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The New Deal Dbq

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Ashtyn Forman
Northrop
Dual Credit History
15 April 2018

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in response to the Great Depression that was wreaking havoc on America in the 30’s, enacted a plan called the New Deal. Which entailed a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations to hopefully restore our country to a state of prosperity. The prospects of this New Deal were stated to be all about the three ‘R’s. These three ‘R’s included: Relief for the unemployed and poor, Recovery of the economy back to normal levels, and Reform of the financial system. The goal of this plan was to pull our country out of the Great Depression, to rebuild the nation, and to prevent a depression like this from ever …show more content…

The ideas of the New Deal were generally opposed by conservatives at the time and were generally accepted by liberals. Before the war most women took the role of the stereotypical female job such as tending to the duties at home, raising a family, or small “women’s work” jobs. But with so many working men off fighting in the wars women were forced to take over for many stereotypical men’s jobs ranging from rural and farm work to urban office jobs. Although most women excelled at their jobs during this time and essentially saved our country in their own way because without them while the men were gone our country would have failed, most lost their jobs at the end of the war when the men returned. Though many women did take over the jobs on the homefront while men were fighting many also were working in war industries, especially in munitions plants. Also during World War II approximately 400,000 U.S. women served in support positions with the armed forces. During the war over 2.5 million African- Americans served in the war even though they faced discrimination and segregation they persevered and offered much needed support and force in our military. Back home African- Americans still faced segregation …show more content…

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and is the largest city of Chūgoku region of western Honshu which is the largest island of Japan. On August 6, 1945 at 8:15 A.M. during World War II the United States Army Air Forces ( otherwise known as USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on the city and the city became known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon. The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on the city directly killed about 70,000 people including 20,000 Japanese combatants and 2,000 Korean slave laborers but by the end of the year due to radiation and injury the death count had leapt to approximately 90,000-166,000. Along with the fatalities about 70% of the cities largest buildings were

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