Why was there a decline in republicanism and a rise in democrats?
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- Created on: 23-02-17 22:38
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- Why was there a decline in republicanism and a rise in democrats?
- personality
- Hoover uncharismatic and lacked empathy
- Ordered MacArthur to evict ex veterans from hoovervilles
- 'Happy days are here again'
- Fireside chats
- March 1933, 60 million listened
- Truman got elected for second term
- honesty and integrety
- Hoover uncharismatic and lacked empathy
- economic policy
- Republicans blamed for great depression
- 20,000 companies bankrupt
- laissez faire
- Bonus marchers 1932
- hoovervilles
- Promised new deal
- relief, recovery, reform
- stabilised banking, emergency banking relief bill
- coal miners and rail workers back down strikes
- Republicans blamed for great depression
- foreign policy
- encouraged public to enter WW2 after initial relucance
- proved right when holocaust details revealed
- effective leadership at end of ww2
- decisive after dropping bombs Hiroshima and nagasaki
- some not supportive of this and Korea
- decisive after dropping bombs Hiroshima and nagasaki
- encouraged public to enter WW2 after initial relucance
- social policy
- popular with lower classes due to welfare policy
- social security act 1935
- Fair labour standards act 1939
- GI Bill 1944
- Fair labour standards act 1939
- the fair deal
- 1949 national housing act- slums
- underfunded, demolished more than built
- 1949 national housing act- slums
- social security act 1935
- executive order8802
- civil rights a moral issue
- executive order 9980 and 9981
- Roosevelt and Truman did no civil rights legislations
- popular with lower classes due to welfare policy
- personality
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