what was the first move roosevelt made in attempting to solve the economic crisis?
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He wanted to stabilize banking, so he issued Proclamation 2038 to suspend banking transactions for a little.
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(October 29, 1929), also known as Black Tuesday, the day on which thousands of investors tried to sell their stocks, ending the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties. The crash was caused by the overspeculation of the 1920s; investors, taking risks in hopes of profits, bought their stock on margin with money they did not have. On that day, over 16 million shares of stock were traded. With an overabundance of sellers and few buyers, the prices of stocks dropped far below the prices paid for them, and investors lost billions of dollars in paper profits within a matter of hours. Banks and businesses had also invested in the stock market, and with the falling prices, the values of their investments plunged, causing them to fold. Although the crash did not "cause" the Great Depression, it was the opening event of the era.
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The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world.\n\nThough the U.S. economy had gone into depression six months earlier, the Great Depression may be said to have begun with a catastrophic collapse of stock-market prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929. During the next three years stock prices in the United States continued to fall, until by late 1932 they had dropped to only about 20 percent of their value in 1929. Besides ruining many thousands of individual investors, this precipitous decline in the value of assets greatly strained banks and other financial institutions, particularly those holding stocks in their portfolios. Many banks were consequently forced into insolvency; by 1933, 11,000 of the United States' 25,000 banks had failed. The failure of so many banks, combined with a general and nationwide loss of confidence in the economy, led to much-reduced levels of spending and demand and hence of production, thus aggravating the downward spiral. The result was drastically falling output and drastically rising unemployment; by 1932, U.S. manufacturing output had fallen to 54 percent of its 1929 level, and unemployment had risen to between 12 and 15 million workers, or 25-30 percent of the work force.\n\nThe Great Depression began in the United States but quickly turned into a worldwide economic slump owing to the special and intimate relationships that had been forged between the United States and European economies after World War I. The United States had emerged from the war as the major creditor and financier of postwar Europe, whose national economies had been greatly weakened by the war itself, by war debts, and, in the case of Germany and other defeated nations, by the need to pay war reparations. So once the American economy slumped and the flow of American investment credits to Europe dried up, prosperity tended to collapse there as well. The Depression hit hardest those nations that were most deeply indebted to the United States, i.e., Germany and Great Britain. In Germany, unemployment rose sharply beginning in late 1929, and by early 1932 it had reached 6 million workers, or 25 percent of the work force. Britain was less severely affected, but its industrial and export sectors remained seriously depressed until World War II. Many other countries had been affected by the slump by 1931.\n\nAlmost all nations sought to protect their domestic production by imposing tariffs, raising existing ones, and setting quotas on foreign imports. The effect of these restrictive measures was to greatly reduce the volume of international trade: by 1932 the total value of world trade had fallen by more than half as country after country took measures against the importation of foreign goods.\n\nThe Great Depression had important consequences in the political sphere. In the United States, economic distress led to the election of the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency in late 1932. Roosevelt introduced a number of major changes in the structure of the American economy, using increased government regulation and massive public-works projects to promote a recovery. But despite this active intervention, mass unemployment and economic stagnation continued, though on a somewhat reduced scale, with about 15 percent of the work force still unemployed in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. After that, unemployment dropped rapidly as American factories were flooded with orders from overseas for armaments and munitions. The depression ended completely soon after the United States' entry into World War II in 1941. In Europe, the Great Depression strengthened extremist forces and lowered the prestige of liberal democracy. In Germany, economic distress directly contributed to Adolf Hitler's ri
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised to get the US out of the great depression by creating a whole new unconstitutional bureaucratic system of government, the New Deal.  This brought about welfare, and demolished our limited, Constitutional government.  That Constitutionalism was being eaten away at before, but this was a very big part of doing away with the Founder's original intents.\n\nWWII also brought severe federal government restrictions on the economy, and I think price controls.  That further helped in the erosion of the original, limited federal government.
