New Deal Quiz

[CrusaderFrank]

In what year did the New Deal end the FDR ("Great") Depression?

 

[uscitizen]

Without the new deal projects we may not have won WW2.

 

[Peach]

1938 brought a recession, WWII pulled the US out of the Hoover depression once and for all, but by 1937 the economic outlook was vastly improved compared to 1933.

 

[ccravens]

None of the above.

Many economic historians are now looking to the years immediately AFTER the war as the official "ending" of the GD.

It's hard to think of a depression as being "over" during the war when you have shortages, rationing, much of your labor force conscripted, etc. etc.

 

[Peach]

Without the new deal projects we may not have won WW2.

Yes, FDR made a quick response to the Fascists possible. Yet there were still apologists for Hitler among the rabid right; Japan attacking was the only thing that brought light to the blank spaces of their minds, the Japanese were not "white". Prescott Bush continued to do business with Nazi Germany until it was a crime to do so.

 

[onecut39]

This thread proves the irrelevancy of talking seriously about a complex subject on a partisan message
board.

The OP puts out a stupid poll that is full of false choices. The others that wish to discredit the New Deal show an ignorance that is truly pathetic. Their arguments are on such a low level tha tit is impossible to argue without giving them a textbook of information that they obviously will reject because they have refused to learn anything in the first place.

The new Deal can stand some criticism but that put out here is simply absurd. Embarrassing!

 

[ccravens]

This thread proves the irrelevancy of talking seriously about a complex subject on a partisan message
board.

The OP puts out a stupid poll that is full of false choices. The others that wish to discredit the New Deal show an ignorance that is truly pathetic. Their arguments are on such a low level tha tit is impossible to argue without giving them a textbook of information that they obviously will reject because they have refused to learn anything in the first place.

The new Deal can stand some criticism but that put out here is simply absurd. Embarrassing!

I've got "textbooks of information" supporting my claim; but you will probably just reject them, while not supporting your own claims.

You're correct, however, in your statement about talking seriously about a complex subject on a partisan message board.

Your dismissive post is just another example...

 

[regent]

Yes, now the evidence is overwhelming that FDR did not spend enough on his attempts to pump money into the economy. FDR needed to have war-time spending to end the depression.
But here is a real question for junior historians: the first bill FDR submitted to his 100 days Congress was the bank bill, what was the second?

 

[Mr Natural]

The massive government spending program also known as WWII ended the Great Depression.

 

[ccravens]

Yes, now the evidence is overwhelming that FDR did not spend enough on his attempts to pump money into the economy. FDR needed to have war-time spending to end the depression.

Are you enjoying just making stuff up?

Please show us the "evidence that is overwhelming." Economic historians have been moving away from the "WWII got us out of the GD" for years.

Can you post some of that "overwhelming evidence?"

Or do you just make stuff up?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Without the new deal projects we may not have won WW2.

Yes, FDR made a quick response to the Fascists possible. Yet there were still apologists for Hitler among the rabid right; Japan attacking was the only thing that brought light to the blank spaces of their minds, the Japanese were not "white". Prescott Bush continued to do business with Nazi Germany until it was a crime to do so.

Which response to Fascism would that be, turning the MS St. Louis away? Interring Japanese Americans in camps? Admiring "Uncle Joe" for controlling the Soviet economy and wanting to emulate him here?

Did you know the very phrase "New Deal" comes from a Stalin worshiping US Marxist?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The massive government spending program also known as WWII ended the Great Depression.

So the New Deal never ended the Depression and your only answer is world war with tens of millions killed?

 

[Mr Natural]

The massive government spending program also known as WWII ended the Great Depression.

So the New Deal never ended the Depression and your only answer is world war with tens of millions killed?

Sad that it had to come to that but still government spending nonetheless.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

This thread proves the irrelevancy of talking seriously about a complex subject on a partisan message
board.

The OP puts out a stupid poll that is full of false choices. The others that wish to discredit the New Deal show an ignorance that is truly pathetic. Their arguments are on such a low level tha tit is impossible to argue without giving them a textbook of information that they obviously will reject because they have refused to learn anything in the first place.

