1. America in the 1930s FDR and the New Deal

2. A depressed nation

3. Winter 1932/33

4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Born to a wealthy family in New York state in 1882 Trained as a lawyer before entering politics Assistant Secretary to the Navy during WWI Married Eleanor Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt’s niece) in 1905 Contracted polio in 1921, left him permanently disabled. Surprised many by his determination to lead a normal life.

5. The Inauguration of FDR

6. Over to you… Make a list of the major factors that FDR’s administration had to solve. 1)Overproduction 2)Under consumption 3)Bank failures 4)Corruption in major corporations and financial system 5)Unequal distribution of wealth 6)Farm incomes fallen from $22 billion (1919) to $8 billion (1928) 7)High tariffs on exports to the USA 8)25% unemployment 9)Despair among American people, sense of pessimism.

7. The First New Deal, 1933-34 Key question: Did it provide relief and start recovery?

8. The Hundred Days

9. …one major problem!

10. What were the New Deal programmes? Aims of 1 st New Deal: 1)To relieve human suffering 2)To promote economic recovery

11. Aims to be achieved by…

12. Major legislation of the first New Deal, 1933-34

14. Why were the Hundred Days important? The hundred Days Halted banking panic The TVA created a unique experiment in regional development Gave hope and optimism in place of despair Demonstrated the energy and commitment of Roosevelt to the nations recovery Set aside billions of dollars for federal relief to the unemployed Initiated the biggest public works programme in American Invented new institutions to restructure the economy

15. The second New Deal, 1935-38 Key question: Did it complete recovery and start reform?

16. FDR re-elected in 1936 “In spite of our efforts and in spite of all our talk, we have not weeded out the over-privileged, and we have not effectively lifted up the under-privileged. We do not destroy ambition, no do we seek to divide our wealth into equal shares – we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him and his a proper life is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”

17. FDR’s new focus

18. Major legislation of the second New Deal, 1935-38

21. Why had the depression not ended by 1939? YESNOMAYBE

22. Conclusion: America in the 1930s – Did the New Deal end the Depression?