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FDR was the best: \nFranklin D. Roosevelt\n\nAssuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."\n\nBorn in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt.\n\nFollowing the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.\n\n\nRelated Links\n\nPresident Bush Biography\nVice President Cheney Biography\nLaura Bush Biography\nLynne Cheney Biography\n\n\nIn the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York.\n\nHe was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.\n\nBy 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program. They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.\n\nIn 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy.\n\nRoosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement.\n\nWhen the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war.\n\nFeeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be settled.\n\nAs the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. \n\n\n\nand bush is definitely the worst
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In the Great Depression, society was in chaos. The global economy had collapsed due to several factors. Countries had trade barriers called tariffs, that taxed international trade and limited production and employment. As well,  workers were not paid enough to purchase the goods made in the factories. Farm incomes were down as food production increased after World War I, so farmers lost money. Then along came Black MOnday, October 28, 1929 where the value of the Dow Jones on Wall Street plummeted bankrupting thousands of people and throwing the economy into further chaos. In those days, people could borrow money to buy on margin at low low percentages. People would borrow a lot of money to play the stock market because they assumed the stock would keep rising. When Black Monday hit, those people were wiped out financially. Overnight.\n\nThen, in the early 1930's a new phenomenom took place - drought on the Great Plains. Farm land turned to dust and blew off. Grasshoppers flourished in the heat, eating crops that did grow. People packed up from Oklahoma and other plains states and moved to somewhere else - anywhere where there was a hint of opportunity. California actually had roadblocks turning people away at the state line!\n\nYounger people were hardest hit. Marriage rates and birth rates declined as young people held off getting married and having children. Young men left home in their teens - some as young as 14 or 15 - and led the hobo life, knocking on doors seeking work for a meal or a place to lay their head. Cars and trucks had their front ends removed and hitched up to horses. Bikes were known as Hoovermobiles, after Herbert Hoover, the president of the day.\n\nFor children, life was hard. At times in many families the mother and father went hungry so the children would not go without. My mother remembers when times got hard at the end of the month having the last of the bacon for dinner one night, then having bacon lard sandwiches for lunch the next day. Leftover oatmeal was often a snack after school!\n\nThese conditions lasted for over five years. Things slowly improved, but not to the level of pre=1929. That didn't happen until world war II brought almost full employment and factories sprang up to make the machiens and products required by the war effort.\n\nI hope this helps put it into better perspective for you.
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Well the depresion mainly, but also constitutional issues since the supreme court kept vetoing FDR's recovery bills. FDR threatened to pack the court with new "young blood" so then the court started to comply with him. People forget that this was a huge constitutional crisis at the time.
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In 1939, under the encouragement of Szilárd, Einstein sent a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt urging the study of nuclear fission for military purposes, under fears that the Nazi government would be first to develop atomic weapons. Roosevelt started a small investigation into the matter which eventually became the massive Manhattan Project. Einstein himself did not work on the bomb project, however.\n\nThe International Rescue Committee was founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein to assist opponents of Adolf Hitler
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President Franklin Roosevelt
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National Recovery Administration.\n\nIt wasn't Wilson, it was Roosevelt that signed it into existence in '33, you idiot.
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The FDR revolution.  Introduced Marxism into American Government. via welfare, graduated tax, confiscation of private gold reserves
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt started the (welfare)American general relief program to feed the masses(soup kitchens),and worked on plans to develop new projects(such as dams,road construction etc) to create a "new deal" for the American people..unfortunatly the program never ended
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The New Deal consisted of a lot of government initiatives and new programs designed to jump start and rebalance the economy after the Great Depression.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missle Crisis.  The Berlin Wall went up and JFK gave a speech in Berlin criticizing communism.  Things heated up in Southeast Asia and JFK sent Special Advisors (one of them Robert McNamara) into Viet Nam to report on the situation.  John Glenn became the first man to orbit the Earth and Kennedy asked Congress to approve more than 22 billion dollars for Project Apollo, which had the goal of landing an American man on the Moon before the end of the decade.  Kennedy appointed Byron Raymond White and Arthur Joseph Goldberg to the US Supreme Court (both in 1962).  Kennedy used the term New Frontier as a label for his domestic programs. It ambitiously promised federal funding for education, health care for the elderly, and government intervention to halt the recession. He formed the Peace Corps and put his brother-in-law, Sargeant Shriver, in charge.  Kennedy also promised an end to racial discrimination.  He sent US Marshalls to protect the Freedom Riders and federal troops to stop the race riot at the University of Mississippi when James Meredith was admitted as a student.  His wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, refurbished the White House and secured funding for it and its artifacts by classifying it as a museum.  Also on the domestic front, in 1963 Kennedy proposed a tax reform that included income tax cuts, but this was not passed by the Congress until after his death in 1964. It is one of the largest tax cuts in modern U.S. history, surpassing the Reagan tax cut of 1981.
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Roosevelt was vital in stirring up support for the Allies in WWII. Without him, America would've stayed out of the war.
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Shutting off welfare is one controversial solution -- a more effective one historically are public works projects like the New Deal by FDR.
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He proposed the "New Deal" that brought the country out of the great depression\n\nLed the country through World War two\n\nworked towards unemployment, restoration of prosperity, significant new taxes and controls\n\nput over 120,000 japanese americans into concentration camps\n\nplayed a critical role in shaping the post-war world, particularly through the Yalta Conference and the creation of the United Nations.\n\nThose are key points ... research them in detail for your essay