1933-1945 Flashcards
How many people were unemployed in 1933?
25%
Effects of Great Depression(3/5)
- Crops rotted in fields
- 12% of farmers lost their land
- May factories stood idle
- Thousands of banks failed or closed
- Thousands of people couldn’t pay their mortgages
What did New Deal thinking believe?
- Government was responsible for the welfare of people
- Importance of rapid, national action
Ways in which the Great Depression increased FDR powers? (2)
- Asked Congress for special powers to deal with the economic situation
- The federal government took over some policy-making that was technically the role of the states
What was the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
- Set up to enforce codes of practice for businesses, including setting working hours and a minimum wage
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (2)
Bought up surplus crops and subsidised farmers to grow less of crops that were being overproduced
What did the New Deal do to society
Greatly increased the social and economic role of the federal government
Criticism of New Deal (3)
- Businessman/upper class people resented the idea of redistributing wealth
- feared New Deal would open the door to socialism
- Some considered him insufficiently radical and proposed more left wing solutions
What kind of president was FDR? (3)
- A people’s president, partook in fireside chats
- Highly visible
- Maintained a good relationship with the press
What kind of legacy did Roosevelt leave on the presidency (3)
- President expected to be involved in forming policy and legislation
- Whitehouse expected to tell the media/ public about policy
- Government responsible for welfare throughout the country
Destroyer-for-bases (3)
- Helped Britain with their war effort,
- Passed via executive order, did not gain approval of Congress
1940 - bypassed Congress and seen as a dictatorial action
Cash and Carry
- in order to implement FDR was given DISCRETIONARY POWERS (additional powers)
1939
Why was FDR called the “imperial presidency” (3)
- Roosevelt got more power in foreign policy, international negotiations and use of resources
what did FDR influence (4)
- fed. gov in relation to the economy and society
- nature, role and power of the presidency
- Democratic Party
- Post-war world and America’s role in it
What did Congress pass legislation on in 1932 (3)
- tried to solve overproduction by paying farmers to produce less
- regulating banking and stock
- aimed to revitalise industry
