted America to quit using military force to solve problems and begin cooperating and trading with the countries in the western hemisphere. He believed that trading with these countries and keeping them stable would also benefit us economically. If nations in our hemisphere were stable, it would be less likely for a communist nation to defeat and turn them into a satellite nation. We did not want the spread of communism to continue, especially in the same hemisphere as the U.S. 9. Arms Race: The arms race was the time period during the cold in which the United States began to try and fabricate and test atomic bombs. The only problem was we were in a race against the USSR to build the most destructive bomb. This “arms race” began in 1945 when the United States detonated the first atomic bomb as a test in New Mexico. The reason that the U.S. wanted to build these bombs before the USSR was to quickly end World War 2 and to be able to control foreign policy with the USSR. The arms race and cold war never really ended until July of 1991 when the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was signed between the U.S. and the USSR to end the manufacture of nuclear weapons. 10. Brown v. Board of Education: Brown v. Board of Education refers to a supreme court case in which five cases of the same matter were combined into one case about segregation in public schools. This was one of the many civil rights cases in this time period, this particular case took down the “separate but equal” beliefs. The African Americans were not allowed to attend the same public schools as white children were. This belief changed on May 17, 1954 when the Supreme court made the decision that segregation in the public school system was unconstitutional. This type of segregation was in contrast with the 14th Amendment which doesn’t allow states to restrict the basic rights of any citizen.
Coming into the 1930’s, the United States underwent a severe economic recession, referred to as the Great Depression. Resulting in high unemployment and poverty rates, deflation, and an unstable economy, the Great Depression considerably hindered American society. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was nominated to succeed the spot of presidency, making his main priority to revamp and rebuild the United States, telling American citizens “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people," (“New” 2). The purpose of the New Deal was to expand the Federal Government, implementing authority over big businesses, the banking system, the stock market, and agricultural production. Through the New Deal, acts were passed to stimulate the economy, aid banks, alleviate environmental problems, eliminate poverty, and create a stronger central government (“New”1).
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal was a package of economic programs that were made and proposed from 1933 up to 1936. The goals of the package were to give relief to farmers, reform to business and finance, and recovery to the economy during the Great Depression.
As a response to the calamity of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt sets forward the New Deal, a series of federal plans that began in 1933. It includes four primary goals: economic revival, job creation, public works investments and civic uplift. The First and Second New Deal have tremendous force during the Great Depression and extend its influences even up until the mod epoch.
The New Deal was a series of federal programs launched in the United Sates by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in reaction to the Great Depression.
The New Deal was a set of acts that effectively gave Americans a new sense of hope after the Great Depression. The New Deal advocated for women’s rights, worked towards ending discrimination in the workplace, offered various jobs to African Americans, and employed millions through new relief programs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), made it his duty to ensure that something was being done. This helped restore the public's confidence and showed that relief was possible. The New Deal helped serve American’s interest, specifically helping women, african american, and the unemployed and proved to them that something was being done to help them.
President Franklin Roosevelt strived throughout his time in office to construct multiple reforms, such as the New Deal, that would completely alter the role of the federal government. At the beginning of his administration, President Roosevelt faced heavy opposition from the current justices of the Supreme court. Many of the Supreme Court Justices were older and held conservative views that deterred them from vote for most of President Roosevelt’s legislature. With-in his first couple years, the Supreme Court had rejected numerous piece of legislature like the National Recovery Administration, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and many key pieces of Roosevelt’s historic New Deal. (History.com) The justices’ traditional views drove them to deem
The New Deal of President Franklin Roosevelt was good for the United States. It's was the best option to counteract the catastrophic outcomes of the Great Depression. There were many domestic programs that aimed for the recovery of the Great Depression which have succeeded and some still exist today. Programs such Social Security, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and U.S Securities and Exchange Commission have made great progress during the depression era. In addition to some temporary significant acts and programs such as Works Progress Administration (WPA).
New deal’s main purpose was to provide relief in form of direct or indirect aid to Americans, to speed economic recovery, reform in banking and stock market to prevent its subsequent crash but it only partially succeeded. New deal was more friendly with blacks and they were given second level position in Roosevelt’s administration and were known as “Black Cabinet”. In 1934, Indian Reorganization Act was passed which allowed Indian tribe to own their land. Roosevelt was also first president to appoint female cabinet in his administration. Region of West and South had the greatest benefit from relief and public work project of New Deal. Since South was least economically developed, rural electrification project brought a major change by providing electricity.
