What was the influence of FDR?
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- what was the influence of Roosevelt?
- Shaped American presidency
- Built relationship with public
- fireside chats
- president duties grew, a drafter of policy as well as an implementor
- Republicans criticised this, compared him to a dictator
- Supreme court ruled his laws unconstitutional - AAA and NRA
- Republicans criticised this, compared him to a dictator
- White house staff for domestic and foreign policy
- Executive Reorganisation Bill 1939
- Built relationship with public
- helped combat depression
- Alphabet agencies - relief and recovery in first 100days
- stabilise banking
- Civil works administration provide temporary work for 4million
- Banking Act closed banks for 3 days 1933
- Fastest period of GDP growth in US history
- failiues
- AAA southern farmers suffered
- unemployment never went below 14%
- second term focus on reform
- Alphabet agencies - relief and recovery in first 100days
- led to 'big government'
- government no longer laissez faire
- 1933 tried to help rural and agricultural US
- price support and development programs
- 1935 financial aid to aged, infirm and unemployed
- price support and development programs
- activist fiscal policy 1937
- fair labour standards act 1938
- allied victory in WW2
- Understood Germany and Japan threaten America
- fireside chats assured public US would stay neutral
- supplied allies with good
- lend lease to Britiain
- 1941 rallied support for war
- became more interventionalist
- became superpower
- Shaped American presidency
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