HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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to strengthen the economy
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to avoid going to war
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to improve public education
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to end racial discrimination
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Detailed explanation-1: -The New Deal had three goals: relief, recovery, and reform. Relief meant that the president wanted to help those in crisis immediately by creating jobs, bread lines, and welfare. Recovery was aimed at fixing the economy and ending the Depression.
Detailed explanation-2: -Major federal programs and agencies included the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration (FSA), the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA).
Detailed explanation-3: -In the short term, New Deal programs helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression. In the long run, New Deal programs set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social affairs of the nation.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent president Herbert Hoover in a landslide.
Detailed explanation-5: -The New Deal programs were known as the three “Rs"; Roosevelt believed that together Relief, Reform, and Recovery could bring economic stability to the nation.
Detailed explanation-6: -Roosevelt was the first Democrat in 80 years to simultaneously win an outright majority of the electoral college and popular vote, a feat last accomplished by Franklin Pierce in 1852, as well as the first Democrat in 56 years to win a majority of the popular vote, which was last done by Samuel J. Tilden in 1876.