America - The New Deal & WW2
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- Created on: 02-07-19 19:54
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- The New Deal & WW2
- WW2
- Employment
- Unemployment dropped to 5.5 million in 1941
- People moved into the factories to produce war goods
- People recruited into the armed forces to fight in WW2
- WPB aimed to convert factories from peacetime work to wartime work
- Unemployment dropped to 5.5 million in 1941
- Selling of goods
- Created the Cash and Carry plan
- Sold warships and planes to the allies for money
- Lend Lease deal
- Gave 50 warships to Britain
- Created the Cash and Carry plan
- Effects
- Brought the US out of the great depression
- Brought the end of FDR's presidency
- Ended isolationism in the US, allowing trade between the US and countries
- Factory jobs created for the unemployed
- Brought the US out of the great depression
- Employment
- The New Deal
- The First New Deal
- The 'Hundred Days'
- FDR's first 100 days as president
- FDR pushed emergency laws to help the US
- FDR has several 'fireside chats' on the radio explaining the laws he passed
- Goals
- To provide relief and recovery to people and important infrastructure
- Trying to achieve state funding for relief for local people
- Effects
- FDR passed 12 laws
- Faced Supreme Court challenges
- Reduced unemployment because temporary jobs were introduced
- National Industrial Relief Act
- Stabilised banks
- The Emergency Banking Act closed banks until they were stable
- FDR passed 12 laws
- The 'Hundred Days'
- FDR's goals
- Recovery
- Help businesses to get the economy up and running
- Relief
- Provide immediate help for people
- Reform
- Implement laws to make sure the US is back to normal
- To make sure that another crash cannot happen again
- Recovery
- The Second New Deal
- Goals
- To speed up recovery - was slowing down in 1934
- Provide long-lasting change (Reform)
- Alphabet Agencies
- Works Progress Administration
- WPA spent $8.5 Billion on projects for work
- Employed millions of job-seekers for public works
- Social Security Administration
- Ensured a social insurance program for retirement, disability, etc
- National Labour Relations Act
- Allowed trade unions to form, and strikes to be organised
- Works Progress Administration
- Effects
- CCC spent about $1.2 billion on rural projects
- Training opportunities because of WPA
- Unemployment rose in 1938 due to strikes
- Alphabet Agencies couldn't fund all projects
- Goals
- The First New Deal
- WW2
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