The New Deal

• Objective of the "first 100 days" of the New Deal : renew confidence and stability in the U.S.
• The Three "R's" are Relief, Recovery and Reform
• The "First" New Deal used to stabilize the situation of American banks, create governmental agencies employing millions of Americans and Help US companies if they agreed to give better wages, end child labor and allow unions
• The "Second" New Deal created the american "Welfare state" : a new role for the U.S. government, responsible for the social well-being of the Americans
• In 1935, FDR


  pushed for the institutionalization on a national scale of trade unions

  and created social security funds for the unemployed, mothers with dependent children, the disabled, the elderly people and a pension system
• A critics of the New deal is that ethnic minorities were abandoned and not part of the various programs.
• In 1936 FDR was


  reelected, winning 46 states out of 48
• FDR was criticized for not respecting the constitution, for example through "court packing"
• In 1937, FDR stopped some


  government programs which led to a recession and a rising number of criticism. But the tensions of Europe and the Pacific soon stole the public's attention