The new Deal can stand some criticism but that put out here is simply absurd. Embarrassing!

Painful when you see in black and white what a disaster the New Deal really was, amiright?

The FDR Depression lasted longer than the 7 Biblical Lean years. Yet he is revered as "great" and the New Deal saved America. What a joke

 

[onecut39]

This thread proves the irrelevancy of talking seriously about a complex subject on a partisan message
board.

The OP puts out a stupid poll that is full of false choices. The others that wish to discredit the New Deal show an ignorance that is truly pathetic. Their arguments are on such a low level tha tit is impossible to argue without giving them a textbook of information that they obviously will reject because they have refused to learn anything in the first place.

The new Deal can stand some criticism but that put out here is simply absurd. Embarrassing!

I've got "textbooks of information" supporting my claim; but you will probably just reject them, while not supporting your own claims.

You're correct, however, in your statement about talking seriously about a complex subject on a partisan message board.

Your dismissive post is just another example...

I know what you've got. You have statistics, probably from government, saying unemployment went up in the late thirties. What you don't have and what you don't care about is why this happened.

Now if you would like to talk about that, using that vast knowledge you have, using the very same statistics but getting beyond them to the event that caused them that would be great.

Hey lets do it!

 

[Oddball]

Actually, WWII didn't end the Depression, but it's the closest answer to the truth.

 

[Oddball]

The massive government spending program also known as WWII ended the Great Depression.

No, it didn't...Not directly anyways.

The war years were a time of shortages, rationing, inflation gone wild, nonexistent upward mobility, production and consumption of consumer goods that barely charted, etcetera.

Now, if you want to claim that wiping out the industrial capacity economic competitors and snuffing out millions of lives is a worthy means to "economic stimulus", we have more problems on our hands that mere misunderstanding of economics.

 

[onecut39]

Without the new deal projects we may not have won WW2.

Yes, FDR made a quick response to the Fascists possible. Yet there were still apologists for Hitler among the rabid right; Japan attacking was the only thing that brought light to the blank spaces of their minds, the Japanese were not "white". Prescott Bush continued to do business with Nazi Germany until it was a crime to do so.

Which response to Fascism would that be, turning the MS St. Louis away? Interring Japanese Americans in camps? Admiring "Uncle Joe" for controlling the Soviet economy and wanting to emulate him here?

Did you know the very phrase "New Deal" comes from a Stalin worshiping US Marxist?

Reading your posts bring forth a number of responses. There is mirth because your premises are so hilarious. It is painful to think a voting adult could harbor so many misconceptions. There is embarrassment for you in that you don't seem to realize your ignorance. There is disgust in that you may not be ignorant at all but simply a liar.

 

[boedicca]

WWII provided a temporary jobs program, but FDR and Truman were concerned about the country going into a deep recession after the war ended. Truman proposed New Deal II to Congress, which rejected it in favor of TAX CUTs.

Growth ignited. That's what happens when government shrinks and more money is left in the private sector to invest instead of the government spreading it around.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yes, FDR made a quick response to the Fascists possible. Yet there were still apologists for Hitler among the rabid right; Japan attacking was the only thing that brought light to the blank spaces of their minds, the Japanese were not "white". Prescott Bush continued to do business with Nazi Germany until it was a crime to do so.

Which response to Fascism would that be, turning the MS St. Louis away? Interring Japanese Americans in camps? Admiring "Uncle Joe" for controlling the Soviet economy and wanting to emulate him here?

Did you know the very phrase "New Deal" comes from a Stalin worshiping US Marxist?

Reading your posts bring forth a number of responses. There is mirth because your premises are so hilarious. It is painful to think a voting adult could harbor so many misconceptions. There is embarrassment for you in that you don't seem to realize your ignorance. There is disgust in that you may not be ignorant at all but simply a liar.

I mentioned 4 things:

1. US turned back the MS St Louis
2. FDR interred Japanese Americans
3. FDR Administration admired Soviet control of the economy and tried to emulate it here
4. The phrase "New Deal" comes from a Fabian Society US Marxist (Samuel Chase)

Tell me, in your own words, where'd I go wrong?