FDR and the Great

Depression

32nd President

Democrat1933-1945

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

1932 election

20th Amendment

First 100 days

Emergency Bank Act

3 R’s- Relief, Recovery, Reform

Relief- Help those in needCCC

PWA

21st Amendment

Meets with the Bonus Army

Recovery- Get us out of the Depression

AAA-Subsidies

NRA

TVA

THE BLUE EAGLE

REFORM-no more depressions!

Margin Calls

FDIC

Reciprocal Trade Agreement

Recognizes Soviet Union

Get off of Gold Standard

Dust Bowl

Second New Deal

WPA

Wagner Act

Social Security

Criticisms

Socialism?

Supreme Court actions

Is it even working?

Unemployment (% labor force)

Year Rate

1933 24.9

1934 21.7

1935 20.1

1936 16.9

1937 14.3

1938 19.0

1939 17.2

1940 14.6

1941 9.9

1942 4.7

1943 1.9

1944 1.2

1945 1.9

Huey Long-the Kingfish

1936 election

Pack the courts

Fireside chats

Wheelchair controversy

Final thoughts?

Lindbergh Baby

Bruno Hauptmann

Isidor Fisch

Violet Sharpe

Trial of the Century- Flemington, NJ

Your Excellence:My writing is not for fear of losing my life,

this is in the hands of God, it is His will. I will go gladly, it means the end of my

tremendous suffering.  Only in thinking of my wife and my little boy, that is breaking my

heart.  I know until this terrible crime is solvet, they will have to suffer unter the

weight of my unfair conviction.I beg you, Attorney General, believe at least a dying man.  Please investigate, because the case is not solvet, it only adds another

death to the Lindbergh case.I thank your Excellence, from the bottom of

my heart, and may God bless you,                                                 Respectfully,                      Bruno Hauptmann