Question

1. What are the different political and economic approaches to the Great Depression?

2. Process by which the US became involved in or stay away from European affairs from 1900-1960 (think broadly over time)

Answer 1

1. What are the different political and economic approaches to the Great Depression?

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s.^[1] It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century

This was undeniably an era of extraordinary political innovation, much of it expressed in the reforms enacted by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 2

1932 Roosevelt is elected president

1933 First Hundred Days: Congress and Roosevelt establish many New Deal agencies, including CCC, FERA, CWA, AAA, TVA, and PWA Twenty-First Amendment is ratified

1934 Congress creates Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Key People

Franklin Delano Roosevelt -  32nd U.S. president; immediately set to work creating New Deal policies to end Great Depression upon taking office in 1933

John Maynard Keynes - British economist who believed that deficit spending during recessions and depressions could revive national economies; his theories formed the basis of Roosevelt