THE GREAT DEPRESSION PART 2

📋 Course Outline

1. Roosevelt election and New Deal goals
2. Banking crisis and Hundred Days emergency powers
3. First New Deal: confidence, finance and economy
4. Alphabet agencies: CCC, FERA and WPA
5. Second New Deal: opposition and Supreme Court
6. Second New Deal: labor, farmers and welfare reforms
7. New Deal results: successes and failures

📖 1. Roosevelt election and New Deal goals

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• New Deal: A set of Roosevelt’s policies aimed at relief, recovery, and reform to address the Great Depression.
• Relief: A New Deal step focused on helping poor and unemployed people survive the crisis.
• Recovery: A New Deal step aimed at restarting the economy and restoring economic activity.
• Reform: A New Deal step meant to change systems so a depression like the one experienced would not happen again.
• Landslide victory: A type of election result where one candidate wins overwhelmingly across many states.

📝 Essential Points

• Roosevelt promised ‘a new deal for the American people’ in the November 1932 election.
• Roosevelt won 42 of the 48 states, described as the biggest election victory of all time.
• Roosevelt’s New Deal had three related steps: Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
• Relief targets survival for the poor and unemployed rather than long-term restructuring.
• After 1935, Roosevelt shifted toward a more radical agenda of social reform.

💡 Memory Hook