Monday, Feb. 22, 2010
Today Mr. Bruns explained our next blog assignment. The questions we have to answer are, Define what the Treaty of Versailles was, Describe what the Treaty specifically did, and Do you think the Treaty of Versailles helped lead to World War II? And Explain. We also talked about the test questions. We are going to take the test starting Wednesday. The first question we talked about was, Describe the cycle of the Great Depression. The cycle is people stop buying because their in debt or already have everything so companies lose money, companies then have to fire people, then there are more people out there with no money, so less and less people buy things. The major difference between the first new deal(first one helped businesses, top down, helped wealthy people first and went down.) the second new deal(went from bottom up, helped the poor people). The three R’s, relief(for the people), reform(for the banks), recovery(from the Depression).
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Why did people criticize the new deal was the next question. Francis Townsend thought the plan should do more for the old people, some people also thought that they weren’t doing enough for the poor, Huey Long wanted to take from the rich and give to the poor, ‘share the wealth.’ The other side was that people thought he was doing too much and thought we was being a communist. They thought he was making people lazy because he was giving them money, so they thought they would never have to work again. Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court and what did he do to solve the issue? The Supreme Court thought his plan was unconstitutional. Court Packing, FDR, a democrat, tried to stack the court with democrats so they would always decide with him on things. He wanted to add one new justice for every one over 70 years old. This did not pass, some people thought he was being too dictatorship like. He thought the people on the court were too old and old-fashioned. We talked about the key terms next.
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