New Deal Vs Ww2 Essay

During week twelve we discussed, The Great Depression and New Deal, 1927-1940 and World War II, 1940-1945. Both of these events had significance during a hard time for America because the country just gone through the worst Great Depression they have seen since 1800 when the first Great Depression occurred. The Great Depression is argued to have ended because of the start of World War II, during this time historical figures such as Charles LIndbergh and Randolph emerged and argued about different platforms as their stand for America entering World War II. The Great Depression began with stock market crash of 1929 while banks and farms began to fail as well (Zeide 10/31). During this time “Hoovervilles” were on the rise and they were little raggedy shacks that American citizens began living in. Franklin Delano Roosevelt ended up beating Hoover in the 1932 election and began proposing New Deal plans such as, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Social Security Act, and Fair Labor Standards Act (Zeide 10/31). Less than ten years later,

There were American’s fighting against entering the war, there were Americans who believed it was our duty to enter the war and there there were Americans who believed problems at home needed to be fixed first, segregation. The “Double V” platform began and some believed that the war was not in Europe with Hitler, but against the Hitler in America (Zeide 11/2). African Americans were launching campaigns back home about equality, Randolph said, “Though I have found no Negroes who want to see the United Nations lose this war, I have found many who, before the war ends, want to see the stuffing knocked out of white supremacy and of empire over subject peoples” (Randolph 8). There were strong feeling from African Americans who were willing to help in the war but ultimately just wanted things on American soil to be