Great Depression and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Which of these two crises was the most serious america faced?
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The great depression seemed to hit the American people a lot harder then the cuban missile crisis. American people were forced to live in shanty towns which they named 'Hoovervilles' after the president...The riff with Cuba though has still has not been sorted out completed with the US...
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Because of the Great Depression
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This smells like a research paper you should be doing your own research for.  I'll just say the foreign policy of the 1950's was totally dominated by worldwide struggle with the USSR for allies and hegemony.  Everything else was secondary.  On top of the perpetual war footing and a major shooting war in Korea there was the threat of nuclear holocaust.  And the American imagination has latched onto the idea that this decade was innocent and carefree, a Golden Age that makes our own times dark and frightening in comparison.  This grotesque glorification of the past plays right into the hands of the current regime, which manipulates fear to stay in power and strip away our constitutional rights.
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At the worst point of the Great Depression, in 1933, one in four Americans who wanted to work was unable to find a job. Further, it was not until 1941, when World War II was underway, that the official unemployment rate finally fell below 10%.\n\nYou know you are right I scanned dozens of papers and they all reference the percentage and not the actual 12 million that I am guessing :-)
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FDR -- Franklin Roosevelt.\nHe brought the country out of the worst depression we've ever faced, made us into a world power economically and militarily, stayed out of WWII until Japan attacked, then led us ably through that long and difficult conflict.  No other president has had trials as difficult or results as good.
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In order of seriousness:\n\n1)  The imminent collapse of the currency\n\n2)  Ethno-racial balkanization of society\n\n3)  The strategic alliance between China and Russia officially termed the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization"\nor SCO\n\n4)  The imminent depletion of cheaply available oil, aka "Peak Oil"\n\n5)  The ongoing process of climactic change which we have not even begun to perceive clearly\n\n6)  The massive, negative synergy between all of the above which together will produce what: \n\nKunstler calls "The Long Emergency", \nWiddower calls "The Coming Dark Age", \nOrlov calls "The Age of Collapse", \nPrieur calls "The Crash of Civilization"\n\nActually come to think of it the synergy among all these factors really is in the long run the most serious problem of all.....\n\nBummer huh?\n\nNimadan
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The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missle Crisis.  The Berlin Wall went up and JFK gave a speech in Berlin criticizing communism.  Things heated up in Southeast Asia and JFK sent Special Advisors (one of them Robert McNamara) into Viet Nam to report on the situation.  John Glenn became the first man to orbit the Earth and Kennedy asked Congress to approve more than 22 billion dollars for Project Apollo, which had the goal of landing an American man on the Moon before the end of the decade.  Kennedy appointed Byron Raymond White and Arthur Joseph Goldberg to the US Supreme Court (both in 1962).  Kennedy used the term New Frontier as a label for his domestic programs. It ambitiously promised federal funding for education, health care for the elderly, and government intervention to halt the recession. He formed the Peace Corps and put his brother-in-law, Sargeant Shriver, in charge.  Kennedy also promised an end to racial discrimination.  He sent US Marshalls to protect the Freedom Riders and federal troops to stop the race riot at the University of Mississippi when James Meredith was admitted as a student.  His wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, refurbished the White House and secured funding for it and its artifacts by classifying it as a museum.  Also on the domestic front, in 1963 Kennedy proposed a tax reform that included income tax cuts, but this was not passed by the Congress until after his death in 1964. It is one of the largest tax cuts in modern U.S. history, surpassing the Reagan tax cut of 1981.
