Effectiveness Of The New Deal: Views From Historians Flashcards
Why does Tony Badger think that the New deal was a success?
“the 1930s saw the largest ever growth in trade union membership in a single decade. Trade union membership trebled. The gains were decisive and permanent.”
Why does Micheal Parrish think the new deal was a success- specifically the Wagner act
Called the Wagner Act the Trade Union’s Magna Carta ( a document granting basic rights)
laid the foundations for a federal welfare state system- lasted until the 1980s
Why does Hugh Brogan think the new deal was a success?
How does he describe Americas transformation?
“It was transformed from a country which had been laid low by troubles which it was quite unable to cope with, to a country superbly equipped to meet the worst shocks that the Modern World could hurl at it.”
Does Lowe think the New deal fixed the depression, what does he think helped America to fix unemployment?
“The New Deal therefore did not rescue the USA from the depression; it was only the war effort that brought unemployment below the million mark in 1943.”
Why does Michael Parish think the New deal was unsuccessful?
“FDR and the New Deal failed the American people: in six years of effort, economic prosperity had not returned and Depression lingered. “
Why does Bernstein think that the new deal was unsuccessful?
“The New Deal neglected many Americans – sharecroppers, tenant farmers, farm labourers and migrant workers, unskilled workers and unemployed blacks. They were all left outside the new order.”
Why does Schlesinger think that the new deal was unsuccessful?
That the New Deal got the wheels of industry moving again, this was not enough to lift America out of the Depression
