1. 33 The Great Depression and the New Deal

2. 1932 Elections

3. 1936 Elections

4. 1940 Elections

5. 1944 Elections

6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

7. The Economy in Free Fall

8. The Economy in Free Fall
There were many causes that led to the economic downturn and many events and beliefs exacerbated the situation, creating a more difficult problem from which to recover.

9. Feeling the Depression

10. Feeling the Depression
Everyone felt the Depression, some positively, most negatively.

11. Effects—Discuss Ate little and poorly Shut off electricity
Only bought necessities
Didn’t go to the doctor
Barely heated homes in the winter, if they had homes
Exhausted their savings
Wives and children tried to find work
Searched for jobs until they gave up in despair
Young men went to the rails
Emotional depression
Disintegration of the family structure
Lost homes
Increase of disease (typhoid and diphtheria) and malnutrition
No school because no clothes (common to see naked children), or schools closed

12. The Dust Bowl

13. Hoover as President

14. Hoover as President

15. Hoover as President
Hoover’s personality was not cut out to be president in such dire times, and the role of the president hadn’t yet been mandated to make necessary programs to help the country during the Depression.

16. Discuss
What steps could Hoover have taken to combat the worst of the Great Depression? What steps could other people have taken? Is it fair to blame Hoover for the worst of the depression?

17. FDR as President

18. The First 100 Days

19. The First 100 Days

20. The First 100 Days

21. The First 100 Days
FDR brought an energetic set of programs that sometimes succeeded, sometimes failed, but definitely changed the role of the government in people’s lives.

22. Discuss
Compare the New Deal to approaches Presidents Bush and Obama have taken to combat our current “great recession”. Also consider what presidential candidates have proposed. Are there any overlaps?

23. Moving Left

24. Moving Left
As the country moved to more radical leanings, FDR and his administration responded to this with more left-leaning programs which garnered more support for the New Deal.

25. The Ebbing of Reform

26. The Ebbing of Reform

27. The Ebbing of Reform

28. The Ebbing of Reform
Eleanor Roosevelt pushed for improved rights for African Americans, but the Southern Democrats had too much power for FDR to make much headway in this area; thus, the New Deal did not improve the lot of African Americans substantially but it did make Democrats out of many blacks.

29. Discuss
Would it have been possible to further address race relations during the late 1930s? Was FDR not willing enough, or was it not politically savvy to do so?

30. The Social Fabric

31. The Social Fabric
The Depression did see some social responses to the economic times, but other trends from the 1910s and 1920s continued.

32. The New Deal

33. The New Deal

34. The New Deal

35. The New Deal

36. Discuss
Which of the New Deal programs do you feel had the most significant impact on the US? Which do you feel has had the greatest lasting impact on the US?