Franklin would admit that the first parts of the New Deal were in part experimental. He would weed out what didn’t work and press on with what did. His persistence with the new deal through 1939 brought America out of the depression and returned a balanced budget. With the economy on the up rise, Roosevelt now turned to foreign policy, something that had been put on a back burner because of the economy. He felt strongly about keeping good relations with other countries, but at the same time warned Americans of the danger of remaining isolated from a world that was slowly being taken over by dictators in Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Oliver Brown, a black parent, was not happy with this inequality that he brought a case in the US District Court against the Topeka Board of Education. However, the black parents were unsuccessful. They decided to take their case to the US Supreme Court, supported by legal experts from the NAACP. On Monday 17, May 1954, Oliver Brown finally won his case and defeated the doctrine of “separate but equal”. Although the legal outcome was positive, desegregation at schools were unsuccessful in most Southern states.
...read more. Middle The President of the Weimar Republic had potential to become a military dictator. This was a political problem for the Weimar Republic because the President could ignore the Chancellor and the Reichstag. Another reason why the Weimar Republic started so badly was that there were economic problems. The Communists disliked the new republic because not much would change.
The Weimar Republic had recently failed and they were still sore about The Treaty of Versailles. Hitler tapped into this desperation and gave the German population a vision of prosperity and a greater Germany. This made the majority of Germans were compliant with the Nazi party and those who liked Hitler but did not really agree with some of his policies turned a blind eye to them. The young population also took a liking to Hitler as his youth organisation, The Hitler Youth gave them a sense of purpose. There was also the equivalent for women, The League of German Maidens.
Black campaigners tried to use the fact that they fought in the war to gain respect and equality. However, there was still a very high number of racism in the southern states and the number of lynchings increased after the war. This shows that even after the effort the black put into helping in the war, they were still classed as second class citizens and not respected in the same way as
The main issue that faced any African-American living in the US was segregation. Under the Jim Crow laws -established in 1877- there was a ‘separate but equal’ policy that was later upheld by the U.S. Supreme court (Plessy v. Ferguson); unfortunately, although races were very much made to be separated, there was no equality whatsoever. White people justified their mistreatment of African-Americans by claiming racial superiority and arguing that blacks were unfit for ‘civilised society’. From this time onwards, African-Americans were not given the right to freedom: they had minimal education facilities; they were segregated from the white Americans and lynchings were a common site. Black Americans were made to live a tough life under the laws of the Southern states of the US.
Many people believe another fault of the League of Nations that contributed to war was; how they appeased Hitler by letting him have Czechoslovakia. They did this because they thought it would reduce chances of war, yet Hitler soon broke the agreement they had made and war started. Although many people would argue that the above cause was the fault of the League of Nations, I disagree because, if Hitler had not been so aggressively demanding, they would not have needed to appease him. However, the League of Nations is not completely without fault, Italy was disappointed by the League of Nations as she was denied territory promised by Britain and France. This lead Mussolini and Italy to join forces with Germany, making them bear resentment and wanting war.
The personalities influenced the cold war, despite not being as significant as the other factors. Stalin being manipulative and ruthless instantly suggesting that relations with other countries, so different from his and he was very cautious of this. Source 8 suggests his personality, ‘threw Stalin back into neurotic solitude’ after the A bomb of 1945. Also after the death of Roosevelt which was Stalins ‘dream partner’ there was no need ‘to forge a strong relationship’ between the new politicians. When it
The Great depression itself also created reasons for the outbreak of aggression in the Manchurian crisis. The Great depression is the reason that Hitler fell in to power. Hitler did not agree with the concept of collective security and the attempts to prevent war. Nearly all the nations gave up hope and lost motivation to preserve peace and
The consequences of the cold war and the emergence of the two super powers also made civil rights movement make little progress- the USA and USSR who were a threat to one another so because of such conflicts between the two there was regression of the civil rights movement. There were no well-known leaders in 1950-54 who were motivated and willing to make change and make civil rights movement’s progress. However after the Second World War people began to realise that a transformation was necessary so civil rights movement began to progress then onwards. Inspirational leaders including Truman Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall saw the incident of Rosa Parks and realised so Truman desegregated armed forces and improved aspects of life for the African Americans. The help of the NAACP also helped civil rights to progress because the group wanted to fight for the rights for African Americans.