What is your opinion of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal?
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a lot of people didn't like it because the government was spending so much money.  I think it was a good thing though.  You need to put money into the economy if you want to make it better.  An analagy my history teacher used was priming the pump.  You need to put water in the pump or nothing will happen.  The pump will burn up if there is nothing to pump.
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CRUSH CAPITALISM!!!!\nSeriously dude, how hard was that?  Think about Berlin, etc.  Also, a lot of the ethnic cleansing had been done in Russia by this point (enough Ukrainians killed off for Stalin).  Uncle Joe Stalin was in charge and FDR had given him rule over a lot of territory unnecessarily.  Comintern would be supported, and the Cold War against the US and the rest of the capitalist world be maintained, especially through vicarious conflicts, like the Korean War, where the Russian Communists supplied weapons and troops to a few idealogical Koreans to "give the gift" of Communism.  The Koreans requested help from the US and the Greeks, etc. (the Greeks had just recently defeated a Communist incursion).
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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
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Do you mean Franklin Delanor Roosevelt?? Look him up in Wikipedia, you will get a ton of info.
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I know that prohibition was a big one. The recovery from WWI had alot to do with it also, and the depression. We had 65% unemployment in some areas of the Country. America was crippled from Taft's legislation, and the control of the banks. The Banks couldn't cover the money, that was put into their banks, it wasn't there, "HUH". I would start there.
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He was elected President in November 1932,\n\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   \n \n \n\nPresident Bush Biography\nVice President Cheney Biography\nLaura Bush Biography\nLynne Cheney Biography  \n \n  \n \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.
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FDR had been pushing the US to the brink of war with both countries. His belligerance towards both was evident in his policies. His support of Britain, the Lend-Lease and the extension of US escorts for British shipping were, basically, acts of war against Germany.\n\nWe would have eventually gone to war, but without the unity we had after having been attacked.\n\nOf course, we could have surrendered like the French, and the money spent on the war would have been better spent on poverty reduction plans at home, according to some people on this site.\n\nI guess FDR was just a warmongering elitist who kept America in a long depression for his evil pleasure and greed, until he could get into a war and kill millions of innocents with his indescriminate bombing of civilan targets. This would be an accurate description, according to the people who depict Bush this way.
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It came with the Social Security Act, part of FDR's New Deal. It makes it much easier to classify every citizen in the US so that no one gets 2 social security checks or 2 bills.
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President Franklin Roosevelt
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Most definitely. As the leader of the United States during arguably the most difficult time of our history, he pushed Congress to pass emergency bills and reform measures that helped improve the economic situation in the eyes of the public. Though many historians say the beginning of World War II ended the Depression, I think that if it weren't for FDR's leadership, American morale would have fell too far to possibly recover economically.
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Here's a little info: The Great Society was founded by LB Johnson and based loosely on Roosevelt's New Deal-- The New Deal goals were the three R's:Reform, recovery, and relief, while the goal of the Great Society was to end poverty and racial injustice (this was a form of reforming, recovering and relieving society of the poverty and discrimination)... The social and political legacy of the Great Society is that it started the end of discrimination (Voting Rights Act, etc) and less poverty; the New Deal's legacy was that it helped to end the depression (poverty). As for origins, both were implanted at times of depression(New Deal) and poverty(Great Society).... ok done! that was a good review for my US quiz!
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The US Government (The Roosevelt Administration) came up with the New Deal.  There is plenty written on that and should be available on Google.  The New Deal brought more people out of poverty and into the middle class than any social policy ever has.
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Wellll, this site will give you some ideas; it presents the speech in whole, as well as the particular circumstances under which the speech was given:\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/124/pres52.html\n \nYou might note the mood of the speech -- very somber.  However, the tone is, nonetheless, hopeful.  The speech is very brief.  There is no discussion of what he will do as President for the people;  rather, it is really a prayer to and for the people that peace might be achieved.  And, indeed, he invokes God several times throughout.  \n\nIt's important to note that Roosevelt was actually quite ill at the time of this speech; in fact, he died a few months later.  Also, it's important to note that a key and horribly brutal battle of WW2 was in process, known as the Battle of the Bulge, in which more than 75,000 men were either killed, maimed or captured in less than one month's time.  Things seemed very depressing and dire at the time.  It was THE key strength of Roosevelt that he was able to uplift and rally a nation beaten down by the Depression and war solely by the words of hope and optimism he conveyed in all of his speeches (there was no TV then, most people didn't even know what he looked liked, they only knew him by the sound of his voice on radio).\n\nGood luck!
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FDR created the Social Security and many other programs to act as a safety net for those who were poor or elderly and could not work.  He Also created the New Deal.  Check out the link great source of info.
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i agree\n\nhe was able to persuade the public quite easily..\n\nhonestly, we need people in the government like him to GET THINGS DONE! not necessarily genocide, but with the power to do things for the better of the country!\n\nour government is a bureaucracy, and has been for over twenty years.. its time to clean out the house and put in people who represent those of us who make up the country, not the top 5% of the rich.. when was the last time you saw a neighborhood nobody become president? those days seem over now..
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Let's see...he cut tax rates in half, gave the country 6-8 years of steady economic growth, helped restore the morale in the military, improved our national security posture both at home & abroad, played a major part in bringing down the Soviet Union (arguably the biggest part), and helped to roll back Communism in different parts in the world.  He also stood up to the air traffic controllers when they went on an illegal strike, even though the unions had helped support him in 1980.  \n\nOf course, he wasn't perfect (Iran-contra was something that looks bad in hindsight, but at the time, he was trying to stop communism overall -Reagan was a realist in foreign policy).\n\nAs to how he's remembered?  After he died, even most Democrats said good things about him.  Although, if you want the most tangible reminder, how about the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier named for him -one of the largest ships in the world, and, to many, a major symbol of American capabilities (something, again, Reagan worked hard to constantly improve).  Politically, he's remembered as the man who drafted the Republicans' agenda in the modern world, and as a man who had a great sense of humor -witness the famous "Honey, I forgot to duck" quip to Nancy after John Hinckley shot him or, when a 7-year-old wrote a letter to him requesting federal aid after the kid's mother called the kid's room a disaster area (paraphrasing here):  "The actual request would have to come from the person making the declaration, in this case, your mother.  Also, this administration believes that the individual is the best person to get important tasks done, and so here is your chance to do so by starting your own initiative to clean your room.  Congratulations!."
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"Fascism is on the march today in America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will come in this country unless a strong defense is set up by all liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. Aboard ship a prominent executive of one of America's largest financial corporations told me point blank that if the progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued, he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism to America."\nhttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Fascism.html