In this speech, given during his 1932 presidential campaign, Franklin D. Roosevelt laid out his reasons for believing that a new relationship or “social contract” between the American people and its government was
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In one of his last campaign speeches during the 1932 presidential election, incumbent Herbert Hoover offered an analysis of the New Deal proposed by his opponent, Democratic New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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The United States: Isolation - InterventionThe United States remained neutral during the first two years of World War II, from September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, to December 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. As the Axis forces expanded their territorial holdings in Europe and Asia, Americans debated whether to aid the Allied powers economically or militarily.
New DealThe New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Domestic affairsFDR's mandate as a first-term President was clear and challenging: rescue the United States from the throes of its worst depression in history. Economic conditions had deteriorated in the four months between FDR's election and his inauguration. Unemployment grew to over twenty-five percent of the nation's workforce, with more than twelve million Americans out of work. A new wave of bank failures hit in February 1933. Upon accepting the Democratic nomination, FDR had promised a "New Deal" to help America out of the Depression, though the meaning of that program was far from clear.
Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal by 