The Democrat and the Dictator As we know that that economic downturn from 1929 to 1939 was the deepest and the longest downturn in the history. Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler both were elected as a leader for their nation and purposed policies and ways to improve the economies of their own country and nation. They both were successful in improving their country’s economy, but in a different ways. Franklin Roosevelt an American leader choose the democratic way and Adolf Hitler a German leader choose the dictator way. They both address their proposal to improve economy was address in a speech after they were elected in 1933.
Read both speeches and give an assessment of what these two leaders thought was the cause of the problems their
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Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1933," n.d.). FDR did not specified a time line as compared to Hitler and said, "our primary task is to put people back to work” ("Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1933," n.d.). FDR made unemployment issue the first priority to overcome and express his intention to redistribute the population according to the job market and concentrate on “overbalance of population in our industrial centers” ("Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1933," n.d.). He also calls for a change in banking, relief, agriculture, national planning, international trade, government budget and a friendly neighbor policy and said, “We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good” ("Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1933," n.d.). He did specified his plan and asked the nation to trust him and said, “broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe” ("Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1933," n.d.). He basically want the whole nation to fight with the crises together as one and trust in his intention and future