{"id":3788,"date":"2014-09-08T22:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2014-09-08T22:42:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T02:42:32","slug":"three-new-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/09\/08\/three-new-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Three New Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early 1930s, Germany, Italy, and the United States endured a period of economic downturn known as the Great Depression. \u00a0These three countries took separate roads toward recovery. \u00a0However, in the book,\u00a0Three New Deals, W<\/em>olfgang Busch argues that the United States may have had more in common with the National Socialists in Germany and the Fascists in Italy.<\/p>\n

In Chapter One of his book, Wolfgang Schivelbush gives a\u00a0detailed narrative\u00a0about Nazi Germanys’ and Fascist Italy’s perspective on\u00a0Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. \u00a0Schivelbush notes that\u00a0in\u00a0the first half of the 1930s, Germany and Italy held a\u00a0positive position on\u00a0Roosevelt and his new deal. \u00a0Nazi Germany, according to Schivelbush, believed the beginnings of the new deal echoed their “Revolutionary Program”.(Schivelbush 18). \u00a0 Though FDR did adapt some socialist ideas in his policies, FDR made sure that these ideas were in line with American values and to help quell any concerns over the direction of American democracy. \u00a0While intrigued occurred in Germany over FDRs policies, Facists in Italy took interest in FDR and his policies. \u00a0Benito Mussolini stated in his book that “The Appeal to the decisiveness and masculine sobriety of the nation’s youth, with which Roosevelt here calls his readers to battle, is reminicent of the ways and means by which Fascism awakened the Italian people”.(Mussolini quote in Schivelbush’s\u00a0Three New Deals,\u00a0<\/em>23). \u00a0Mussolini praised FDR as a strong man\u00a0who was able to take grasp of power in the United States and move it in a fascist friendly direction.<\/p>\n

At home,\u00a0the National Socialist and Fascist comparisons helped give FDR negative attention, particularly from his political opponents. \u00a0Political and civilian opponents believed \u00a0that FDR attempted to\u00a0not only destroy civil liberties and gain more constitutional power, but also establish friendships with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. \u00a0Though Constitutional powers were never completely destroyed and an alliance with Italy and Germany never happened, FDR did push against these boundaries so that he could attempt to get the\u00a0United States get back on its feet.<\/p>\n

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In the early 1930s, Germany, Italy, and the United States endured a period of economic downturn known as the Great Depression. \u00a0These three countries took separate roads toward recovery. \u00a0However, in the book,\u00a0Three New Deals, Wolfgang Busch argues that the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51180],"tags":[80454,104504,94239,104503,71119],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-fascism","tag-franklin-roosevelt","tag-national-socialism","tag-three-new-deals","tag-wolfgang-schivelbusch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}