From the 1870s to the 20th century, America has underwent many different challenges and changes. History deems the beginning of this period as the era of Reconstruction. Its overall goal was to focus on reviving America to increase the social, cultural and economic quality of the United States. Ideally from the beginning, Americans sought out to be economically independent, as opposed to being economically dependent. Unfortunately the traditional dream of families owning their own lands and businesses eventually became archaic. The government not maintaining the moral well-being of the American society not only caused Americans to not trust the government, but it also created a long strand of broken promises that the government provided to them. Many things support this idea, from an economic standpoint lies the Great Depression, to the social/militant platform of the Cold War, and the cultural/civil issues related to race and women's suffrage. Overall history supports the idea that sometimes democracy
Roosevelt created the New Deal in a way to reconstruct what the Great Depression had done. In the First New Deal he was going to try and experiment with new ideas that could help restore the economy. The First 100 Days was basically the period where Congress allowed Roosevelt to do also anything he wanted. Every bank in the United States were going to close their doors until the government and banks could control the bad moment banks were going through. Bank reform was the first thing he asked from Congress, a legislation in order for banking system to organized again, have a strong foundation, and also have the support of the government. After only two week, many people were depositing money again and started to have trust in banks, at this point banks made a huge improvement and were stronger than ever. This was a better idea than what president Hoover was doing, Hoover never
Franklin Delano Roosevelt increased government involvement by enacting the CCC, AAA, and social security act to ensure more equitable amounts of capital would be distributed to working and middle-class individuals to restore strength to the American Economy. After WWII, the 1920's was an era largely defined by citizens of the United States as a euphoric display of wealth for white Americans. Through the entirety of the decade, "All the presidents were Republicans who took a hands-off approach towards economic regulation," which fostered independence in the areas of both free expression and finance. The era conceived the idea on how to get rich in a short amount of time by purchasing stocks through the New York Stock Exchange. The Stock Market
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected in 1932, he promised a New Deal to them that would bring them out of the Depression. The New Deal was a countless amount of reforms that would certainly end the Depression. Finally, the citizens of the United States have found someone they could trust. “Unlike his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, who felt that the public should support the government and not the other way around, Roosevelt felt it was the federal government’s duty to help the American people weather these bad times.” Right away, in fact, in the first 100 days of his presidency, numerous bills were passed to reduce poverty, unemployment, and to speed economic recovery. The New Deal included a four-day bank holiday, in which Congress created the Emergency Banking Bill of 1933, “which stabilized the banking system and restored the public’s faith in the banking industry by putting the federal government behind it.” He also signed the Glass-Steagall act which created the FDIC.
Priest Coughlin, once said “Roosevelt or ruin” but at the end he understood it was “Roosevelt and ruin”. After the Stock Market Crash on October 29, 1929, a period of unemployment, panic, and a very low economy; struck the U.S. Also known as The Great Depression. But in 1933, by just being given presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) would try to stop this devastation with a program, that he named New Deal, design to fix this issue so called The Great Depression.Unfortunately this new program wasn’t successful because FDR didn’t understand the causes of the Great Depression, it made the government had way too much power over their economy and industry, it focused mostly on direct relief and it didn’t help the minorities.
It is evident that a period of struggle occurred for almost all of the American people during the early twentieth century and specifically the 1930’s. There was an abundance of obstacles that constantly stumped and puzzled the society as whole. Often people found that the situations they faced were so difficult that they became unemployed. Unemployment left many Americans scrambling to try to do what ever they were able to in order to uphold financial agreements and provide a living for their family. Many people that managed to find employment, still faced detrimental financial turmoil. As people were low on ideas and starting to loose faith, it was evident that they should consider accepting the financial aid opportunities that the government
On October 29, 1929, America fell into one of the worst economic catastrophes the country has ever seen. The Great Depression left destruction in its wake, leaving no one unaffected. The president at the time, Herbert Hoover, went with a hands off approach and tried to let the issue fix itself which was not favored by the public. They went from a hands off to hands out attitude towards the federal government. The voting citizens did not like the lack of help, so in the 1932 election the people voted in President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This democratic president stepped up to the plate stop the Great Depression with his set of programs called the New Deal, yet it didn't work out quite as planned. The New Deal’s purpose was to stop the Great Depression by lowering unemployment rates, but instead it prevented the rates from decreasing all the while causing America to reach an all time high in