FDR's successes and failures of the New Deal

Give the 3R’s to help remember the areas of success for FDR’s new deal?

• Relief

• Reform

• Recovery

Relief-

• What act set up by FDR set up a national system of old-age pensions and unemployment benefit for the first time.

• True/False, “never before had the federal government become involced in granting direct relief or benefits. leading to a greater role for state and local governments as partners.”

• Social Security Act

• True

Reform

• Give 3 areas of reform by FDR

• Social, economic, political

Recovery

• FDR believed in what sort of budget? This made him reluctant to spend excessively on federal projects.

• His actions led to a reduction in budget deficit, much lower than Hoover’s $ … billion in 1932.

• Reduction in unemployment by 1/2 from 1933 to 1939?

• Balanced Budget

• $2.5 billion

• 18 million → 9 million

• True/False, WW2’s impact played a greater role in economic recovery than the New Deal ever did?

• The number of women employed by the end of the war was at …%

• True/False, the number of African Americans working for the federal government rose from 50,000 → 200,000 from 1939-1944.

• How many million jobs were created during US involvement in WW2, causing a rise in the GNP- Gross National Product ?

• True.

• 60%

• True

• 15 million