How did WWI and the Great Depression effectively bring an end to the practices of classic liberalism?
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised to get the US out of the great depression by creating a whole new unconstitutional bureaucratic system of government, the New Deal.  This brought about welfare, and demolished our limited, Constitutional government.  That Constitutionalism was being eaten away at before, but this was a very big part of doing away with the Founder's original intents.\n\nWWII also brought severe federal government restrictions on the economy, and I think price controls.  That further helped in the erosion of the original, limited federal government.
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Actually, during the Great Depression, many of the rich got richer, and the poor got poorer.  The entire political system of the US was in turmoil.  The Great Depression ushed in an era of social responsibility, hence Social Security and Welfare.
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After Germany's defeat in world war one, then the great depression hit the world. As people lost a lot of money in the stock market, many went bankcrupt. In many countries, those least affected were the money lenders, who most people turned to sell their jewellery and expensive paintings and furniture - just to buy bread and potatos. The money lenders were mainly Jews.\n\nIn Russia, at this time the Czar (king of the country) would routinely arrest the jews and made them suffer just becuse they were rich - this was just to get at their riches. These were called pogroms - another word would be rape and ethnic cleansing...\n\nOf course - I am not arguing whether these riches were made honestly or not, but often people are jealous of others who are doing well while you seem to be losing everything. I guess it human nature...\n\nIn Germany, after the war, things were really bad, they had to pay compensation to many countries for the war damage (called war reparations). This cost so much that the economy was doing really badly. The Germans felt that they were superior than everyone (scientifically and culturally) and hated the fact that they had to pay so much money to other countries.\n\nHitler came onto the scene - with forceful speeches about what a great country Germany was, without focussing on why they were really defeated in the first war, they claimed that - "since we are superior than everone we must have lost the war because we were sabotaged from within our borders - who did this evil thing - must be the jews - they anyway have strange customs and are so rich..." etc\n\nSo once they had a scapegoat, it helped unify the nationalist and made them begin the war mchinery. the rearming of Germany actually reduced unemployment - so actually people were feeling things were getting better.\n\nThen once Germany was war-ready, they launched the war...the rest is word war II and the holocaust...\n\nThe holocaust was a product of a bureaucratic tragedy that emerged from the discussion of the "final solution" as more and more jews were arrested in occupied countries. The Aryan story was just an attempt to unify the Germanic people and nordi people against everyone else, when in fact the slavs and present day Indians are more Aryan than the Germanic peoples, since Aryan people first emerged from the Central Asian steppes (near Mongolia).\n\nInterestingly Hitler's grand mother was a jew. So its quite clear that Hitler was quite insane. I mean its like klling your own family.
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Here's a little info: The Great Society was founded by LB Johnson and based loosely on Roosevelt's New Deal-- The New Deal goals were the three R's:Reform, recovery, and relief, while the goal of the Great Society was to end poverty and racial injustice (this was a form of reforming, recovering and relieving society of the poverty and discrimination)... The social and political legacy of the Great Society is that it started the end of discrimination (Voting Rights Act, etc) and less poverty; the New Deal's legacy was that it helped to end the depression (poverty). As for origins, both were implanted at times of depression(New Deal) and poverty(Great Society).... ok done! that was a good review for my US quiz!
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i think that you are forgetting that our president at the time, FDR, had some of the most liberal legislation in our nation's history passed while he was in office. Learn you history!
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I'd say WWI, after WWII the soviets and Americans were pretty much at eachother's throats and the advent of the atomic age ensured heightened levels of paranoia from all sides now that a single bomber could level a city.\n\nAfter WWI things could have gone a lot better if the allied powers weren't so harsh on germany (but that goes back to the french's stupidity during the napoleonic wars, but I digress) and if the stock market hadn't crashed hitler would have had a much harder time coming to power.
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New Deal provided many big government projects that created millions of jobs after the Great Depression in the US.  Laissez Faire is just a way of letting business work with less government regulations.
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The New Deal during the Roosevelt Administration help to bring the USA out of the Great Depression.  It was a large public works programs that created millions of jobs that offered jobs to unemployed Americans.
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Liberalism made its way as a political ideology after the french revolution. It is focused upon change and that every one are equal and has equal rights.
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1. Racial tension amongst soldiers, despite that military units of different race were not mixed.\n\n2. "Liberal" loss of support for the war.\n\n3. Cut exports/imports via railways; loss of major agriculture; (all due to Southern possession).\n\n4. Poor military leaders.
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Liberal is the abolition of  regulation so that a person could do what he wants.
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the encroachment of liberalism
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Sorry Holly, Liberalism is a failed ideology.  It has been tried in Europe for the past 50 years and has failed.  Most Western European counties are economically stagnant, except for the ones that are in the process of or have reversed their socialized systems.\n\nTheir economies have only stayed stable as long as they have because they have NOT had to spend a dime on defense for the last 50 years.  The US has protected them.  If the US dissolved NATO, and Europe actually had to defend itself.  Every European county would go into a deep recession.
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Because it didn't work.  Liberal=government control, deprives people of freedom and controlled economics loses to free markets every time.
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It would be civil war, of course.  Liberals can rationalize anything, as long as the target is another American.\n\nEDIT:  Today's liberals are very far removed from FDR.  As to the Revolutionary War statement, that lacks credibility entirely.
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The FDR revolution.  Introduced Marxism into American Government. via welfare, graduated tax, confiscation of private gold reserves
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Since there is no answer to this statement, could you choose me as best answer and thus give me 10pts, please?\n\nBy the way, there is no such thing as Liberatism, i think you meant Liberalism?