based on the quotation, why did roosevelt believe her work with the united nations in the 1940s was significant?
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FDR's First Inaugural Address Declaring 'War' on the Great Depression
Declaring "War" on the Great Depression Background By late winter 1933, the nation had already endured more than three years of economic depression. Statistics revealing the depth of the Great Depression were staggering. More than 11,000 of 24,000 banks had failed, destroying the savings of depositors. Millions of people were out of work and seeking jobs; additional millions
FDR's First Inaugural Address Declaring 'War' on the Great Depression
FDR's First Inaugural Address Declaring 'War' on the Great Depression Declaring "War" on the Great Depression
Background
By late winter 1933, the nation had already endured more than three years of economic depression. Statistics revealing the depth of the Great Depression were staggering. More than 11,000 of 24,000 banks had failed, destroying the savings of depositors. Millions of people were out of work and seeking jobs; additional millions were working at jobs that barely provided subsistence. Currency values dropped as the deflationary spiral continued to tighten and farm markets continued to erode.
During the previous summer the Democratic Party had unveiled a generalized plan for economic recovery in its platform. They called their platform a "contract" and set forth in it a series of provisions to remedy the economic disaster. Although frequently lacking specifics, the platform addressed a wide range of issues: among them were agricultural relief, Prohibition, unemployment, and old age insurance. While not followed very closely by Franklin Roosevelt's administration, the platform did indicate that election of the Democratic candidate would result in unprecedented governmental growth to deal with the problems pressing on the nation. Roosevelt set about to prepare the nation to accept expansion of federal power. Roosevelt recognized that the programs he was about to introduce for congressional legislative action to relieve the dire effects of the Great Depression were unprecedented in peacetime.
In his 1933 inaugural address Roosevelt stated: "Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has produced. It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations." Yet, at the same time, he was prepared to recommend measures that he knew could succeed only with strong public pressure in support of extraordinary federal powers to deal with "extraordinary needs."
The first document featured with this article is the speech given on Inauguration Day in March 1933. It is particularly memorable for its attack on the psychology of the Great Depression. Less memorable but more enduring is the justification that Roosevelt planned to use to expand the power of the federal government to achieve his legislative objectives and thereby ease the effects of the Great Depression. Woven throughout his inaugural address was his plan. He aimed to declare war on the Great Depression and needed all the executive latitude possible in order to wage that war. For in addition to his famous statement "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he also said "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis -- 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."
Resources
Graham, Otis L., Jr. An Encore for Reform: The Old Progressives and the New Deal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Leuchtenburg, William. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
The Documents
First Inaugural Address
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First Carbon Files 1933 - 1945
National Archives Identifier: 197333
Sgt. Burke of the US Army Briefs New Replacements on CCC Camp Rules
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Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Record Group 142
National Archives Identifier: 532776
"CCC Boys at Work"Prince George County, Virginia
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Public Domain Photographs
1882-1962
National Archives Identifier: 195829
WPA Sewing Shop, New York CityClick to Enlarge
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Works Progress Administration
Record Group 69
National Archives Identifier: 518269
"Reunion Day First Campers Join Second Campers"FERA Camps for Unemployed
Women in Arcola, Pennsylvania
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Public Domain Photographs
1882-1962
National Archives Identifier: 196581
Unemployed Men Eating in Volunteers of America Soup Kitchen, Washington, D.C.
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The following quotations may be found in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial:
Prologue
"Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence."
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Term (1933-1937) - The Great Depression
"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
June 27, 1936
"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American People."
July 2, 1932
"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice...the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man."
October 2, 1932
"No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order."
September 30, 1934
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
March 4, 1933
"Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men."
January 24, 1935
"Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races."
October 26, 1936
Second Term (1937-1941) - The New Deal
"I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust."
April 14, 1938
"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
January 20, 1937
"It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers."
April 10, 1933
"I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."
March 21, 1933
"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
January 9, 1940
Third Term (1941-1945) - The Second World War
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy."
December 29, 1940
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded...I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed...I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."
August 14, 1936
"They [who] seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."
March 15, 1941
"We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war."
February 12, 1943
Fourth Term (1945) - Legacy
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."
Prepared for April 13, 1945
"Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind."
February 12, 1943
"The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation...it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world."
March 1, 1945
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
Prepared for April 13, 1945
"Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear."
January 6, 1941
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
In the summer of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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In the summer of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. In his acceptance speech, Roosevelt addressed the problems of the depression by telling the American people that, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." In the election that took place in the fall of 1932, Roosevelt won by a landslide.
The New Deal Roosevelt had promised the American people began to take shape immediately after his inauguration in March 1933. Based on the assumption that the power of the federal government was needed to get the country out of the depression, the first days of Roosevelt's administration saw the passage of banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs. Later, a second New Deal was to evolve; it included union protection programs, the Social Security Act, and programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. Many of the New Deal acts or agencies came to be known by their acronyms. For example, the Works Progress Administration was known as the WPA, while the Civilian Conservation Corps was known as the CCC. Many people remarked that the New Deal programs reminded them of alphabet soup.
By 1939, the New Deal had run its course. In the short term, New Deal programs helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression. In the long run, New Deal programs set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social affairs of the nation.
To search for more documents in Loc.gov related to New Deal programs and agencies, use such terms as Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration, Farm Security Administration, and the National Recovery Administration.
Documents
An African American (Eugenia Martin) and the WPA
New Deal Agencies
Row shelters, FSA ... labor camp, Robstown, Tex.
The mail must go through.
PWA (Public Works Administration) housing project for Negroes. Omaha, Nebraska
Swimming pool created by CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) dam
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Unionism
Disagreeing with the New Deal
The New Deal Was a Failure
Roosevelt Is a "Damned Good Man"
The Works Progress Administration
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