FDR and His Legacy

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• Why did President Franklin Roosevelt want to offer help to the Allies?
• How did the New Deal change the relationship between citizens and their government?
• How did the New Deal help the United States during the Great Depression?
• Was the New Deal a success?
• Why did the supreme court not support Roosevelt and his New Deal?
• Why was the New Deal unconstitutional?
• How did the New Deal affect women?
• What were some of the major criticisms of the New Deal?
• Was the New Deal radical or conservative?
• What permanent changes took place for labor unions as a result of the New Deal?
• What were some of the limitations of the New Deal?
• Which President broadcast weekly fireside chats on the radio?
• What was it about FDR that stunned Stalin and Churchill at the Yalta Conference in February of 1944?
• Why did President Franklin Roosevelt encourage the passage of the Lend-Lease Act?
• What was Roosevelt's goal in creating the SEC and FDIC?
• When FDR said there was nothing to fear but fear itself, what did he mean?
• What did FDR set aside 12 million acres of land for?
• What did Roosevelt and Congress pass the day after FDR's inauguration?
• How did the New Deal help the U.S. economy recover following the Great Depression?
• How did the New Deal support labor organizations?
• Why did FDR develop the Supreme Court Packing Plan?
• What was President's Roosevelt impact on U.S. foreign policy?
• What group declared some of Roosevelt's new deal policies unconstitutional?
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• Which political party did FDR belong to?
• What New Deal program protected Native American lands from being taken?
• How did the New Deal attempted to revive the farm economy during the 1930s?
• What was the chief complaint of conservatives against the New Deal?
• How did the United States support the Allies after Roosevelt's reelection?
• How did FDR try to end the Great Depression?
• Do you think President Roosevelt was right to take the nation to war against Japan?
• Why did President Roosevelt ask Congress to declare war against Japan?
• How did the U.S. government change its response to the Great Depression after the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president?
• According to his Four Freedoms speech, what does Roosevelt suggest will allow world to have "freedom from tear"?
• How did the New Deal help programs provide relief to the needy?
• What similarities did the New Deal have to Progressive Era policies?
• What were the goals of President Roosevelt's "fireside chats"? How did he achieve his goals?
• What were the three R's of FDR's New Deal?
• What political party was FDR?
• How did Franklin Roosevelt's election as president change the way the U.S. government responded to the Great Depression?
• Why did FDR get elected in 1932?