Long’s perception championed the rights of the “common man” through financial stimulation and federal spending on public works. By 1935 He had promoted and produced a plethora of roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, old age pensions, and as well as supplied free immunizations to nearly 70 percent of the population. The reality of Long’s projects had provided thousands of much needed jobs for a lower class culture, creating a “working class” society. Although immensely popular for his programs and willingness to take forceful action, "I used to try to get things done by saying 'please', now...I dynamite 'em out of my path.” Long’s open-minded philosophies were often misinterpreted. His argument “Every man a King” suggested that every person is equal
I will be focusing on just a few key areas that have been struck due to the recession for President Obama and the Great Depression for President Roosevelt and how each man either fixed the problem or is attempting to. Here is just a short list of issues: unemployment rate, financial institutions and the stock market. Just like President Roosevelt, President Obama hit the ground running with his uncanny ability to act upon the economic crisis that was yet again effecting the American people. Obama scored major points with the people since within his first hundred days in office he was able to get congress a much needed stimulus package for their approval that would take care of the financial crisis the American people were facing with major businesses and financial institutions declining at a very fast pace. However, Roosevelt was facing a much worse scenario with an unemployment rate of nearly 25% after the stock market crash of 1929.
Mahan thought that the country with the most powerful navy would control the earth. He believed we should build a canal, and to protect the canal by controlling Hawaii and Cuba, which he thought was a necessity. During this time, thoughts of Anglo-Saxon superiority were a common "excuse" for imperialism. The political scientist and professor of Columbia University, John Burgess said the Anglo-Saxon races were "particularly endowed with the capacity for establishing national state, they are entrusted with the mission of conducting the political civilization of the modern world." Even before McKinley's presidency, he showed interest in foreign markets for the surplus of American products.
There are many events which highlight the importance of this policy no more so than the first and second Moroccan crisis. This event pronounced German military strength as the gunboat panther moored off the coast of Agadir during a minor revolt in French colony of Morocco. Consequently Germany was given land in Congo in order to pacify the growing state. He goes on to say ‘ as early as 1906, Germany had in place a plan for an aggressive war’ which suggests that Germany had planned for war in order to secure assets such as ‘lebensraum’ which would satisfy the desire of the growing pan German movement and raw materials which would satisfy the desire of the ever growing Industrial machine. Fischer strengthens this
In the year 1924 one of Stresemann’s aims as Foreign Minister of Germany was to get the country back on its feet financially so that it would be possible to keep up with the set negotiations by the Treaty of Versailles. Being that when the Weimar Government signed the Treaty they agreed to pay reparation to all of the allied countries at a cost of £6.6 Billion, this proved to be very hard for German economy to keep up with after the First World War. Stresemann helped Germany at this point by adding reforms to the country such as the Dawes Plan; this was an agreement made between he and American banker Charles G. Dawes had made that stated that the Ruhr area was to be evacuated by Allied occupation troops, the Reichsbank would be reorganized under Allied supervision, and sources for the reparation money would include transportation, excise, and custom taxes. This ended the hyperinflation and also gave Germany longer to pay reparations. Stresemann was also able to make the agreement with the USA that America would be lending Germany 800 million gold marks, which kick-started the German economy.
There were many attributes that aided Hitler in his rise to power. Since the First World War in 1914 Germany’s government had been very unstable, and of course was not helped by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Due to the reparations evoked by the treaty and the cost of war, Germany experienced hyperinflation that was only solved in 1924 with a series of loans from America. Just as Germany’s economy was improving the Wall Street crash occurred in 1929 where America requested repayment of all their loans. These events created the perfect conditions for a new radical party to rise to power: The Nazis.
Empires were expensive to build and to defend, and the growth of nationalism and imperialism led to increased military spending. By 1890 the strongest nation on the European continent was Germany, which had set up an army reserve system that drafted and trained young men. Countries alike developed this system, always relying on their navy for defense and protection. Lastly, by 1907 there were two major defense alliances in Europe. The Triple Entente, later known as the Allies, consisted of France, Britain, and Russia.
With the help of the rearmament programme, unemployment was virtually eliminated by 1939. While government investment was the most important factor in this, the improvement in the world economy also helped. To help the farmers the Reich Food estate was set up in September 1933. It reorganised food production and fixed crop prices. Laws were passed to guarantee small farmers continued ownership of their farms.
And Wilson used his Moral Diplomacy. During Theodore Roosevelt’s administration (1901-1909), President Roosevelt inherited the United States rising as an Imperial Power, rendering off any European presence in the Western Hemisphere, conquering the Philippines and Hawaii as an access point to get to China, and not to mention provoke Panama to gain their independence from Colombia, and gain the isthmus territory to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Roosevelt showed the world that the United States was a very influential powerful country by sending the Great White Fleet on a world tour, demonstrating its military rise. Roosevelt believed that the underdeveloped countries of the world should be watched and policed, and his Roosevelt Corollary modified the Monroe Doctrine. His famous quote was “speak softly and carry a big stick”, which meant that you should negotiate in matter that both sides win, but if not in agreement then you should persuade the matter and use force if necessary.
Hitler would tell the country what they wanted to hear, one example was providing jobs as unemployment increased massively. He also became more popular after he led the campaign against the Young Plan; this reduced the reparations that they had to pay in 1929. All the actions that Hitler made boosted the electoral support for the Nazi party. To an even larger extent than the popularity of Hitler himself came the great depression in 1929 as a result of the Wall Street crash in the USA. The Nazi party took advantage of this in Germany, as the Weimar government weakened the Nazi party rose.