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This is a cheap way to get somebody to do your homework for you but I will try:\n\nPresidential leadership in the 21st century was difficult, especially in terms of national security.  The century started with World War I.  This war created a foreign policy problem that at the time seemed like an excellent solution - isolationism.  It also created political unrest in Europe that led to Fascism and Communism.\n\nThe United States did not immediately enter World War II, and an attack on U.S. soil at Pearl Harbor became the ultimate issue of national security for President Roosevelt.  The war was won, and the Fascists were never again a problem.\n\nThen the Communists in the Soviet Union began their Cold War with the United States.  Until 1992, this threat to national security would continue to be at the forefront of the country's foreign relations problems.  The Soviet Union and Communism in general would account for the U.S. entering two more wars, Korea and Vietnam.  These wars were fought under the policy set forth by the Truman Doctrine.  This was a policy of containment of Communism.\n\nIn 1962, under Kennedy, the Soviet Union seemed to be preparing for its first attack on the U.S.  In this matter of national security, Kennedy was able to combine diplomacy with compromise and an blockade to stop weapon building in Cuba.  This was the closest people say the U.S. ever got to a nuclear war.\n\nIn 1992, the Soviet Union finally collapsed, but that did not end the United States trouble with national security.  The Gulf War, and other wars where the U.S. helped Israel defend attack, had caused disgruntled Arab nations that could not win a typical war to result to the guerilla tactics of terrorism.  This war, which extremist Muslims call the Jihad, is still the national security problem today.\n\nOK, so it isn't everything you need for a paper and some of the stuff is out of order (or at least the order I would put it in) and it isn't proofread, but can I have the 10 points anyway?
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Jimmy Carter .\nHigh taxes , high inflation , high interest rates , Unanswered acts of terrorism against the US , Slashed military budgets and manpower , Gasoline shortage and high prices , high unemployment ,
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Most definitely. As the leader of the United States during arguably the most difficult time of our history, he pushed Congress to pass emergency bills and reform measures that helped improve the economic situation in the eyes of the public. Though many historians say the beginning of World War II ended the Depression, I think that if it weren't for FDR's leadership, American morale would have fell too far to possibly recover economically.
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< The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or "depression") that ran from 1929 to 1941. It led to massive bank failures, high unemployment, as well as dramatic drops in GDP, industrial production, stock market share prices and virtually every other measure of economic growth. It bottomed out in 1933, but it would be well after World War II before such indicators as industrial production, share prices and global GDP could surpass their 1929 levels.
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Cold War is called the conflict that existed between the USA and the USSR after the end of WWII. The world was divided in two sectors: the west, occidental, "christian", democratic, etc, with USA and allies; and the East, communist, etc. with the USSR and its puppets, under the power of the USSR. It was a situation of contained confrontation, like to forces pushing in opposite directions without a clear winner. Sometimes the tension provoked some very risky situations, such as the Missiles Crisis in Cuba, or persecutions, such as the famous Mc Carthy, black lists in the USA. IN the USSR, everything coming from the west was a threat. In the west, anything coming from the East was communist. With the end of the USSR--in the beginning of the 90's--and its communist satellites, the Cold War reached an end, fortunately, without a nuclear war. I suggest you not only consult a good book of Political History, but to watch a great and famous black and white movie of Stanley Kubrick (I dont remember exactly the name) for a satiric view of the Cold War.
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You bring up a good point.\n\nAs I began to educate myself concerning 20th century USA history, a compelling question leaped out at me, '..since all the wars evolved around stopping the spread of communism, WHY or HOW did communism threaten our way of life or our capitalist structure?"\n\nI mean seriously... our leaders felt so threatened by the spread of communism that they literally went to war REPEATEDLY and sacrificed American lives to stop it. Why? If communism is so bad and capitalism is so grand then what is the threat? Wouldn't the ppl themselves reject it?\n\nI honestly think the answer to that question is that when ppl truly do understand the fairness and equality of communism they tend to choose that over the class system of capitalism... that is what we feared. That is my opinion.\n\nBtw, your 80s data is a little off. We didn't have an encounter with Iran in the 80s. There was the Iran/Contra scandal in 1979 but that didn't result in military action. Gulf War 1, involving Iraq, was in 1989.
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hmmmm. that one is tricky. but take ww2 for ex. the war was a big boost for the economy esp. since it started during the depression. it gave people jobs. and helped with the stock market. socially it wasn't so great though it did help people by boosting there moral as in getting jobs. but on the German front it was devastating to Jews and anyone the Germans persecuted. long term it ended up bringing Communism which as we all know isn't that great. so basically you are looking for anything that would be kinda like that where you could see a drastic impact on all fronts. good luck. hope i helped if not sorry.
