1. The 1930s and the New Deal

2. #1. The 1930s and the New Deal Depression. 1929-1932
Causes
Consequences
The first New Deal
FDR
First measures
Opposition
The second New Deal
Back to the common man
FDR and the financial world
The End of the New Deal
Culture in the 1930s
Interpreting the New Deal

3. The 1930s and the New Deal
No overarching interpretation of such complex phenomenon
Not the result of FDR alone. Role of the New Dealers in complex networks of expertise and power
Part of a long process of reform of American economy and politics.
Yet suffered from both a strong and continuous opposition in Congress and internal ideological limitations
Establishment of a form of “welfare state”
Broker state arbitrating between groups, with a vastly enlarged power