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Franklin Roosevelt's Approach to Security
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confidence, 1933, 1999, 1929, commercial, high, Tennessee, unemployment, intervention, Banking, deteriorated, totalitarianism, collective, Atlantic, Labor, public, 1942, terror, Japan, poverty, future, scale
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during his four-term presidency, FDR had to face security threats unequaled in           
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         Wall Street crash
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the Great Depression
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very          unemployment
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               affecting millions of people
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abroad there was the rise of                               
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         inaugural address
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"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified              which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
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                     was the first step in building a collective sense of security
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The New Deal
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authorized large scale                          in economic management, social welfare, and industrial policy
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modernize the country
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stabilize the financial sector
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reduce unemployment through              works
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give workers higher wages and better working conditions
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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                   Valley Authority
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National Industrial Recovery Act
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Works Progress Administration
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1933                Act
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separated                      and investment banking activities
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to protect the consumer
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stood until its repeal in         
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National            Relations Act
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1935 Social Security Act
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guaranteed pensions for millions of Americans
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                         insurance
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care for dependent children and disabled
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1939 situation in Europe                          rapidly
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           was expanding its influence
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even before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt had a view of the role of the United States
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August 1941 Declaration of the                  Charter
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England and the United States
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an affirmation of certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they based their hopes for a better              for the world
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         foundation of the United Nations
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Franklin's Good Neighbor approach to Latin America led to
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1948 Organization of American States
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vision was to build a safe, post-war international order so that another world war could be prevented
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security
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                     security at international level
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social security at the national level

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