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the irony was that war was good for the world economically as it spured their economies.  as world war 2 started, they needed workers for the factories to produce bombs and guns.  soon, the unemployment rate went down, and the US especially was starting to profit through the selling of weaponry to other countries before Lend Lease Act.  as more people are working, they get paid, and the economy goes for the better.  another one in a very small role was the New Deal by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  while it didn't stop the great depression, it put the US in the fast track by creating more jobs and putting new laws and restrictions in the economy.
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cause - no money\neffect - less money because of loss of job\n\nWhat Caused the Great Depression?\n\nThere are several explanations for what happened but the most obvious conclusion is that it was the confluence of several shortsighted and commiserating factors. Three main themes emerge: historical factors, central bank policies, and political decision making. For the purposes of this discussion the focus will be on the United States.\n\n \n\nThe US in the 1920's: Buying into the Boom\n\n \n\nThe 1929 stock market crash marked the beginning of the Depression. Prior to the crash the stock market had been an important source of funding for industry; thus the crash itself was a contributing factor to the downturn as well as a harbinger of things to come. Since stock prices are based on estimates of future earnings potential, the stock market performance of the 1920's tells a story of runaway optimism for the future. When it peaked a few weeks before the crash, The Dow Jones had risen 597% over the previous 8 years. It was soon to become a symbol of runaway pessimism.\n\nThe freeing of capital from government use to commercial use following World War I caused commodity prices to inflate. In 1920, Ben Strong of the US Federal Reserve Bank of New York raised interest rates sharply to prevent inflation. This caused a recession and the stock market to fall. Once hard assets like commodities and real estate were no longer rising in price, money began to pour into stocks and bonds. The Dow started climbing from its low at 63.90 in 1921 and rose 150% over the four years to 1925. \n\n \n\nAccording to Ron Chernow, in "The House of Morgan", It was in 1925 that Ben Strong made a secret commitment to Montague Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, to help England reinstate the Gold Standard. This action would later be shown to have undermined the British economy but the Pound had been the main medium of international exchange at that time and it was felt to be in everyone's interest to have it be exchangeable for gold. With moral support from the US Treasury, Strong chose to help strengthen the value of the Pound by depressing US interest rates. This depressed the value of the US Dollar and caused the already robust economy to boom. \n\nIt was suddenly cheaper to borrow money to invest in the stock market (called margin investing). Since the Dow had risen steadily since 1921, "small investors leapt giddily into the stock market in large numbers". The margin requirement at that time was only 10%, meaning you could buy $10,000 worth of stock with only $1,000 down, borrowing the rest. With artificially low interest rates and a booming economy people and companies were more apt than ever to invest in grandiose business expansions and over-priced stocks. Mergers and acquisitions soared. \n\nIn 1927, Britain ran into trouble with its gold standard again and Ben Strong lowered US interest rates in sympathy for a second time. This ignited the boom into the speculative frenzy that brought the market to its peak on September 3, 1929. It was like pouring gasoline onto a fire - the flames rose up, no lasting fuel was added, but the economy sure looked great. \n\nBen Strong died in October 1928. George Harrison, his successor immediately lobbied for higher interest rates to cool the speculative fervor. Rates were finally raised 1% in August of 1929, but by then it was way too late. The Dow peaked at 381.17. \n\nThe market and the economy had buoyed itself from one source of hope to the next for a whole decade. First it was the end of war-related inflation and booming exports for war reparations, next artificially low interest rates in 1925 and 1927 and booming exports due to a reduced value of the Dollar vs. the Pound. There were major tax reductions instituted by the Republicans under Hoover and finally in June of 1929 an international accord was struck with the Germans (albeit short-lived) over the financing of war rep
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i think the biggest threat in america is stupidity.  there are just so many stupid people in this country and its whats causing so many problems.  if people actually cared more about their lives and their education, instead of trying to be cool and popular and not care about anything but marrying into money and stop being lazy and actually TRY to learn something, our country would be MUCH better off.